After so many years of doing catering, I have always thought that people who do not know how to do business, to do catering is actually very disadvantageous, unless the person is very rich, doing catering for others may be pocket money to play, this is another matter, but for most people who are doing catering, everyone is an ordinary person.
Catering is a very cash-flow industry, it can be said that it is real money spent. Just like I met a female boss who made light meals a few days ago, she used to do e-commerce and made some money in her early years, but now it's hard to do, so she thought of doing catering.
She told me that after she did catering, the biggest change is to become more and more critical, in the past, she spent money on her own, especially e-commerce will need to do promotion, she does promotion is crazy to throw money, but fortunately, she did e-commerce early, after throwing money also made money.
But she said that catering is different, everything needs money, and it is very unfriendly to novices, because from decoration, to equipment, to personnel, all kinds of matters are too cumbersome, and the water in each thing is very deep, even if it is the same equipment, the price difference will be very large.
She herself said that looking back now, she found that she was a wronged boss at the beginning, and she spent a bunch of unjustified money. In fact, many catering people are like this, they will experience a period from the early big hands to spend money, to the later things have to be dealt with, and the cost must be controlled. And as long as it is an old catering person, controlling costs is often their mantra.
This is why there will be more and more such strange things in the catering industry this year, because many are newbies, only concerned about whether they can open a store quickly, and never care whether they can make money, when they can return their capital, and when they really make money.
Just like a boss I knew before, he joined a store, and in the first month of opening, he said that he made twenty or thirty thousand, because I knew which brand he joined, and according to my understanding of that brand, it should be unlikely, so I asked him how to calculate it, and then he said.
It turned out that his so-called making money was just to remove the rent, utilities, labor and ingredients, and then the rest was earned by himself, but in fact, he completely misunderstood, the money he invested himself was not calculated, and later calculated, according to his current situation, it will take more than two years to return the capital.
That is, after more than two years, I got the money I spent back without interest, note that it was interest-free, and then the money earned after two and a half years was the real money. But in fact, many people do not think about how the market will change in one year, what will happen in two years, whether the business will still be stable, etc.
Many people don't know how much they lost in total even if their stores closed down in the end, so people who don't know how to do business are actually very loss-making to do catering, what do you say?