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Chapter 66

Chapter 66

With the income from the book bar, he can recruit craftsmen to repair the library, fix the damaged books, and buy what he wants without the financial interference of the college management. He will have an excuse for some of the things he does in the future...

"By the way! Administrator Jia Lan!"

The girl named Minnie suddenly raised her hand and asked, "You only arranged the work for the five sheds, what about the woods?"

"Good question!"

Jia Lan looked at the clever girl with approval: "Who can tell me how many seats there are in our library book bar?"

The girls looked at each other, but Alan, who had been in charge of recruiting craftsmen, knew more and answered carefully: "If you don't count those in the woods, the five sheds plus the fifteen small tables have a total of about 20,000 seats."

Jia Lan nodded: "Then who of you knows how many faculty and students [Komo University] has?"

"I know! I know!"

A girl raised her hand: "The faculty and staff of the whole school add up to about 30,000, and the total number of students in all subjects in all grades is more than 370,000!"

"Very good!"

Jia Lan said like a teacher, "That is to say, our [Komo University] has a total population of more than 400,000. Even if only one-tenth of the people come to the library every day, we still need to receive 40,000 people, but there are only half of the seats. What should we do?"

The girls looked at each other, and Alan was a little skeptical: "Will there be so many people? It seems that only one or two thousand people came today. There are no seats... If there are no seats... they will borrow books back to read, right?"

"That's because they don't know that our book bar is open."

Jia Lan smiled and said: "And there are no seats. I think many people will be willing to read on the grass or steps nearby. After all, if you borrow books to read, you won't see so many beautiful and cute girls, and you won't be able to drink the milk tea drinks brewed by the girls!"

After making a small joke, which caused the girls to laugh, Jia Lan said affirmatively: "Look, after today's trial operation, I estimate that starting from tomorrow, the number of students visiting the library will begin to surge! You will be too busy by then! What do you think we should do?"

The girls looked at each other, and Minnie said excitedly: "Recruit more sisters!"

"Good idea! 20,000 seats, plus people reading on the nearby grass and steps, will also need meals and drinks. In this way, it is expected that there will be an average of 50,000 customers visiting our book bar every day..."

Jia Lan said with a chuckle: "As for how many people are needed to serve these 50,000 people, how many meals and ingredients are needed, how to manage, how to operate, settle accounts, purchase raw materials... it all depends on you!"

The girls were somewhat uneasy. They originally thought it was just a simple part-time job, but they didn't expect the responsibility to suddenly become so heavy. After whispering for a while, they left Jia Lan, who didn't intend to manage, aside and hurriedly gathered together to hold the "First Internal Seminar for Managers of the Book Bar of the Komo University Library".

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Looking at the girls who were getting serious, Jia Lan smiled slightly, turned around and walked into the library, leaving the space for them.

The reason why Jia Lan was so sure that there would be a huge flow of people was because of a term called "market demand" mentioned in the soul memory from the unknown world. During his observation during this period, he found that the theories of the unknown world were extremely accurate.

[KoMo University] has a large number of people, but in addition to entertainment venues such as taverns, concert halls, and theaters, the academy lacks places where people can have quiet entertainment.

Magicians' demand for alcoholic beverages is much lower than that of combat professionals. Even most magicians resist consuming alcohol, believing that alcohol will affect brain function, reduce mental strength and control over elements.

Although concert halls and theaters are elegant, not everyone is interested in music and art.

Most magicians would rather calculate elemental arrangements at home than waste time in concert halls and theaters, listening to those works that moan without illness, which are far less beautiful than magic spells.

This leads to a very scarce spare time for students at [KoMo University]. The extremely bored students often gather in groups of three or five to find fun based on the knowledge they have mastered.

For example, they use alchemy to refine small explosives and secretly place them in the toilets of the teaching building... or set up small magic traps to play pranks, and the people who are pranked will try their best to retaliate.

This vicious cycle of pranks often leads to escalation of the situation and evolves into a large-scale "student war" between student groups, classes, departments, and even colleges.

[KoMo University] In history, there have been hundreds of student wars at the department level alone, and more than a dozen at the college level. The battles were fierce and affected a wide range!

Although this has trained students' practical and hands-on abilities to a certain extent, when the students of the entire college become "active", the college management has a headache and has to organize students to participate in adventure trials frequently to consume their vigorous energy.

In Jia Lan's consideration, the college is a place for learning after all, and most of the students who can be admitted to [KoMo University] come here to pursue knowledge.

Therefore, the library has become the most frequented place for students besides the classroom.

Instead of borrowing books and then trudging back to a messy dormitory or deserted classroom, why not order a drink at a nearby book bar, enjoy the rich reading atmosphere, bask in the sun, and enjoy the pleasant time of reading?

In the past, places like book bars did not exist, but now they exist, and they will inevitably become the first choice for students to relax, which is better than staying in a dormitory with a bad environment and smelling stinky socks.

Therefore, when designing the book bar, Jia Lan planned it according to the scale of one-tenth of the college's population.

In the early stage, due to limited funds, he chose to use local materials, using branches trimmed from the ancient forest of the library as materials, and built five wooden sheds on the wide lawn in front of the library to shelter from wind and rain.

After the trial operation, the popularity of the book bar was determined and the first income was obtained, Jia Lan could build the library book bar according to his own ideas.

For example, in his conception, the completed book bar will have 30 wooden sheds with a total of 30,000 seats, which will be in the shape of a "U" and cover the lawn in front of the library.

In addition, there are open-air small tables with a total of 20,000 seats scattered around the wooden shed area.

There will be 5,000 swing-style hanging chairs, 3,000 tree platforms and 1,000 small tree houses in the ancient forest!

By then, as Minnie and other waiters become more proficient in the service business, the services provided by the book bar will gradually diversify, adding more items, turning the library book bar from a simple reading place into a leisure place.

The service hours will also be extended from the current 9 am to 5 pm to all-day operation, and even provide membership priority positioning, reserved seats or tree house rental services.

These measures are all to meet the needs of faculty and magic apprentices with better economic conditions.

According to the souls from the unknown world, there are always people who are willing to spend a negligible amount of money to seek some equally negligible "superiority".

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