As for Pei Qian, he was currently resisting the urge to change the location.
The more Liang Qingfan explained, the stronger this urge became.
This location was far too good!
Pei Qian could almost envision the store packed with people after it opened.
If they changed to another location, or slightly rearranged the functions of these three floors, could that change this fate?
But Pei Qian ultimately held back.
Because judging from Liang Qingfan’s animated expression as he spoke, he had clearly put a lot of effort into this experience store.
Pei Qian had told him to take full responsibility, and if he changed his mind now, causing all of Liang Qingfan’s hard work to go to waste, it would be too heartless.
Moreover, this pursuit of perfection would also drive the overall cost of the experience store extremely high, such as the inset frosted white lights Liang Qingfan had specially ordered, and the custom-made long tables in the digital zone that integrated all the wiring—all very expensive.
Whether the experience store would make money or not was beside the point; spending money was certainly unavoidable.
So after comprehensive consideration, Pei Qian still held back, only glancing at Tian Mo again, hoping he could step up and diligently fulfill his duty as a salesperson to discourage customers.
Tian Mo returned Mr. Pei’s look with an extremely determined gaze, as if saying: I definitely won’t let you down!
…
Since most areas still needed a few days to be fully set up, there wasn’t much more to see. After walking around, everyone came to the dining zone on the top floor.
This area was already mostly set up, with the entire dining zone basically divided into three parts.
The outermost area was the snack and beverage section, mainly for vendors from the Snack Market to move in. The position was relatively external, making it convenient for customers who didn’t want to eat inside but just wanted to buy some snacks or drinks.
A bit further in was the affordable dining area, featuring items from Slackin’ Delivery and Food Harmony, with reasonable prices and good taste.
The innermost area near the glass curtain wall had the best view and was the high-end dining section, adopting the model of Nameless Restaurant, with some master chefs transferred from there. Of course, they would continue to recruit excellent chefs from all over the country to fill the gaps.
The entire dining area was spacious, bright, and clean. Although the overall style remained minimalist, the dining tables, chairs, and other arrangements gave it a more homely atmosphere, similar in effect to many high-end revolving restaurants on building rooftops.
Everyone was a bit tired after walking around for so long, especially Liang Qingfan, who had been explaining nonstop and now felt somewhat thirsty.
So they found a table to sit down and ordered drinks.
Liang Qingfan asked, “Mr. Pei, how’s the experience store arrangement? It should be quite in line with your previous requirements, right?”
Pei Qian fell silent.
How to put this…
The level of spending certainly met his requirements. But the location, the effect achieved by all that spending, and future expectations… all completely failed to meet his requirements!
But things were as they were—what more could be said?
Pei Qian could only nod: “Hmm, it’s about right.”
“But… think carefully, are there no other areas where we could spend a bit more money?”
Liang Qingfan was taken aback: “Other areas to spend more money? I don’t think… there are any left?”
He couldn’t think of anything at the moment.
Since he had finalized all the details of the entire experience store, including the ceiling lights and customized tables and cabinets in the store, no expense had been spared where money needed to be spent.
So when Mr. Pei asked if there were any other places to spend money, Liang Qingfan couldn’t come up with anything.
Pei Qian was somewhat disappointed: “Oh? Really nothing?”
Actually, Pei Qian himself didn’t know where else to spend money; he just asked out of a “try everything” mentality.
The main issue was that the experience store was already in such a great location, yet they hadn’t spent much money due to the mall waiving a large sum of rent, which made Pei Qian feel very dissatisfied.
He needed to spend more to feel at ease!
Liang Qingfan was also confused. He looked at Tian Mo and Zhuang Dong, who both had bewildered expressions.
Clearly, everyone thought Mr. Pei had spotted a problem but was deliberately being mysterious, letting them figure it out themselves.
This was to cultivate their observation and insight.
Zhuang Dong suddenly brightened, saying, “Mr. Pei, is it that we’re missing a billboard?”
“I see other stores have their large logos displayed outside, allowing customers to see them from far away. But our glass curtain wall is bare on the outside with nothing on it. We should put a huge Tenda logo up there.”
Pei Qian was slightly pleased and nodded slightly, but then shook his head slightly.
He hadn’t expected Zhuang Dong to be the first to come up with an idea.
But thinking about it carefully, although what Zhuang Dong suggested was something the experience store currently lacked, the problem was that it wouldn’t cost much money!
Having a giant custom Tenda logo placed on the curtain wall, even including the crane rental fee, how much could that cost?
It would be a drop in the bucket.
Seeing Mr. Pei’s reaction, Tian Mo’s brain worked rapidly.
Mr. Pei nodded first, then shook his head—did that mean Zhuang Dong’s direction was right, but the specific approach was wrong?
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration hit him, and he realized the key to the problem.
“Mr. Pei, I understand!”
“We do indeed need to create a sign for the experience store, but ordinary logos or billboards won’t do—they don’t match the character of our Tenda Group at all!”
“We should custom-order a super-large LED outdoor screen. With a dynamic screen, we can display whatever we want all day long—that would be truly grand!”
Pei Qian’s eyes immediately lit up, and everything became clear.
This sounded good!
The bigger the screen, the more money would definitely be spent.
He turned to Liang Qingfan: “How much would it cost to make the largest, highest-quality LED screen possible?”
Liang Qingfan thought for a moment: “As far as I know, the best quality outdoor LED screens currently cost about 5,000 yuan per square meter.”
“But we certainly can’t cover the glass curtain wall, because LED screens aren’t transparent, and doing that would waste the beautiful glass curtain wall. If we’re going to do it, we should go higher, directly to the roof.”
“We’d need to build a steel structure for support, but that wouldn’t cost too much extra.”
“As for the area, Mr. Pei, how large do you want it?”
Pei Qian considered: “The bigger, the better!”
Liang Qingfan thought for another moment: “Then let’s just make a wraparound large screen!”
“Using the area directly above our experience store as the main body, the same width as the glass curtain wall, with a height of about 5 meters, then extending to both sides. We’ll have the mall remove the two huge poster advertisements they currently have, and we’ll cover both side walls with our large screen, covering all of the second, third, and fourth floors.”
“This way, it would have three parts: both side walls from the second to fourth floors would be entirely large screens, and the curved area above the experience store’s glass curtain wall would also be a large screen, naturally connected as one, similar to a pair of wings.”
“Calculating this way… it would be about a thousand square meters.”
“The larger the screen, the more discounts we’d get, but adding the steel structure for rooftop construction and various other miscellaneous expenses… it would cost around 4.8 million yuan.”
Pei Qian immediately made the decision: “Good, that’s it!”
It had to be said that after working at Tenda for a long time, Liang Qingfan had indeed become much bolder.
If Pei Qian had initially asked him to create a large screen proposal, he might have only done 400 or 500 square meters. But now, he went straight for a thousand square meters.
That’s growth!
Spending 5 million yuan on a screen? That was quite cost-effective.
Of course, Pei Qian was also well aware that this large screen would have a certain advertising effect.
But could the existence of the experience store possibly be kept secret?
It was absolutely impossible!
Probably by the second day after opening, everyone would know there was a large Tenda experience store here.
Since it couldn’t be kept secret, they might as well make a large screen and spend more money—there was no difference anyway.
Moreover, the future electricity bills for this screen, as well as maintenance and upkeep, would also require a large sum of money—a sustained expense.
Large screens on other buildings would accept advertisements and make money by renting to outside companies.
But Pei Qian certainly didn’t plan to rent it to outside companies to make money—he would rather give it away for free than rent it!
They would just put a few simple logos up there, spending LED screen money to do the job of ordinary printed posters—how perfect!
Pei Qian had finally encountered something satisfying and said to Liang Qingfan, “Good, then you can come up with the specific design scheme for this large screen.”
The current design was just a preliminary plan; how to make it integrate perfectly with the entire building and look good enough would require further planning from Liang Qingfan.
Pei Qian looked at Tian Mo again: “Liang Qingfan has been busy all this time, but he actually has other work as well. From now on, you should also work with Liang Qingfan, lend a hand where you can, and take over all the work for the experience store as soon as possible.”
“As for the original store, let Zhuang Dong manage it.”
Pei Qian realized that Liang Qingfan was far too capable—after all, he was a genuine talented architect, making arrangements that left Pei Qian continually surprised.
This couldn’t continue; he needed to quickly let the less skilled Tian Mo take over, striving to make the experience store start high but decline steadily, getting worse over time.
Liang Qingfan and Tian Mo both nodded.
They also felt Mr. Pei’s arrangement was very correct.
For Liang Qingfan, the work on the experience store was mostly done, with only some final tasks remaining, so it was indeed time to hand it over.
Moreover, his work at the Snack Market and Sloth Apartments wasn’t yet complete, and continuing to shuttle between these places was becoming difficult to manage.
For Tian Mo, he knew he would eventually take over this experience store, so he should take the opportunity now to learn as much as possible from Liang Qingfan and quickly get up to speed, so that the work wouldn’t be delayed due to a hasty handover later.
Pei Qian asked, “When will the experience store officially open?”
Liang Qingfan calculated the timeline a bit: “Internally, it should be ready in just over a week. But this external large screen will take some time to install. Even with urgency and suitable weather, it would take at least a month.”
Pei Qian nodded: “Alright, then that’s settled. Two weeks from now, on Sunday, June 10th, the experience store will have a soft opening. Install the outdoor screen as quickly as possible, and aim for an official opening at the end of June!”