User Comments - alogen
alogen
Posted on: Funny Business 4 -- Farewell, Xiao Zhao
August 27, 2009 at 2:25 PMHere comes some garbled Chinese advice for Lao Wang's predicament.
老王没办法不杀 - 你不知道杜老板搞定怎么多的人?
老王就有一个办法，如果他不原因越陷越深。杀小赵后，应该杀杜老。 杀杜老板后，他可能自己占杜老板的地位 - 肯定没人敢反对 ' 杀手王 '。
成为黑社会的老板以后，他可能利用他的地位为了人民服务。
Posted on: The Sherpas Story with Mark Secchia
September 9, 2009 at 5:04 PMI'd like to also chime in to support the entrepreneurial focus to this show. So much of the English-language media out here is shallow dross; it's nice to have something actually interesting.
To juzi:
Yes, in theory they could do that, but it's a massive headache on your accounting system. It was mentioned in the podcast that restaurants give the meals to the Sherpas couriers, customers give cash to the deliverymen which Sherpas receives and then they settle up at the end of the month. If you're paying out of hand each time you're going to need more cash in the business (since you need a reserve on hand for payments which grows every month) and double the accounting hassle.
Sherpas also caters to those with more money than time. Western dishes are more expensive and therefore the profit margin is higher - people will pay 80RMB for a 70RMB meal, but feel ripped off paying 20RMB for a 10RMB meal. It's a funny old world ...