While waiting, she didnât dare to look up. Today was too embarrassing. She was just a caregiver. If the client she served hadnât insisted on eating here, she would have definitely turned around and left.
Lately, customers have been relatively stable, with lunchtime generally keeping to around ten people. Business is better in the evening, serving three kinds of porridge, each in a small pot, usually completely sold out.
Lin Wan usually puts the dayâs earnings into the cross-body bag she made herself and returns home with Mom. Then she takes out the money and counts it penny by penny.
Calculating todayâs revenue.
Earned nine yuan and six dimes at the morning market, and the restaurantâs revenue was considerable today, totaling thirty-two yuan and eight dimes.
After subtracting costs of twelve yuan and three dimes, the net profit today was twenty yuan and five dimes. Various tickets were also obtained, especially food tickets and fabric tickets.
When Liang Hongmei came back after handling the leftover meat, she saw her daughter laughing silly over there.
"Why are you laughing so silly? Is today better than the previous days?"
"Mom, today weâve earned as much as the previous days combined."
"The main thing is that you had a good idea today, bringing quite a few people to the restaurant."
"Yes, I didnât expect it. Tomorrow weâll continue with special dishes. At this rate, the annual income should be considerable. By the end of the year, who knows, maybe we can even buy a house here."
"What house? Iâm just hoping to earn enough to support you all till youâre settled down. I donât ask for anything else." Liang Hongmeiâs biggest fear was trouble, being new here and just the two of them.
"Mom, donât worry. Weâll just have to be careful." Lin Wan wanted to say everything would be fine, but she knew, in this era, society was unstable, with many people with connections.
After making money today, Liang Hongmei rarely put down her book and took out the money earned from a box these past few days, counting it.
After more than a week of operation, nearly a hundred was earned. At this rate, the costs spent will be recovered within a month.
The mother and daughter were so happy and excited that they laughed all night.
Early the next morning, before the sky lightened, Liang Hongmei got up to prepare food and went to the morning market.
Because there was no time to wash clothes during the day, Lin Wan got up early every day to do laundry, before helping Mom sell food at the market.
Finishing shopping for food didnât delay buying vegetables needed for the restaurant today either.
"Big sis, do you want these cucumbers? This is all thatâs left. You can have them for fifty cents," said the vendor brother who knew Lin Wan buys a lot of vegetables daily.
As Lin Wan passed his stall, he quickly promoted, "Garden-end cucumbers, just a bit unsightly."
Lin Wan glanced at a pile of crooked cucumbers on his stall, some with big heads and skinny tails, others shrunk tiny and thin; the appearance was indeed not great.
Looks like there are seven or eight jin of cucumbers.
"Alright, big brother, Iâll take these cucumbers," Lin Wan didnât even think before agreeing.
"Great," the brother said, quickly finding an old woven bag to pack them for Lin Wan.
Summer vegetables are indeed cheap; come winter, theyâll be much more expensive.
Back at the store, Lin Wan quickly wrote out todayâs promotion card, adding a new item: free chilled side dishes with evening porridge.
Todayâs a rest day. Brother came to the restaurant early this morning.
Todayâs special dish was potato chicken chunks. As soon as lunch hit, people from the hospital came straight to their store. With brother around, the mother and daughter found it much easier.
Lin Wan didnât have to keep an eye on the front while also minding the back for dishwashing.
Around two in the afternoon, while the family of three was having a meal in the store, Lin Yinghui said to the two, "Why not hire a helper? That way, you wouldnât have to work so hard."