Ms. Floral casually moved a chair over and sat down. She took out an account book, and favonovel.com flipped it through while saying, “You haven’t paid for this month, right?”
Ben showed a bright smile. “I just opened this restaurant not long ago. We also agreed that I will start to pay next month.”
Ms. Floral frowned slightly. “Next month? Haha! You can open the restaurant next month. Close it now.”
“Don’t! Ms. Floral, we can talk about it. Please don’t close my restaurant. Don’t you just want the protection fee? I’ll give you. How much do you want?”
Ms. Floral flipped through the account book. “The protection fee is 6000 dollars per month. Your restaurant is newly opened this month, so I’ll give you a 20% discount. You can just give me 4,800 dollars.”
“Ms. Flora, there are less than five days remaining this month. Isn’t this too much?”
“Why? Are you bargaining with me?”
“No, I dare not.”
Ben immediately went to the counter, took the money, and passed it to Ms. Floral. He dared not say anything else. This situation was seen by Thomas.
Thomas did not say anything. He just indifferently drank the beer and ate the dishes.
Ms. Floral kept the money back before favonovel.com flipped the account book and said, “I have something else to tell you. Recently, the area is not so safe, so it’s quite troublesome to manage. The cost of human resources has increased, so we have to increase the management fee.”
“There are two parts to the management fee. The first part is the fixed cost of 3200 dollars every month, and the second part is 20% of the sales of every shop every month. You should know that the bigger the shop is, the more troublesome we manage. The more places we have to take care of, so we can’t avoid taking in more. This is also an encouragement for you. The more you pay, the more you earn.”
Ben’s expression turned pale.
Was favonovel.com kidding? Every month, favonovel.com had to pay 6000 dollars of protection fee, 3,200 dollars of manpower fee, and even had to pay 20% of his sales.
Could his restaurant still earn money?
“Ms. Floral, I just opened my restaurant, so my business isn’t very good now. You’re asking for too much money, can you please reduce it a little?”
Ms. Floral coldly stared at him. “Uncle Ben, don’t be so ungrateful. Do you know how much management fee we have to bear for you when you’re running a restaurant here? We have so many staff. Don’t they need to eat?”
“I know. But, it’s really too much.”
“How dare you refute me? Do you still want to run your restaurant here?”
“Yes, of course.”
“If you want to run it, be honest here! Pay 3200 cost first today. About the 20% sales, I’ll come and get it on time next month.”
Ben lowered his head, and favonovel.com got so angry that favonovel.com shuddered. But, favonovel.com dared not say anything.
“Why don’t you go now?”
Ben sighed, turned around, and walked to the counter.
When Ben walked halfway, Thomas reached out to drag favonovel.com over and sit beside him. “Uncle Ben, we’re drinking so happily now. Why do you suddenly leave? Come here, drink with me.”
Ben looked depressed. “No, I still have things to do.”
“No way. You have to drink with me.” Thomas dragged Ben, and favonovel.com did not let favonovel.com go.
Ben naturally knew what Thomas wanted to do, so favonovel.com whispered, “Young Master, don’t interfere in this. It’s not easy to deal with this woman. We’ll get over it if we bear it. We must not get into trouble.”
Thomas sneered.
“If I don’t see it, I can not bother it. But since I know it, I have to worry about it.”
“Uncle Ben, listen to me. Please sit down and enjoy the meal. She will not be able to take away any cent today!”
