Quantum Leap Vol. 7 Fausto japan KabushikiGaisha

C019 Did I Just made Hey-Piah...Nom Nom Nom

The 'aunties' saw it and tasted the new snack and they liked it instantly. I requested for their assistance to fill up 3 large bowls and serve it with dinner afterwards and I headed back to the garden.

"What did you do just now? I thought I heard fireworks."

"Ah... That was popcorn... Corn that pops on the pan and pops right into your mouth."

"Wow... Another new product... Are you going to Patent it?"

"Nah... It is just a normal food snack. I'm not going to patent it. But we will patent the Peanut Butter instead and name it Skippy!"

"That name already belongs to some other corporation! Devise another name!"

That voice again that came from offscreen. If he can change the script, why can't we? Naaaahhhh...fat ugly Mr Director. And now he's chewing the popcorn! Damn....!!

"I've decided to call it 'PinattSubata' ... Damn you Mr Director... I want to use a catchy phrase also cannot. So we need 2 phases for this. When we have the new warehouses on the new plot of land, one would be used for glass blowing, while the other would be 6 huge machines to churn this into peanut butter and 2 lines for processing and another line for frying."

"Here, I draw it for you... So that you can see what I had in mind. Just imagine, every household buys 1 every 3 days... We would be supplying thousands of bottles of this."

I drew the layout on how the process would be and placed it aside as dinner was served. It was fried garlic rice, with egg and saba fish and a crispy deep-fried fritter made from chopped vegetables and flour. Nom... Nom... Nom...Nom... Nom!

When the popcorn came, everyone took some and was delighted at how soft and light the snack was. I told them we can have it like this, slight salted or even with honey flavoured.

I saw the 'aunties' preparing some for themselves and find it quite delectable as a snack and decided to present it for the employees tomorrow for afternoon tea. This would be a change of variety for them.

I called one of the delivery boys and asked him to summon the kitchen supplier as we need to discuss with him something. He galloped to the trading district and galloped back with the supplier. As we had finished our dinner, the only thing was the 3 bowls of popcorn.

I showed to Kami the proper way of eating popcorn was throw it in the air and catch it with the mouth. Everyone tried and laughed hysterically when some popcorn entered the nostril, some hit the eye and only Hiko-sama was able to catch it with his mouth on the first try. The owner of the kitchen supplier just looked on at how childish these grown-up men were.

I drew a diagram from a side view and a top view of a large diameter and low surfaced blender or mixer with blunt fins to stir up contents inside such as flour and a spindle at the side when one full turn would make the bladed fins spin at 20 or more RPM. He said he got a smaller version about a third of the capacity and I asked what's the capacity like.

He explained the capacity is about 2 kilograms... And with interchangeable blades. If we need the huge ones, he had to bring it to another Hollywood set where they used a ray gun to make the film, "Honey! I blew up the kids!"

I told him to reserve 9 of those for future projects and asked him to blow it up to 5 times the normal proportion. I would need 4 to 6 of those in the future. He said he would work in it and let me know the prices.

He took and a handful of popcorn bowed and left while he threw one popcorn in the air and try catching it with his mouth! Hahahaha it's vital and it's catching on pretty quick...!

After finishing our light snacks after dinner I informed the group that Hiko-sama and I would like to take a walk in the trading district for a while.

"We are going to look for a glassblower factory if it exists. If not we have to find a few people to do it. Want to join us?"

The men agreed and we walked towards the trading district to look for glassblowers. We asked for directions and found one that was quite secluded since it was a factory and no one made personal trades there.

I peered in and asked for the owner and he emerged a few moments later.

"What can we do for you, Gentlemen. This is a glassblower factory and we make orders for oil lantern glass, bottle glazes like the Ramune and other stuff for trading. Come in and take a look at our humble shop."

The moment we stepped into their production area, we were hit by a wave of heat that comes from opened door furnaces. There were bare-bodied men and Willaim from BGT would normally get him excited like a cat in heat.

I was thinking of getting our glassblower but the furnace seemed too hot for comfort and it's a fire hazard. Our warehouse is not made from masonry but rather pinewood for its panelling. Hmm... Bad idea. Bad idea.

Everyone seemed rather uncomfortable in the heated factory while Hiko-sama and I acted as normal because of the daily affairs at our Blacksmith in the Realm of Mind.

"Kind proprietor, do you make glass containers with a glass top that could be airtight? Do you have a sample to show in your showroom?"

"Coke this way, Gentlemen. I can see your colleagues are already sweating buckets!"

The owner brought us to his office where there was an array of glass pieces, that comes in all sort of shapes and sizes and uses. I saw a cylindrical glass with a cute handle and asked if he could make this that could hold 250 millilitres of content with a glass top to make it airtight.

"Yes, it's possible. You wanted the same design as well?"

"Just a slight variation. Could you make this surface flat on this side and the same cylindrical as the rest?"

"That's possible. It's not hard really."

Ah... Die Liao! He had used a magic word that I love. Its called simplicity.

"How about the imprint of a label like Ramune for example. Are you able to do that too?"

"Yes, we can... We will get the Blacksmith to create for us an iron stamp and while the surface has cooled down a bit, we would press in right into this glass to make the imprint. It's easy, even a kid can print it."

"That's great, what's the price like? I mean if there is a glass cover, all we need to make it airtight is to use onion skin paper right?"

"Ah... Yes... It is shaped like a paper doily and just place it here and use the glass cover to cover it. If you are looking at this design, slightly shorter and with a cover, it would cost you only 5 coppers. But if you at 50-100 pieces, I could give you at a price if 4 coppers 5 bronze."

"Since the production is simple how about if I counter this at 2 coppers?"

"Owh... It is a break-even price, I think we would only make a bronze it two pieces if you counter with the price. No, Gentlemen, it won't do."

"I offer you at 2 coppers per glass max at a production of 250,000 pieces. All neatly stacked in the 50s per carton. If you earn a bronze each, you would earn 250 gold coins altogether, right?"

"It's 50 per crate and a total of 5000 crates. Write me up a receipt and we can conclude the order. My good man here will pay a partial deposit of 50 gold coins first and the rest when all the 250,000 pieces had been completely delivered."

"Its a deal, Gentlemen. So what are you going to print on it?"

I took his receipt book and drew an oval shape logo. At the top, I wrote Fasuto Japan and the bottom I wrote KabushikiGaisha. In the centre, I wrote "Pinatt Subata".

He took it and asked what is this "Pinatt Subata" and I explained to him that I am not a Japanese and I took it from Google Translate from a direct translation of "Peanut Butter".

"Ahhh... No wonder. I have heard of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha and heard that someone ever stood up against the Mayor and talked him down until he left the premises."

"By the way, it is in the past so right now, let me write you a receipt for the order. When do you need them?"

"You can make as many as you can first and once it is prepared, pack them first in the crates and store them in your warehouse and we will let our boys come and pick it up when our warehouse is ready."

"Very well, Gentlemen... We will get it ready, so I write in a deposit of 100 gold and remaining 4900 gold when it's complete, right?"

Hiko-sama took his free hand and inserted into his sleeve and magically took out 100 gold coins and passed it to the owner. He didn't believe his luck when he received such an order from the well known Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha where its members were all low profile personnel.

We thanked him and bowed as we left his showroom, past his open furnaces and out from the factory, ushered by the owner himself. He bowed deeply to us and we bowed back and he was thankful for the business that we had given him.

"Wow... Simply wow. I don't know how to negotiate like you but your mind works very fast. Faster than the MRT in Tokyo! The way you negotiate is terrifying. And your mind can calculate what these men are after... And that profit!" Toshi spoke to us when yet again we had stuck a deal at a bargain price.

I looked at Hiko-sama and said, "Easy money... Easy come, easy go." Hiko-sama nodded as he understood that we had gotten a 5,000 float cash and all go to the glass factory.

"The shape of the glass looks weird with a handle," Kami said after a while.

"Do you know why it's shaped like a drinking mug? After the contents are finished, the customer can use it as a drinking mug. And when people drink from that glass, they would remember to buy some more of the Pinatt Subata."

"Just imagine our town of 10,000 residents and 4 residents to a household. We would expect every single household to have this Pinatt Subata and at that figure, we sell about 2,500 bottles at 1 silver every 3 days. Or an equivalent of 250 gold per 3 days or 2500 gold coins per month. That's for 10,000 residents."

"How about 100,000 residents, it would be 2500 per 3 days or 25,000 per month. Or maybe 1,000,000 residents that would reap an income of 250,000 gold coins per month. That's the max for a million residents. A humble silver could rake in so much."

"True... True... True... You're so good at figures and a forecast. With the drinking glass-shaped container, it serves 2 purposes, one is for storage and another to drink from."

"And it's free advertising every time they raised the glass to drink they will see 'Pinatt Subata' and the company as well... You kid... Are you a Major from Business Administration or Business and Marketing or both? Hahahahaha... "

I smiled as this chapter comes to a close at over 2k words so I would be able to move on and write another chapter and mass release it as 3 chapters per weekday and 5 or more on a weekend! How I'd wished but 3 chapters daily shouldn't be too shabby right?