RDD 87

RDD 87

"By the way, Sean do you know someone who I can hire? I feel like the business is booming and I need another worker."

"Is that so? How much are you going to pay him?"

"300 pesos per day."

"Really? That's a lot. Are you sure you're not going to get bankrupt? Keith, that's not how to do business."

"Brother, it's unfair to pay them with a small salary," I replied.

"Small salary? Keith the minimum wage set by the government of Cavite is 220 pesos per day. Last two years ago, it was 200 pesos. It's not unfair at all."

"..."

I didn't expect that the minimum salary was fucking small! 220 pesos? You got to be kidding me!

Considering that Cavite was not an A-Class province, that was probably right. Because in Manila, the minimum wage was 300 pesos.

In fact, I asked Santiago to work with me for 320 pesos and he happily agreed. He said that it was two days' worth of salary. He was not lying.

"Okay. I know someone who can work with you. He will go to this shop tomorrow."

"Thanks, Sean."

"Now, give me another burger."

He pulled out a 1 thousand bill from his wallet.

"I realized that your daughter is holding a 1 thousand bill, what's with that?"

"Ah, Jeremy gave it to them."

"What? Why didn't you tell me? I can't lose just like that."

I just shrugged. I have my reason why I didn't want to tell him.

"Sophia and Roman. This is my gift for you guys."

Sean gave them two thousand pesos each.

"Thanks, Uncle!"

"Hehe, of course, I'm not a cheapskate!'

Seeing Sean's mocking smile, Jeremy frowned and pulled out his wallet.

"Sean, Jeremy, stop what you're going to do. I don't want my kids to receive any more money from you!"

I told them seriously and my brothers decided to end their feud before it started.

"... Tch."

I heard clicking his tongue but I disregarded him. Honestly, I didn't know why he was eager for such a huge amount of money.

While we were bantering, Penelope and Mari became close friends. They started talking about their lives... I was surprised that Penelope quickly lost her shyness.

After our break time was over, my brothers decided to bid farewell.

"See you next time. Thank you for visiting us."

"Hm." Jeremy nodded.

"I'll bring huge gifts for the kids next time," Sean responded.

"Me too! I like Sophia, she's cute." Mari Mar smiled.

After visiting our shop, my two brothers bid farewell. They were both busy despite acting chill. I appreciate the fact they set aside their schedule just to visit the first-day opening of my shop.

Thankfully, they didn't cause a ruckus. Sophia would use her tears to control them. My two brothers could never show anything improper when she was in front of them.

"Are you going to stay?"

I asked my wife.

"Well, looks like you really need my help."

She giggled and wiped my forehead. We already wore new T-shirts but it was still sweaty because of the sunny weather.

Our business restarted with the help of my wife.

Roman was responsible for looking at Sophia to make sure that she won't do something bad.

Just like I expected, the workers started showing up and ordered burgers.

This time, the one who was using the cash register was my wife.

Santiago and I were left on cooking the burgers. The kitchen was huge and two people could fit in without a problem.

While Santiago was cooking the patties, I was responsible for preparing the other ingredients. Because of this, our job became much more efficient.

"Thank you for buying!"

Penelope smiled at the customers who received their orders.

We didn't use plastic bags here. We used paper bags to add novelty to our shop. To make sure that we didn't look like a normal burger shop, I decided to make things a bit different.

Paper packaging!

Besides, it's environmentally friendly.

Time slowly passed.

"I'm sir... All of our patties were sold."

Penelope apologized to the customers.

"What?"

"You can visit us tomorrow."

"I will definitely! It's good I already ate twice, or else I will be disappointed. See you tomorrow then!"

Some of the people who were waiting in line were disappointed when they realized that the burgers were sold out.

"... It's still 2:45 pm. It's too early."

I muttered and wiped my face. Our 500 burgers were gone just like that!

"... Let's close the shop."

Penelope smiled at me and started taking out the money from the cash register.

"Okay."

With the help of Santiago, we closed the shop so that the customers would realize that we are already done for today.

"Let's see."

I turned on the lights and sat down. Constantly moving around with no rest was definitely exhausting.

Thankfully, I consumed an Energy Pill today.

"4,689... 5,852... 6,273... 7,580!"

Just like we expected, the money we got was around 7,500 pesos. Of course the few add-ons might be because of the money I used first to give them change.

"Next week, I will try to sell cold drinks too!"

I grinned.

"You didn't buy drinks today?" My wife looked at me.

"... I forgot." I scratched my head.

"Anyway, it's a good thing that we sold all of our burgers today!"

Even Santiago was smiling ear to ear.

To make it better, there were still bread, lettuce, and tomatoes that we could use tomorrow.

But to make sure that we will not have fewer ingredients, I will buy them tomorrow as well.

Let's make it clear, I spent 3000 pesos on the ingredients and my profit was 4500 pesos... It was actually amazing. I didn't even know how that happened. I'm too stupid with math. Never bothered learning it.

All we just did was mold the burger patties using the precision scale that Penelope gave us. Perhaps that was the reason why 30-kilogram cow meat+flour+seasonings became 500 burger patties. Haha, I don't know!