Chapter 245 - There’s a Restaurant that Promoters Haven’t Found? (1/2)

“Don’t worry, tell me the truth. How many customers have visited the restaurant in the past two days? How many people dined here? How many people pre-ordered food?” Pei Qian asked patiently and systematically.

Lin Canrong answered truthfully. “A total of eight customers came over the past two days. Three of them dined here. One of them pre-ordered dinner for tomorrow.”

“Hmm… eh?”

When he heard the first two numbers, Pei Qian was happy. These numbers were practically negligible. In a few days, Zhang Zuting would make a new Weibo post. This Weibo post would be pushed down, and even these few customers would be lost.

Yet, one of the customers had actually pre-ordered dinner for the next day? There were many rich people indeed.

Pei Qian pondered for a moment and asked, “What did he pre-order?”

Lin Canrong reported the man’s orders to Pei Qian. Among these were Tomahawk Steak, caviar, and Matsutake. He had not ordered a lot; it looked enough for two or three people. However, all of these dishes added up to over ten thousand yuan.

What’s more, this customer had already paid 20% of the bill as a deposit.

Pei Qian was silent. He really did not understand rich people.

Although Pei Qian would also wolf these dishes down and invite his employees to do the same while he was at it, it was only because he was trying to spend as much money as he could! If he could finish spending all the money, he would be able to benefit from the System. What’s more, the System would replenish his funds. Those were the only reasons that Pei Qian could spend without restraint.

However, if Pei Qian had been asked to spend his own money on this food, he would find even a common home-cooked dish costing three to four hundred yuan expensive!

Yet, this customer had ordered more than ten thousand yuan worth of dishes.

Pei Qian was positive at first. Until now, the number of customers who had visited Ming Yun Private Kitchen was in the single-digits. The situation looked ideal. He did not expect a baller to be hidden among these few customers.

At that moment, Pei Qian felt confused.

Seeing Boss Pei fall silent, Lin Canrong became confused as to what the latter was thinking.

This should be good news, right? Why isn’t there even a hint of a smile on Boss Pei’s face?

Pei Qian pondered for a moment and then asked, “Can you identify the man’s accent?”

After thinking, Lin Canrong replied, “He spoke Mandarin, but he had an accent. I don’t think he’s from Jingzhou. I think he’s from Pingcheng.” A coal boss?

That was Pei Qian’s first reaction.

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However, he quickly looked on the bright side. He was not a local of Jingzhou. Perhaps he was here on a business trip. He probably would not be staying here for a long time.

Since that was the case, it was good.

Even if he was a baller, he could not come here frequently. At most, he would entertain his guests here and only make reservations when he had to host business meals. Thinking about it this way, it should not… generate too much revenue for Ming Yun Private Kitchen, right?

At that thought, Pei Qian relaxed slightly. He felt like he had been panicking and treating everyone as an enemy recently. Ever since he opened this private kitchen, he had been treating his own employees to meals here. How could he expect it to remain completely hidden from the outside world?

Having a few ballers eat here had been in Pei Qian’s original plan anyway. In the long-term, this private kitchen would still incur losses.

Thus, there was no need to get so nervous.

When he heard that the baller was not from Jingzhou, Pei Qian relaxed considerably. Both of them chatted about the daily operations of the private kitchen until Little Sun’s car drove into sight.

“That’s that for now then. Remember what I told you about the service. Even if they’re ballers, do not break the rules. Just ask the waiters to treat them like ordinary customers.

“Also, do not spread the name of our restaurant.”

Pei Qian left some more instructions before boarding the car.

After seeing Boss Pei out, Lin Canrong tried to decipher the hidden intention in Boss Pei’s words.

“Is Boss Pei trying to tell us not to get too nervous upon seeing ballers because there will be tons of such ballers in Ming Yun Private Kitchen in the future? If we break the rules for one baller, when more ballers visit us in the future, the rules would be useless.

“Mm, that makes sense!

“Boss Pei is far-sighted indeed. He has already thought about what Ming Yun Private Kitchen would look like when business picks up in the future. He’s really well-prepared. “Boss Pei is also reminding me not to be easily satisfied. How can I become so excited over just a single baller? I’m a branch manager after all; I have to remain calm. When more ballers come and visit us in the future, I must maintain my composure.

“That is how I can pass down Boss Pei’s spirit to the employees.”

Lin Canrong saw a bright future for Ming Yun Private Kitchen. Happily, he returned to share the good news with the others.

August 21st, Saturday…

Ming Yun Private Kitchen was setting up for a dinner.

Qiao Liang planned to walk around Jingzhou in the morning and have some fun. He would work overtime and play Repent and be Saved from the afternoon. Boss Pei had been so nice to him. He had to make sure that he completed the job properly.

Over at Shang Yang Games, research and development for Bloody Battle Song: The Powerful Version was already complete. They were now running final tests. Then, they could officially advertise it and publish it.

Today was Saturday. According to Boss Pei’s instructions, they could not work overtime on weekends.

As the director, Lin Wan tried to persuade everyone to return home in the beginning. However, the thought of the game’s publishing date approaching made Wang Xiaobin and Ye Zhizhou restless at home. They insisted on working overtime, and Lin Wan had no choice but to allow it.

Of course, Lin Wan could hardly sit still either.

Thinking about the game they spent so much time on being officially published for gamers to try in a week made everyone feel agitated and apprehensive. In the end, they kept the size of Bloody Battle Song: The Powerful Version’s mini-client to 370 MB. This was far more than anyone expected in the beginning. Initially, Bloody Battle Song was a browser game that people could open whenever they wanted to play. Mini-clients for most browser games could be kept under 5 MB. A few web-based games’ mini-clients added up to 30 to 50 MB.

Any bigger than that, and they would not be called mini-clients. Taking web-based games as the standard, it would take far too long to download 370 MB worth of data. Gamers would probably be better off downloading client-side games. Most web-based gamers would find it hard to tolerate downloading 370 MB of data.

However, Lin Wan did not have a better solution. According to what they agreed on earlier, Bloody Battle Song: The Powerful Version would be changed from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional game. The art resources had been redone. No matter how they tried to compress them and improve them, they could not lower their size any further.