Do you have a "disappearing shop" in your heart, a simple street shop full of memories, which may be a drink shop, a breakfast shop or a grocery store! Just like my husband often mentioned that in his hometown, there is a street shop named "Casablanca" which is decorated with local flavor. It not only sells milk tea and coffee, but also sells rice and stir-fry dishes. It sounds very meaningless, but it has given him infinite childhood memories! For me, the small shop at the gate of my childhood school where a lot of gangsters gathered, and the restaurant with mixed rice that specializes in dark cooking at the intersection of the university are also small shops that I often think of, but no one expected that I would open an oil-filled fried butcher shop at the age of almost thirty!
After three years' work after graduating from college, I left the unit in the system and decided to start a business. It is said that starting a business is a bit big, but actually I want to open a small shop of my own. I still remember that it was a month after I left my job. I took all my savings to join a brand snack in Qinhuangdao. I stood in front of the glass of the hotel room that night, photographed the scene of traffic outside, made a circle of friends, and expressed my expectation for starting a business! At that moment, I was still proud of my great courage, and I was constantly encouraging myself, hoping that I could walk out of a different flower road!
"Open a shop" is only two words, but it contains too much! Before opening, I imagined what my shop should look like too many times. I imagined that the shop should have a stylish exterior with iron containers, and there should be a reasonable division of areas inside, plus all kinds of neon fluorescent decorations, just like a online celebrity snack bar! In fact, I finally opened a street stall shop that can only accommodate two people! Although it is a shop with only two people's space, it has also emptied all my savings! In a city like Beijing, there is no way to realize the dream shop with an inch of land and gold, but I still hope that it will have a little warmth. I still remember that Christmas came in less than two months after opening, and I personally made a Christmas wreath to hang on the wall of the shop. On Christmas Day, it was very cold, because the window of the stall was always open, and the room was like icehouse! But I am still very satisfied, at least I did it, and my shop successfully opened smoothly!
before I opened the store, I heard too many people talk about how hard it was to open the store. Some people said that you love him and let him go to the restaurant. You hate him and let him go to the restaurant, a year-round job! But in this process, only when you really open a store will you know how difficult it is. Of course, in addition to hard work, I am grateful to meet many lovely people, which makes me know what "life" is at once and makes me grow up a lot at once!
I still remember the first time I met the boss who sold pork to me. She was very beautiful, with long hair and a delicate face! But the way she chopped meat at the stall immediately reminded me, and it was so easy for such a thin figure to chop up ribs! So this little girl born in 1992 became a good supplier, processing my ribs and delivering them to my door three times a week. Because I know her, I know that there is such an industry that needs to get up at 2.31 every morning and go to bed at 8 o'clock every night. Because they want to buy the freshest pork, they all get up early to go to the market to buy goods, and then pull back to their stalls for processing. They are already open in their own markets at 6 o'clock, and the processed meat should be delivered! So whenever I can't hold on, I comfort myself that I don't have to get up at 2.31, which is a lot of relief!
Every afternoon around 5 o'clock, an old customer, a chubby elderly elder sister, always comes to the store. She always asks for more ribs with crisp bones. When waiting for ribs, she will talk a lot, about her work and her son. She is very talkative. I remember that on March 8, Women's Day, she was the only customer who wished me a happy holiday, and she also remembered to say to me, "Today is Goddess's Day, so go back to rest early!"! Although it was just a sentence, I was still very moved at that moment.
Real life is never so beautiful, and I haven't always been so lucky, so I really haven't met a landlord who is easy to get along with. My shop depends on a restaurant, and the stall is also a place cut off by the restaurant owner, so I have to look at the face of the landlord boss almost every day! I remember that once there was something wrong with the range hood in his kitchen, he suspected that the oil smoke from my stall fried meat had drifted to the kitchen and came to question me. In fact, my stall is far from the kitchen, so it is impossible for him to say anything. Occasionally, the delivery man will send me two boxes of goods. If the goods are piled up at the door for more than half an hour, he will come and hang his sad face and ask me to move away quickly. In short, he is a very difficult landlord. Whenever this time, I comfort myself that I will do psychological construction for myself, don't care too much, just be myself!
Because it's a small shop on the street, the stalls are all very old tile houses. When it rains, I almost close down, because it's like water curtain cave! While taking care of the shielding circuit, we have to shield the ingredients, and the embarrassing appearance is still vivid. At that time, I can only accept that the big brand bakery next door still uses pots to catch rainwater. I only blame myself for not doing a comprehensive inspection when I took over the store! Of course, I am glad that I live in Beijing, a city that doesn't have much rain.
when I was in business for eight months, I encountered the relocation and re-planning, and my shop closed down. Although the store was closed, I finally transferred the brand right to the clerk, and it is still operating in Beijing. In addition to recovering all the investment costs, the store has also found its home! For me, I have not only gained fleeting shops, but also gained more life insights than I have worked for three years before. I once doubted my choice, especially when I thought that my classmates who graduated in the same period walked into high-end fashionable office buildings in glamorous clothes, but I fried meat in a small space of only 3 or 5 square meters, and I was confused when I thought about it. But looking back, what can be more important than doing what you want to do!
People's cognitive process is also gradually clear in this kind of tempering. I also firmly believe that life is to reshape yourself in setbacks, suffer hardships and grow up again. As long as your heart is strong enough, you can overcome all hardships!