Chapter 163 (1/2)

Chapter 163: Free Publicity

The first customer Yuan Zhou met in the early morning was the staff of the take-out partner Xiao Wen rather than a real customer.

“You are Boss Yuan, aren’t you?” Xiao Wen ran into the restaurant with quick steps, even ahead of Mu Xiaoyun.

“Yes, I am,” Yuan Zhou nodded.

“Good. Yesterday you pasted a notice on the door saying to look for take-out partners. We happen to be in this business. Can we have a talk?” Looking at the people in a long line behind, Xiao Wen said with an embarrassed manner.

“No need. I refuse,” Yuan Zhou refused flatly.

“If it’s the timing problem, I can wait until you are free and talk to you later,” Xiao Wen was rather persistent.

“I’m sorry. The business hours are going to start now. What do you like to eat?” Yuan Zhou asked politely.

“Boss Yuan, what do you think of my proposal?” Xiao Wen really didn’t understand.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t need it, thus I refuse. Business hours have arrived,” after finish speaking, Yuan Zhou said no more and just waited for Mu Xiaoyun to report him the dishes that were ordered.

“But the notice that you pasted yesterday…?” She was interrupted by the customers waiting to order dishes even before she finished talking.

The morning time was always quite tense. When they discovered Xiao Wen didn’t intend to eat, the customers behind her immediately pushed her out of the line. After all, Yuan Zhou’s restaurant was only 30 square meters or so.

“This boss is really odd,” Xiao Wen complained at the door of the restaurant angrily.

However, it didn’t really affect those customers and breakfast time still finished on time. The 200 Baked Egg Cakes, naturally, were sold out. After all, he ate 4 cakes and there were only 196 left for the customers.

When breakfast time had barely finished, the phone in Yuan Zhou’s pants pocket rang. He wiped his hands dry and answered the phone. He had thought it from any take-out partners, but the voice that came from the other end told him it was not.

“Bro, just wait for me to send you a great gift,” at the other end of the phone, Sun Ming said that from nowhere.

“What do you mean?” Yuan Zhou asked back directly.

“Haha, you’ll know it then,” after that, Sun Ming hung off the phone bluntly.

“This guy is always doing inexplicable things.” Yuan Zhou held the phone and watched the screen for a while before putting it back into his pocket.

Then he began to clear up the kitchen. Although the system would clean the restaurant automatically, it was the obligation of the chef to keep the kitchen clean, except washing bowls of course.

Sun Ming started to rub his hands together as if he were going to do something big.

The matter that made Sun Ming quite excited was, nevertheless, very simple. In their foodie forum, somebody privately organized an activity, to display one’s own list of cuisines.

This was to recommend indirectly the places where they believed there were tasty dishes. This forum was originally set up for foodies, which could be easily judged from its name “Danshi Forum”.

Sun Ming would occasionally wander around in the forum when he was free. For the past half month, however, he had been busy with purchasing goods and checking the stock count, hence didn’t touch the computer at all. Once he had time to log in to the forum and check the latest information, he obviously saw the notifications at the top.

When Sun Ming tapped open the notification and saw the content, it was already fairly late. This was because the first place was about to be decided.

The first place appeared to well deserve the rank. The candidate listed details of several restaurants where he had breakfast, what he ate and the location of the restaurants, as well as the reasons why they were unknown to others.

The lunch was described complexly and sincerely. There were detailed introductions of all restaurants that he had gone to and each dish he had eaten. So was the dinner.

The candidate was apparently good at writing. The description of the cuisines increased people’s appetite as soon as they read it. After checking, Sun Ming discovered that the post had been released five days ago. While scrolling the page downward, he found somebody replied that he had already gone there to taste the dishes and they were truly quite nice.