Watching the business in his shop get worse day by day, with the staff idly swatting flies all day long, Boss Lei was fuming at heart. Seeing the stream of customers at the shop across from his, he threw his cigarette butt to the ground and cursed vehemently, "Damn it, just watch me deal with you."
That very afternoon, Boss Lei called up the other franchise owners to arrange a meeting. Inside a teahouse, they started with casual greetings and boastful chatter, but soon Lei steered the conversation towards the issue of dealing with the Xia Family ice cream shop.
"Old Lei, you can't handle a shop that's just a few dozen square meters? You run a four-story professional ice cream parlor that has every variety under the sun, including the latest ice cream flavors from abroad, right? How is it possible that you can't do better business than a tiny family workshop?"
A man in his thirties, decked out in gold rings and chains, said with disbelief.
