Tasty and Pretty Fisherman's opening day garnered eight silver taels in revenue, aside from the five silver taels someone tipped, amounting to a total sale of three silver taels. Yet, these three silver taels didn't really turn a profit; after accounting for all costs, they made just about half a tael of silver—and that didn't even include labor expenses. So no matter how you calculated it, it just didn't add up.
For the first three days, that was about the standard. After the official opening, earning one to two silver taels a day was already good, as they were a small noodle shop catering to ordinary folks and couldn't charge high prices.
But the situation was different upstairs. The counter was ready-to-use; she just needed to prepare more bottles and jars, produce more labels and manuals. Selling a bottle of shampoo could earn what the noodle shop made in an entire day.
Opening the noodle shop was a hobby; but establishing the skincare shop was to make money.
