He has yet to speak to the owner, but when I told him that he proposed buying Maiyuu's bakery products on a fahk kai basis, he poo-pooed it. 'We're the ones who shoulder all the risk - if he can't sell anything, he has the right to return it. He doesn't have to pay,' he said.
In that case, I asked him how he felt about selling bakery, perhaps to some other place, by the conventional method - kai song.
Maiyuu says that too has its problems, as we would have to keep our price low enough for the person selling it to add a big enough margin for himself.
I told Maiyuu I would still like to take him to the shop next week to meet the owner...so we shall see what happens.
In the meantime, we have bought ourselves a small bar-b-que stove and a blender, and today Maiyuu returns to the shopping mall to buy some other cooking device.
In more gays-at-the-supermarket news, at the mall yesterday we visited two stalls selling boutique ice-cream, and spent B1000 in five minutes.
Can many families afford to blow so much on ice-cream in one go? I doubt it. Three cheers for the pink baht!
"He has yet to speak to the owner, but when I told him that he proposed buying Maiyuu's bakery products on a fahk kai basis, he poo-pooed it."
ReplyDeleteHe should at least give it a try before completely writing it off, make a little batch and sees how it goes. Everything has risk once you think about it. He should experiment with both methods: Fahk Kai and Kai Song. He has calculated the risk without experience, once he tries it out he will know the full risk involve.
From what you tell us, Maiyuu doesn't do very much, I don't think it will hurt to experiment with this.
I agree: It would not hurt to give it a go. As a first step, I will tell Maiyuu that I have made a time for him to meet the eatery owner one day next week. That way, he won't be able to wiggle out of it so easily.
ReplyDeleteNobody gets rich working for somebody else. Maybe Maiyuu needs his own shop or stand to sell his own products to his own customers.
ReplyDeleteIt would get him out of the house and working again. He would meet people. Could such a small shop or stand be set up fairly inexpensively nearby?
Don't indulge on ice-cream, or you will get fat, or worse fat and old...Try fresh fruits for a change...
ReplyDelete1000 baht on ice cream? How extravagant you are these days Bkkdreamer.
ReplyDeleteLet me share a true account. U know, my SK-II niece Jeab loved her mum's Banana Bread and when a shop saw her eating that always, decided to try a bite & loved it. Now shops are selling her mum's banana bread everywhere. I brushed it off that she was famous, so they wanted to make her happy until I ate it myself. It was very2 yummy and the label on it had nothing about Jeab. Consumers buy them daily now without knowing it came from a kitchen at Soi Rajkru. If Maiyuu is good, he should be enterprising too! Encourage him dear.
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