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Business at the restaurant on the first day of the semester was busier than Jiang Feng had expected.

From sharp-sighted seniors to hungry freshmen, their wallets were usually full at the beginning of the semester. With enough money, there was no way they would dine in the canteen. The canteen at A university was known for its inconsistency. When the chefs did their best, the food was okay. But when they couldn't care less about the food they made, they would use washing up water to make soups or add strange seasonings into the Miso Soup. Some would even make Stir-fry Tomato with Pineapple or bake mooncakes with chili. There wasn't anything they wouldn't do.

The Healthy Restaurant could be counted as a massive shop around A University. Even though the price was on the expensive side, there were still students who wouldn't mind spending a little extra buck. When it was almost mid-noon, the first and second floors were fully seated. Some of the customers even had to sit with another group of customers on the round tables.

”Hey, where's the club president?” Liu Zixuan asked as he ran into the shop out of breath, shocked by the line outside the restaurant. ”The teacher wouldn't let us go even when the class was over.”

Liu Zixuan almost thought that he was at the canteen.

The crowd at the restaurant was almost as huge as when the canteen was doing a promotion.

”There are too many customers, Jiang Feng went to help out in the kitchen,” Wang hao explained. ”Go and help Qiu Chen on the second floor. I think he will have to chop his legs off soon if he keeps running like that.”

They ran back and forth, serving customers until half-past one.

”Hey, how did you even promote your shop? Why are there so many people today?” Wang Hao asked as he gulped down a glass of Sour Prune Juice like how Jiang Jiankang usually did.

”Today is the start of the semester, don't you know that the Canteen 1, 5, and 6 are closed? It would be weird if you could find a restaurant that's not packed around here,” Jiang Feng said.

All three canteens that Jiang Feng had just mentioned were handled by the same company. The company usually started to operate three days after the semester began.

”You're right,” Qiu Chen nodded as he recalled the first time he had to fight for food in the canteen during the early few days of the semester when he was still a freshman. ”Aren't you planning to do food deliveries? Liu Qian just asked me when you are planning to join one of the food delivery services.”

”Are you blind? Didn't you see the notice outside? Hiring Delivery Boy,” Wang Hao scolded as he ate.

”We don't do deliveries,” Jiang Jiankang suddenly said. ”I've been cooking for over 20 years, and I've never touched that.”

”Shut it,” Wang Xiulian scolded as she rolled her eyes. ”You just don't want to lose some of the profit to the delivery services.”

”We only deliver foods to our frequent customers,” Jiang Feng explained. ”We did have a plan for that, but let's just talk about it after we manage to hire someone.”

After lunch, some of them still have classes and left, while the others went back to the dorm. Since Jiang Feng didn't have any classes after that, he stayed back in the shop and helped prepare the ingredients for dinner. He then cooked two pots of congee so that his [Congee Cooking (Intermediate)] skill wouldn't go to waste.

Since the restaurant was too busy for Jiang Jiankang to handle alone during lunchtime, Jiang Feng had the chance to help cook some food. That helped him raise his [Fire Control] and [Seasoning] skills quite a large amount. While he was staring at the congee boiling in the pots, he couldn't help but think of an idea.

What if I make the Salix Leaf-shaped Steamed Bird's Nest Soup on my own…

Jiang Feng then quickly shook the thought off. If Wang Xiulian learned that her son has wasted countless bird's nests on experimenting, she would've killed him even if he was her flesh and blood.

Jiang Feng hummed as he julienned cucumbers. On the long plate next to him were shredded carrots, julienned white radishes, shredded and sliced potatoes, chilies, and sliced pumpkins. Just the color from the plate was enough to make a person hungry.

The reason that no meat could be seen around Jiang Feng wasn't that he didn't want to handle meat, but because Jiang Jiankang was an extreme meat lover. His criteria for meats far outweighed his requirement for greens. He had to process every single piece of meat on his own. From trimming to slicing and cutting, everything had to go through his own hands. He was making sure that each and every animal that died for the sake of the food had a worthy death.

”Ding! Main Quest [The Rising Restaurant] completed. Quest reward: [Container for Food Delivery].”

”Ding! New Main Quest found. [Gaining a Firm Reputation]: Gain acknowledgements from 1,000 customers for Healthy Restaurant.”

Jiang Feng accepted the quest and checked his status board.

[Gaining a Firm Reputation]: Gain acknowledgements from 1,000 customers for Healthy Restaurant. Quest Progress (2/1,000).

Tips: Acknowledgement from customers is vital to a newly established restaurant. Make Healthy Restaurant into the best restaurant around A University.

Making Healthy Restaurant into the best around the university wasn't going to be an easy feat to accomplish. Not only was there a street behind the campus that was filled with shops selling foods and drinks, but the Admin Department also had more than 20 restaurants near it. Adding up the canteens and small shops on the campus, there were more than 100 restaurants around the university. Among them were shops that had been there since 30 years ago.

Rising above these 100 restaurants wasn't going to be easy.