For hiring service staff, Wang Xiaoliang used the supermarket's old approach: hire two experienced workers, preferably pleasant-looking, then two pretty newcomers, pairing each veteran with a newcomer. This approach had worked at the supermarket back then. It was practical.
They had also settled on a network administrator. He knew hardware and networking, Luo Bisheng's old line of work. The two talked for twenty minutes at the interview, and Luo Bisheng slapped the table. "You're hired."
The people were in place, but the work wasn't over.
The paperwork.
The fire department's "Fire Safety Inspection Approval for Public Assembly Venues Before Use and Operation," the police's Special Industry Business License, the health department's Public Health Permit, the market regulator's business license... Each required a separate trip, yet they all depended on one another. Without one, another would grind to a halt.
Luo Bisheng made trip after trip.
Once he finished with one, he went to the next.
Fortunately, all the physical facilities had been built to code, and no department demanded any rework. Everything sent back involved paperwork problems: incorrectly filled forms, missing documents, stamps in the wrong places.
The first few times, Luo Bisheng was frustrated beyond belief. He went over and got turned away, then went again and got turned away again, until he wanted to slam the documents onto the counter. Later, he got smarter. Every time they sent something back, he photographed the comments and saved them on his phone, then went back and corrected each item before taking the complete set in again.
The people at the service counters all recognized him now.
Construction in the back courtyard, meanwhile, was moving along briskly.
Wang Xiaoliang and Xie Hui kept an eye on the schedule and specifically instructed the Construction Team to leave Second Mom Cafeteria as much