18 Cappuccino (1/2)

Tom's carrot and stick approach was effective and construction progressed quickly.After the remodeling was done, the furniture began to arrive.Once again, the contractor assisted, even though his work was mostly done at that point.

Alan meticulously directed the workers with where he wanted everything.He wanted to match the design he'd made in the system perfectly.

Similarly, his kitchen was taking shape nicely.It looked like the kitchen of a modern French restaurant rather than some random cafe.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.When he went downstairs on the morning of the sixth day, he was completely broke but he had a fully functioning cafe.It was currently 6:00 AM.He was debating what sort of hours he wanted to keep.Now that he owned his own cafe he had much more freedom.

As he pondered this the system chimed in.

”Host, as mentioned earlier, system will be implementing rules now that the tutorial is over.Since Host is determining store hours at the moment, Host should know that system has already determined the ideal store hours.Host must only make sales between 6:30 AM and 8:00 PM.”

Alan actually didn't complain about that.Those hours felt fine.Frankly, they were a bit longer than he intended.He might open later in the mornings so he could sleep in a bit.He snickered a bit as he thought that.

Tom felt a shiver down his spine as he got ready to head in to work.”Something terrible must have just happened.”He said superstitiously.

Alan walked outside and looked at his cafe.The front of the building looked inviting.The glass windows looked in on the luxurious lounging area.

Across the window in fancy script was the name of the cafe:Lux Cafe.

Alan had hesistated about naming it Lux Cafe, but he ultimately decided on it since it reflected his end goal.

Walking back inside, Alan took out a small whiteboard with a string attached to it.He wrote the hours on it and hung it in the window.However, what he wrote was 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM.He smiled and then went upstairs to get an extra hour of sleep.

When he woke up again and prepared to open for business he heard a ding.

”System has detected that Host has successfully met the requirements to start the next mission.Issuing mission now.”