Shenhao started after the college entrance examination

Zhao Xingguo looked at the puzzled An Liang with relief, because the question raised by An Liang also expressed an attitude, that is, An Liang would not compete by unfair means.

Otherwise, with the help of Tianshang Baiyujing Club, plus the connections of cold chain transportation projects and overseas agricultural planting projects, who can stop An Liang from competing unfairly?

Even if it is the white gloves arranged by the first layer of the imperial capital circle, they must first choose to give in and then sit down for friendly consultation and exchange.

However, Zhao Xingguo was naturally very relieved that An Liang had such a strong background and network of relationships, but he did not even think of relying on these forces to compete unfairly, but thought of fair competition.

"In fact, you can choose to be unfair." Zhao Xingguo responded calmly.

Zhao Xingguo is not a pedantic person!

In the field of university canteen services, Zhao Xingguo allowed An Liang to compete by unfair means. After all, there is a terrible situation of calling a zebra a zebra in the current university canteen services.

Such a bad situation made Zhao Xingguo very unhappy, but it was not convenient for him to take action directly.

Because the current university canteen service providers naturally have relationships, otherwise how could they enter the field of university canteen services?

"Let me show you a document first." Zhao Xingguo stood up and walked to the desk, then took out a brown paper bag from the desk drawer and returned to the tea table.

"Dongliang, you also follow and take a look." Zhao Xingguo took out two documents from the brown paper bag and handed them to An Liang and Zhao Dongliang respectively.

An Liang took it and looked at it. This document introduced the relevant situation in the field of university canteen services.

Currently, Xiaguo has more than 3,000 universities, including 1,275 undergraduate colleges, 1,545 junior colleges, and more than 250 other types of colleges.

Undergraduate and junior colleges have more than 45 million college students, which is a huge user group.

There are quite a lot of companies in the field of university canteen services, with a total number of more than 100, but most of them are small companies that only serve local and surrounding universities.

Only one company called Xiasu Catering Group has reached the giant level. It serves more than 700 universities, and its comprehensive annual turnover in 2020 is almost close to that of the well-known chain catering company Haidilao.

Haidilao's annual turnover reached 28.6 billion in 2020, which is a very impressive number!

Xiasu Catering Group's annual turnover in 2020 also reached 26 billion, only slightly less than Haidilao.

However, Haidilao is a legend in the catering industry. Even if you have never eaten Haidilao, there should be few people who have not heard of Haidilao.

But what is Xiasu Catering Group?

I am afraid that practitioners in the catering industry have hardly heard of it, right?

After all, Xiasu Catering Group mainly serves university canteens and has no direct connection with ordinary consumers.There is no contact with college students.

After all, for college students, they think that the catering services provided by the college canteen are provided by the college canteen, and they never thought that there are catering service companies behind the college canteen.

So a giant catering company with an annual turnover close to Haidilao is actually invisible and almost unknown to the outside world.

"The net profit of this Xiasu Catering Group last year was 12.66 billion." An Liang saw the net profit data of Xiasu Catering Group.

If this document was not provided by Zhao Xingguo, An Liang would have suspected that someone had counted the data wrong, not 12.66 billion, but 1.266 billion.

For people who don't understand the catering industry, they always think that the profit margin of catering is very high, at least more than 50%, after all, the cost of the catering industry is only the cost of ingredients.

However, this is not the case.

For chain catering industries like Haidilao, the profit margin is actually very low, and even a slight carelessness may lead to losses.

After all, in addition to the cost of ingredients, the catering industry also has tax costs, human resource costs, and operating costs, which are costs that cannot be ignored.

Haidilao's turnover in 2020 was as high as 28.6 billion, but the actual net profit was only 309 million, and the net profit margin was only 1.08%.

Perhaps someone said that such a net profit margin is too low, even lower than the interest on bank fixed deposits, so it is better to invest the money in the bank to earn interest.

At first glance, there is no problem with this logic, because Haidilao's net profit margin is indeed too low.

However, this idea actually has a big problem!

Haidilao's annual turnover is the funds obtained from operating income, not that Haidilao itself has so much funds, which means that Haidilao is simply impossible to send this money to the bank to earn the interest on fixed deposits.

Only when Haidilao is in operation can it obtain this operating income and create net profit.

If Haidilao is not in operation, there will be no operating income, let alone net profit.

Comparing Haidilao's net profit with the bank's fixed deposit interest rate is a misleading comparison, so it cannot be compared in this way. .