How much can entrepreneurship change a person?

My friend Lariva started a business, and her business scope has nothing to do with the current popular "blockchain" or even the fiery "internet plus" many years ago. What she is determined to do is a mala Tang restaurant.

Yes, a spicy hotpot restaurant that doesn't sound creative.

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In fact, about two years ago, Lariva and I started secretly planning our business plan. Almost every month or two, at the dinner table and after work, we will cheerfully explain our wonderful idea to each other: "renting a greenhouse to grow vegetables in Qingpu will greatly reduce the organic market." "The advertising company is good, the assets are light and the profit rate is high."

These heated discussions about starting a business eventually stayed at the strategic stage and failed to be implemented.

Just when my entrepreneurial enthusiasm began to dissipate, two months ago, Lariva inadvertently revealed to me that her mala Tang shop was about to open.

What? My black question mark face.

"Do you want to open mala Tang?"

"Well, yes."

"Where is it?"

"Near Shanghai Circus City."

"How much is the capital investment?"

"Three hundred thousand."

Straighten the baby with a serious face to explain the reasons for choosing Mala Tang and the survey of the industry in the past six months. The tone is calm and down-to-earth, changing the previous exaggerated ups and downs and cadences.

I suddenly realized that this time, this guy was serious.

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I have known Lariva for four years. Four years ago, we were all the chief teachers of a summer camp. We watched the northwest desert together, experienced the joys and sorrows of "recovering the lost treasure" and "suppressing" forty Xiong Haizi, and were out-and-out revolutionary comrades.

In my memory, Lariva is heartless and unpretentious most of the time, like an idiot teenager who never knows the taste of sadness. But this time, she was uncharacteristically serious, which surprised me.

"I am not a serious person, but I am not a serious person."

This sentence is more appropriate when it is used on Rajiva.

It took only two weeks from renting the store to officially opening.

During this period, she and Xiao Liu completed a series of work, including: cooking skills training for franchisees, food safety assessment, store decoration, personnel recruitment, supplier negotiation, competing product analysis, channel development and so on. The efficiency is so high that colleagues are shocked and the competitors around them are frightened.

As her good friend, I naturally witnessed the whole process directly or indirectly through her drooling narration and frequent absence from team activities.

"The training place in Nanjing is far from the railway station, and there is a garbage dump on the road, which almost fainted!"

"Xiao Liu is catching live vegetables. Look at him wearing the clothes of a clerk and looking like a clerk in a mala Tang shop! "

"I think there is a SF transfer station next to the circus city. I plan to send them a bowl of mala Tang for free and do express delivery business. Only I can do such a thing. Xiaoliuqu must have thought it was poisoned. "

"This supplier is too expensive and can only be used as an emergency."

As always, I laughed and teased, but the topic changed from my tight-lipped boyfriend Mayday to a mala Tang shop on Lingshi Road.

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Entrepreneurship changes life and shapes personality.

A small mala Tang restaurant magically turned a funny girl into an old aunt who worried about trivial things in life, and also transformed the former two-dimensional boy.

Lariva's mysterious boyfriend, Xiao Liu, had never seen a real person before opening a shop. Only once face to face, through WeChat video. I greeted the video with the comfort and enthusiasm of my old mother. Xiao Liu shyly turned around and went straight to the bathroom in the distance, leaving me with a generous back.

Xiao Liu used to be a super otaku. He doesn't like traveling or doing housework. His only hobby is playing games. With a monthly income of several thousand yuan, most of his income is squandered on games. It is said that he once spent a lot of money on a mobile game and recharged nearly 20 thousand a month.

Who would have thought that it was such a shy post-90 s, and now, he can bite the bullet and greet those tall, black and blue men;

Such a person who has no concept of money actually starts to calculate every penny. Even in the dog days when there are no guests, he is willing to turn off the air conditioner and sweat like rain.

Such a person who hasn't suffered a little can persist in sleeping only for three or four hours every day during the renovation of the shop, so that he fell asleep while driving on the viaduct one day.

Life will live up to everyone who hears the chicken dance and fights for it.

Going hiking in Hangzhou last weekend, I was delighted to hear Lariva and Xiao Liu say that the take-away order in the store exceeded 100.

Unexpectedly, these two people who couldn't even make noodles in the past were able to run a small shop of less than 20 square meters, and the orders for eating and taking out were constant.

Well, Lariva and Xiao Liu, keep working hard. Target: Jing 'an No.1 Mala Tang Restaurant! Beat Aladdin! Beat Yang Guofu!