Chapter 166 Food Street and Food City (7000-character chapter)(1/2)
Is it wrong to look black? Is it good to be healthy and lustful?
To be honest, he really wanted to go over and remind these guys that your volume is so small that you can even hear punctuation marks.
I silently turned around and recorded the faces of these people. Although it would not make them lose the opportunity to queue up, at least I would have to deduct some of the weight.
He has such confidence now! Don’t accept it? Bear it!
"Boss Chen, you have finally woken up. I'm going to the restaurant to find you." Suddenly, Zhao Si came out of a teahouse in front of the left, waved his hand and walked over quickly, "Let's go, everyone is waiting for you."
"Everyone? Wait for me?" Chen Chong was suspicious.
"Oh, they are all restaurant owners in the food street. They are about the folk chef competition. Let's talk about the specific matters." Zhao Si glanced at the crowded streets and didn't say much.
"Okay, you lead the way." Chen Chong understood and followed the former quickly into the teahouse, leaving behind a stunned melon-eating crowd.
"He is the boss? So young?" I wonder who said in a shock, his tone was extremely sharp.
"I thought that such a popular restaurant, the owner must be a middle-aged man who has been obsessed with the kitchen for decades, but I didn't expect it..."
"It feels so comfortable. The boss's son did not offend him. He offended the boss directly. Looking at the look he glared at us just now, he obviously held a grudge."
"What should I do?"
"Don't be anxious. I'll order according to the most expensive dishes. I hope the boss can feel our sincerity!"
"This is a good method, OK."
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The decoration style of this teahouse is elegant and elegant, and the room is filled with a refreshing and faint tea fragrance, as if it can calm people down.
There are two young waiters on the first floor making tea for guests. They are skillful in their skills and are obviously proficient in tea art.
"They are on the second floor." Zhao Si did not stop and took Chen Chong directly to the second floor.
As soon as he arrived at the second floor, Chen Chong saw a large group of people sitting around a large round table. The house was filled with smoke and smelled solemn.
Li Jianbang sat in the main seat, next to him was a middle-aged man in a suit and tie, probably his secretary or assistant. Others were not unfamiliar with them, all of whom were restaurant owners in the food street, with familiar faces, but they couldn't name them.
In addition, Fatty Li was on the list and was giving a slightly awkward and polite smile.
"You kid, you have such a good business, but you like to sleep in. You don't know how to get up early to prepare more ingredients and absorb more customers." Li Jianbang had a stern face and spoke up and scolded him, looking as if he was disappointed.
Thinking back then, he got up early and went to bed late to achieve what he has today.
"It's okay, it's normal for young people to sleep in. It's not like us, who are older and have no sleepiness."
"Yes, yes, it's rare that our food street has produced talents, so it's okay to sleep for a while."
"This is the first time I have seen Boss Chen up close, capable, energetic, and energetic, and will become a great man in the future."
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Without Chen Chong's defense, a group of restaurant owners in their forties and fifties took the lead in speaking out and rushing to help him out.
Just kidding, this young man is now a treasure in the rise of the food street, and it is directly related to their own interests. Who dares to say that he is not? Li Jianbang can't do it either.
"You old fried dough sticks." Li Jianbang naturally couldn't be serious. He smiled bitterly and shook his head, signaling his assistant to give up the position to Chen Chong.
"Boss Chen, sit here." The assistant was quite sensible. While greeting Chen Chong, he brought himself a single bench to sit next to him.
"Old Li, is this good news to announce?" Chen Chong sat down and said half jokingly and half seriously.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he keenly realized that most restaurant owners looked bad and looked dodging. I am afraid that what they were about to hear should not be good news.
"Did Li Xiang not show you the information yesterday?" Li Jianbang was surprised.
"I've read it, it's just some game rules and game introductions." Chen Chong did not read it, but it did not prevent him from making a serious nonsense.
"That's true." Li Jianbang didn't hear anything unusual and sighed inexplicably, "The competition information is all about later. The most important thing now is that our food street has not collected enough places to participate, and there are only two days left before the competition begins."
"Aren't you waiting for the competition organizers to conduct preliminary screening of the participants? I'm still waiting." Chen Chong shrugged without a trace.
"It has been screened." Li Jianbang said with a wry smile.
"Hmm? When did it happen? Why don't I know?" Chen Chong looked surprised.
"It's yesterday." Li Jianbang rolled his eyes.
"Ah?" Chen Chong frowned, "Then why didn't they come to me?"
Hearing this, everyone's faces looked even more ugly, especially Fatty Li, who looked extremely depressed after cigarettes in his hand.
"Hmph, your business is so hot, who can you notice?" Li Jianbang shook his head, "But you have passed."
"Ah?" Chen Chong opened his mouth.
"What? You're so embarrassed to 'ah'. The two other judges are old, so they have been waiting in line for two hours to give you a score! You're so good, you've never come out in the kitchen." Although Li Jianbang's tone was stern, there was an indescribable pride between the lines.
In the past few competitions, these restaurant owners smiled at the reviewers, fearing that they would be negligent, but they still couldn't pass. But now? The reviewers took the initiative to queue up to taste it, and they couldn't even see the boss! What's even more incredible is that they really passed and could not find any faults!
Li Jianbang couldn't help but think of the scene when he asked the two judges yesterday afternoon, who was sweating profusely but praised Chen Chong's dishes.
He really straightened his waist.
"Isn't this good?" Chen Chong muttered.
"What's the best? Only you and Zhao Si pass through our food street, everyone else, alas..." Li Jianbang sighed helplessly.
Chen Chong understood, no wonder the restaurant owners here were extremely depressed. It turned out that they had lost the election. It can be seen that this so-called preliminary screening is actually more difficult than imagined.
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He suddenly realized something, "Then according to your opinion, our food street has lost the qualification to participate in the team competition?"
When Li Jianbang and Li Xiang came to find him, they said that the team competition must be composed of three selected personnel to be eligible to participate.
"It's not entirely true to say that you're losing your qualification." Li Jianbang looked at Fat Li, who was sitting opposite him like a meat ball.
"Old Li, don't look at me like this, I'm anxious. If I knew that the two old men were judges at that time, I would definitely make one for them alone!" Fat Li put the cigarette butts out in the ashtray. As soon as he finished speaking, he thought of Chen Chong's experience and suddenly lost his temper.
Others don’t know what the review is, but won’t they still pass it?
"What does it mean?" Chen Chong couldn't understand what the two of them were talking to each other and couldn't help but ask.
"Hmph, this is thanks to his waiter. If the waiter hadn't been sharp-eyed, he saw the two people shaking their heads while eating, and felt something was wrong, so he quickly knocked over the soy sauce into the fried rice on the grounds of wiping the table." Li Jianbang smiled bitterly, "Later, Fat Li was also smart. After receiving the news, he immediately shouted that someone would take away the two plates of failed fried rice, so he barely escaped the disaster."
Upon hearing this, Chen Chong looked at Fatty Li with a strange expression. This guy is not very good at cooking, but his luck is really good.
"What to escape means passing through?"
"If they didn't pass, they said they would come over to review him tomorrow." Li Jianbang shook his head, "I guess it was because they were queuing up with you for too long yesterday afternoon, which made them unable to bear it, and they had no energy to continue the review later."
"Don't lift me up, it has nothing to do with me." Chen Chong waved his hand quickly, always feeling that the other party had bad intentions.
Li Jianbang didn't mind his mind, and looked around and said, "Everyone, let Fat Li think of how to pass. If they can compete on behalf of the food street, it will be equivalent to making our entire food street famous, right?"
"Mr. Li, aren't you sincerely watching us make a fool of yourself? We are all people who have been defeated, so how can we give others guidance?" A middle-aged woman laughed at herself.
"That's right. Moreover, even if you can participate in the competition, you're still being abused by the ungrateful wolf in the Food City." Another thin middle-aged man echoed: "I think it's better to let it go."
"You can't say that. Those people are ruthless and unrighteous. We have to look forward. Now, we still have Boss Chen in charge." Li Jianbang didn't say a few words, and then led the topic to Chen Chong.
Seeing this, the others didn't say anything and looked at Chen Chong quietly.
Chen Chong frowned slightly and suddenly realized that today's party was a set set set for him by Li Jianbang, but he was curious about what was going on in the Food City? Moreover, looking at everyone's expressions, in addition to the fear, there was also a strong sense of resentment and reluctance.
Could it be that there is an unknown secret?
"Old Li, what's going on in this food city?" Not only Chen Chong was also questionable, but also Zhao Si, who opened yesterday.
"This..." Li Jianbang exchanged glances with everyone and suddenly sighed, "This matter has to start several years ago. At that time, our food street was still very popular, and at least in the entire university town, it could also be ranked among the top ten food areas."
Chen Chong and Zhao Si were both cheering up, and the latter also dispersed a cigarette for everyone present. For a moment, the sound of ignition was endless, just like listening to a story, listening carefully.
"Putting aside the retention rate of customers, at least the daily traffic volume exceeds 10,000 people." Li Jianbang took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and continued: "At that time, we had three of the most popular restaurants here, which were considered pillars of the food street.
The restaurant owners are named Du Wenlong, Li Shenghui and Zhao Xiaokang. In this case, I and the board of directors decided to inject a lot of funds into them for publicity and promotion, hoping to use them as the basis to make the overall benefits of the food street reach a new level."
At this point, Li Jianbang suddenly clasped his fists at the restaurant owner here, "Sorry, everyone, if you knew that things would have developed like this, you should have spent the money on the environmental transformation of the food street, and you would not be like this now."
"Mr. Li, you have been blaming yourself for many years. You did not do anything wrong with this matter. If you think from the perspective of others, we will also use our funds to the most worthy of investment." The middle-aged woman waved her hand.
"Yes, no one is a god, and it is impossible to predict the future clearly. And then again, even if the food street is transformed into a beautiful and beautiful way, we still can't hold on with our brushes. We still know this." A middle-aged man who is in a similar shape to Fatty Li sighed.
"What about later?" Chen Chong asked.
"Later, these three people became more and more famous and made more and more money. Even Du Wenlong, the most famous of the three, was inexplicably named a Michelin-star chef."
"Who gave him a review?" Zhao Si was curious.
"It's a foreign professional institution." Li Jianbang disdained this. "Everyone knows that our Chinese food culture is profound and profound, and it is not something foreigners can understand. In my opinion, those so-called Michelin one-star, two-star, and three-star chefs are not as good as many of our housewives."
"Hahaha..." Everyone burst into laughter.
"Of course, we can't be arrogant. After all, the culture is different, and the understanding is different." Li Jianbang cursed his smile. "It's a pity that Du Wenlong didn't understand. After receiving this title, his ambitions rose and became uncontrollable. So he joined hands with the other two to set up a food city on the sports university. Not only that, they persuaded more than half of the merchants to dig out all the main forces of the food street."
"Bang, I get angry every time I talk about this. I am really a group of ungrateful guys. I forgot how we all used to treat them. I give them whatever we lack. If I don't do business, I have to support his restaurant! Why is he rising up? It's not a problem we have to give!" The thin middle-aged man smashed the table with anger, and the more he thought about it, he became more and more angry.
"Forget it." The middle-aged woman comforted, "It's also a fault that we are not good at being good and our skills are not as good as others."
Everyone sighed and fell silent.
"Is there such a thing?" Zhao Si rubbed his hair hard, "I, Zhao Si, look down on such a villain the most in my life."
To be continued...