Day 149: Raising the Latte Price Again
At a cafรฉ chain's head office, team manager Ms. Jeong (A) and Minjae (B), a new employee, meet to decide how much to raise drink prices.
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Dialogue
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A ๋ฏผ์ฌ ์จ, ์๋ ์์ ๋จ๊ฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ ๋ดค์ด์? ์ ๋ฌ ๋ง์ ์ผ์ญ ํผ์ผํธ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด์.
Minjae ssi, wondu suip danga bogoseo bwasseoyo? Seok dal mane samsip peosenteuna ollasseoyo.
Minjae, did you see the report on imported bean prices? They're up thirty percent in three months.
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B ๋ค, ํ์ฅ๋. ๋ธ๋ผ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ญ์ด ๋ค์ด์ ๊ตญ์ ์์ธ๊ฐ ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค.
Ne, timjangnim. Beurajire gamumi deureoseo gukje sisega geupgyeokage ollatdago hamnida.
Yes, ma'am. There was a drought in Brazil, so world prices shot up.
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A ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ค์ ๋ฌ๋ถํฐ ์๋ฃ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์กฐ์ ํด์ผ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๋ผํ ๋ฅผ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ข์์ง ๋ฏผ์ฌ ์จ ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Geuraeseo daeum dalbuteo eumnyo gagyeogeul jojeonghaeya hal geot gatayo. Ratereul eolmana ollimyeon joeulji Minjae ssi uigyeoneul deutgo sipeoyo.
So I think we'll have to adjust drink prices from next month. I'd like your view on how much to raise the latte.
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B ์์งํ ๋ง์๋๋ ค๋ ๋๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? ์๋ ์๋ ํ ๋ฒ ์ฌ๋ ธ๋๋ฐ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์๋๋ค์ด ๋ฑ์ ๋๋ฆด๊น ๋ด ๊ฑฑ์ ์ ๋๋ค.
Soljiki malsseumdeuryeodo doegetseumnikka? Jangnyeonedo han beon ollyeonneunde tto ollimyeon sonnimdeuri deungeul dollilkka bwa geokjeongimnida.
May I be frank? We raised it once last year. I'm worried customers will turn their backs on us if we raise it again.
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A ๊ฑฑ์ ์ ์ดํดํด์. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์๋๊ฐ์ด ๋ค์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋, ์ง๊ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก๋ ํ์๋ก ์ํด์์. ์์์๋ ๋ผํ ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ฐฑ ์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์๋ ์๊ธฐ๊น์ง ๋์์.
Geokjeongeun ihaehaeyo. Geureonde wondugapsi dasi naerimyeon mollado, jigeum gagyeogeuroneun palsurok sonhaeyeyo. Wieseoneun ratereul obaek won ollijaneun yaegikkaji nawayo.
I understand the concern. But unless bean prices come back down, at current prices the more we sell, the more we lose. Upstairs, there's even talk of putting the latte up by five hundred won.
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B ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ผํ ํ ์์ ์ค์ฒ์ค๋ฐฑ ์์ธ๋ฐ, ์๋๋ค์ด ๊ทธ ๋์ ๋ด๊ณ ์ฌ ๋์๋ ค๊ณ ์? ํธ์์ ์ปคํผ๋ ์ฒ ์๋์ธ๋ฐ์.
Geureom rate han jane ocheonobaek woninde, sonnimdeuri geu doneul naego sa deusiryeogoyo? Pyeonuijeom keopineun cheon wondaeindeyo.
That would make a latte fifty-five hundred won. Do you really think customers will pay that? Convenience-store coffee costs about a thousand won.
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A ์ด์ ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ ๋งค์ฅ์ ๊ฐ ๋ณด๋๊น ๋ฒ์จ ์ฌ๋ ธ๋ฐ์. ๋ผํ ๊ฐ ์ค์ฒํ๋ฐฑ ์์ด์์.
Eoje gyeongjaengsa maejange ga bonikka beolsseo ollyeotdeyo. Ratega ocheonpalbaek wonieyo.
I went to a competitor's store yesterday, and they'd already raised theirs. Their latte is fifty-eight hundred won.
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B ๊ทธ ํ์ฌ๋ ์๋ ๋น์ผ ๋ธ๋๋ ์๋๋๊น? ์ ํฌ ์๋๋ค์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
Geu hoesaneun wollae bissan beuraendeu animnikka? Jeohui sonnimdeureun gagyeoge hwolssin deo mingamhamnida.
Isn't that a premium brand to begin with? Our customers are much more price-sensitive.
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A ๊ทธ ๋ง๋ ์ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ค์ ๊ฐ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค๋ ํ์ธํด ๋ดค๋๋ฐ, ๋๋ถ๋ถ ์ผ๋ฐฑ ์์์ ์ค๋ฐฑ ์์ฉ ์ฌ๋ ธ์ด์.
Geu maldo illiga isseoyo. Geuraeseo jungjeoga beuraendeudeuldo hwaginhae bwanneunde, daebubun sambaek woneseo obaek wonssik ollyeosseoyo.
You have a point. So I checked the mid-range brands too, and most have raised prices by three to five hundred won.
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B ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ์ ํฌ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑด ๋ถ๊ฐํผํ๊ฒ ๋ค์. ๋ค๋ง ์ธ์ ํญ์ ์ต์ํํ์ผ๋ฉด ํฉ๋๋ค.
Geureotamyeon jeohuido ollineun geon bulgapihagenneyo. Daman insang pogeun choesohwahaesseumyeon hamnida.
In that case, a raise seems unavoidable for us too. But I'd like to keep the increase as small as possible.
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A ์ข์์. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ๋ฉด ์ข์๊น์?
Joayo. Guchejeogeuro eotteoke hamyeon joeulkkayo?
Good. What do you suggest, specifically?
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B ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ ธ๋ ์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฐจ์งํ๋๊น ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋๊ณ , ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ ์๋ฃ๋ง ์ผ๋ฐฑ ์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋จ๊น ํฉ๋๋ค.
Amerikanoneun jeohui maechurui jeolbaneul chajihanikka geudaero dugo, uyuga deureoganeun eumnyoman sambaek won ollimyeon eotteolkka hamnida.
Americanos make up half our sales, so I'd suggest leaving them alone and raising only the milk drinks by three hundred won.
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A ๊ด์ฐฎ์ ์๊ฐ์ด๋ค์. ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์งํค๋ฉด ์๋๋ค ๋ฐ๋ฐ๋ ํจ์ฌ ์ค์ผ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ด์.
Gwaenchaneun saenggagineyo. Amerikano gagyeogeul jikimyeon sonnimdeul banbaldo hwolssin juril su itgesseoyo.
Good thinking. If we hold the Americano price, we can cut customer backlash a lot.
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B ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋จ๊ณจ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์๊ฒ๋ ํ ๋ฌ ๋์ ์ ๋ฆฝ ํฌ์ธํธ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฐฐ๋ก ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น?
Geurigo dangol gogaegegeneun han dal dongan jeongnip pointeureul du baero deurineun haengsareul hamyeon eotteoketseumnikka?
And how about a month-long promotion giving regulars double reward points?
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A ๋น์ฉ์ ๋ง์ผํ ํ์ด๋ ๋ฐ์ ธ ๋ด์ผ๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ์ข์์. ์ฌ์ค ์ง๋์ฃผ์ ๋งค์ฅ์ ๋๊ฐ ๋ณด๋๊น ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ถํํ๋ ์๋์ด ๋ง๋ฐ์.
Biyongeun maketingtimirang ttajyeo bwayagetjiman, banghyangeun joayo. Sasil jinanjue maejange naga bonikka gagyeok ttaemune bulpyeonghaneun sonnimi manteyo.
We'll need to go over the cost with marketing, but the direction is good. Actually, when I visited our stores last week, I noticed a lot of customers complaining about prices.
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B ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ํ์ฅ๋, ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ๋ณด๋ค ํ ๋ฌ ๋ฆ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑด ์ด๋ป์ต๋๊น? ๊ทธ๋์ ์๋๋ค์ด ์ ํฌ ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด์ฌ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Geureotamyeon timjangnim, gyeongjaengsaboda han dal neutge ollineun geon eotteoseumnikka? Geudongan sonnimdeuri jeohui jjogeuro neomeool sudo itseumnida.
In that case, ma'am, what about raising ours a month later than the competition? Customers might come over to us in the meantime.
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A ์ค, ๋ค์ด์จ ์ง ๋ ๋ฌ๋ฐ์ ์ ๋๋๋ฐ ์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ค์. ๋ค๋ง ๊ทธ ํ ๋ฌ ๋์ ์์ค์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋๋์ง ๊ณ์ฐํด ๋ด์ผ ํด์.
O, deureoon ji du dalbakke an dwaenneunde jebeobineyo. Daman geu han dal dongan sonsiri eolmana doeneunji gyesanhae bwaya haeyo.
Oh, you've only been here two months and you're already pretty sharp. But we need to work out how much we'd lose in that month.
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B ์ค๋ ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋งค์ถ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์์ค ๊ท๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋ฝ์ ๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
Oneul jungeuro maechul jaryoreul batangeuro sonsil gyumoreul ppoba bogetseumnida.
I'll use our sales data to estimate the size of the loss by the end of today.
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A ๊ณ ๋ง์์. ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ ์๋ด๋ฌธ ์ด์๋ ๋ถํํด์. ์๋๊ฐ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์์งํ๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
Gomawoyo. Gagyeok insang annaemun choando butakaeyo. Wondugap yaegireul soljikage sseuneun ge jokesseoyo.
Thanks. Please draft the price-increase notice too. We'd better be honest about the bean prices.
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B ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ '๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ๋ธ๋ผ์ง์ ๋น๊ฐ ์ค์ง ์์ต๋๋ค'๋ก ์์ํ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น?
Algetseumnida. Cheot munjangeun 'gogaek yeoreobun, Beurajire biga oji anseumnida'ro sijakamyeon eotteoketseumnikka?
Understood. How about starting with 'Dear customers, it is not raining in Brazil'?
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A ํํ, ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ฉด ์๋๋ค์ด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋ณด๋ค ๋ธ๋ผ์ง ๋ ์จ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ค์.
Haha, geureoke sseumyeon sonnimdeuri gagyeokboda Beurajil nalssireul deo geokjeonghagenneyo.
Ha ha, write that and customers will worry more about the weather in Brazil than about our prices.
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