Chapter 62 (1/2)

Chapter 62: Golden Eggs

“Boss Yuan, are your Herbal Tea Eggs golden eggs?” A seemingly high-spirited man with short hair asked curiously while holding a briefcase under his arm.

“Do you want to try?” Yuan Zhou asked him back directly.

“Well, no thanks. I couldn’t afford to eat one of those expensive golden eggs.” He refused Yuan Zhou’s proposal without slightest hesitation.

“Ok.”

Although he failed in promoting his Herbal Tea Eggs, Yuan Zhou didn’t appear to be upset. It didn’t matter even if no customers tried his eggs. Actually, he was just curious about the original price and ingredients of the Herbal Tea Eggs.

Ever since the ancient times, tea had always been enjoyed by the nobles. It was basically a luxury good. Since the rapid social development decreased the cost of the tea leaves, ordinary people could afford to drink the tea now.

In recent times, it was merely an ordinary drink.

While Yuan Zhou was lost in thought, the Division Chief of the tax bureau walked towards the restaurant with the Vice Division Chief Lee in tow.

“Division Chief, this is it, the one with the most customers.” The bald Vice Division Chief Lee led the way in the front while the Division Chief slowly followed behind him, looking around the small street from time to time.

The surname of the Division Chief was Lin. He was not young, 48 years old this year. He had been in the current position of Division Chief for years, thus was familiar with the surroundings. All the restaurants in this street depended on the personnel from the several office buildings and inhabitants from the two residential estates nearby for customers. It was a peaceful place but that also meant there were not many visitors.

Seated in a sparsely populated place like this, the restaurant could still obtain such high revenue. There were presumably no problems, since so many people were still waiting in line at the entrance of the restaurant.

“Division Chief, maybe I can buy some dishes for you and take them back to eat. Look, there are too many people here,” Vice Division Chief Lee suggested when they saw the queue of more than 20 people at the entrance.

“Never mind. Let’s wait in line. When it’s our turn, we can buy and take away the dishes. The restaurant isn’t big, so I think most of the customers would also order takeout.” Division Chief Lin was experienced. His wife and children all loved to eat the delicious specialties, thus he often went out to buy some for them.

“All right. Let’s wait in line.” Vice Division Chief Lee had no dissent about that.

“Is this your first time here?” the man waiting ahead of them suddenly turned around and asked.

“That’s right. What’s the matter?” Vice Division Chief Lee was slightly dumbfounded thus didn’t say anything. It was the Division Chief who asked curiously.

“You can’t buy dishes and take them away. You could only eat them here at the restaurant.” When the man heard their answer, he told them decisively and straightforward.

“The restaurant is so small, it will be pretty troublesome if they don’t allow takeout,” Division Chief Lin continued saying.

“I don’t know why, but Boss Yuan has adhered to this principle firmly. If he says you could only order one serving, then it’s indeed one serving. If he says you can’t order takeouts, then you can’t.” The man shrugged, revealing that he didn’t know either.

“Then the boss will probably lose much business, wouldn’t he?” Vice Division Chief Lee was puzzled.

“With Boss Yuan’s culinary skills, opening such a small restaurant is unworthy of his talent. On the contrary, that’s good for us. Only in this way could we eat the delicacies he cooks,” The man summarized in delight.

“This Boss Yuan doesn’t seem to know much about running a business.” Apart from the caprice, Vice Division Chief Lee found another drawback of Yuan Zhou’s.

“Actually, it seems that the boss has his own understanding of running a business.” Division Chief Lin didn’t seem very concerned about that.

It turned out that this restaurant didn’t seem to have any problems. Other affairs, such as how they operated the restaurant were all within the owner’s authority. However, now he was quite curious about the dishes, wondering if they were truly as delicious as told by the others waiting here.

It wasn’t a long wait. Within an hour, it was their turn.

After the two people entered the door, Vice Division Chief Lee looked directly at his target, the price list.

Division Chief Lin, on the other hand, acted more casually. He just curiously looked around the restaurant with interest.