Chapter 243

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

The next morning, Lu Feng arrived early at Xingda Plaza in the city center.

Dayang Seafood Buffet Restaurant was on the fifth floor of the largest shopping mall, and Lu Feng took the elevator to the restaurant door in no time.

With a "ding," the elevator doors opened, and Dayang Seafood Buffet Restaurant was right in front of him.

Lu Feng walked to the restaurant door and saw a female manager in a cream-colored suit standing by the counter talking on the phone, her tone carrying some dissatisfaction and anxiety: "Master Liu, what time is it now, why haven't you arrived yet... What? Taking temporary leave? You took leave, where am I supposed to find someone to make the staple food?"

The other end said something unknown, and the female manager hung up the phone somewhat irritably, turning around to walk into the restaurant.

She looked up and just happened to see Lu Feng walking in from outside, and immediately a smile appeared on her face: "Hello, sir, are you here to dine?"

"Hello, I'd like to ask, do you need a temporary fried noodle chef here?"

Lu Feng took out the resume he had prepared in advance and handed it over with a smile.

Calling it a resume, it actually just wrote some basic information, and the work experience section only wrote "many years of fried noodle experience, can start work at any time."

The female manager's eyes lit up; just now she had been worrying about the temporary leave of the staple food area chef, and unexpectedly a ready-made temporary worker had been delivered to her door.

Although there weren't many customers coming to the restaurant to eat staple food, the staple food area couldn't be left empty.

The female manager sized Lu Feng up from head to toe, seeing that he was neatly dressed and had a fresh temperament, his first impression was still not bad.

She asked Lu Feng a few casual questions, which counted as passing the interview, and then began to introduce things.

"We mainly make basic egg fried noodles and shredded pork fried noodles here, can you make them?"

Lu Feng's tone was composed, with a confident smile on his face: "I've been making fried noodles for quite a while, these are no problem."

With the master-level fried noodle technique given by the system, let alone these basic flavors, even fancy fried noodles were a piece of cake.

"That's perfect, come with me."

The female manager led Lu Feng into the restaurant, saying as she walked: "Our fried noodle chef has something temporary today and asked for half a day off; you just need to serve this noon peak crowd well."

The inside of the buffet restaurant looked more spacious than the outside, the seafood counter took up most of the area, and dozens of glass tanks raised various uncommon seafood.

Further inside were the barbecue area and the hot pot area, while the staple food area Lu Feng was responsible for was in the corner at the very back.

"You try making a portion of egg fried noodles first, let me see your technique."

The female manager handed over an apron and pointed to the ingredient rack beside her: "The ingredients are all placed on top, you can take whatever you want, no need to make it too complicated, as long as it suits the general public's taste."

Lu Feng nodded and glanced at the ingredients to be used.

This task used ingredients provided by the restaurant; he had originally been worried about the quality of the ingredients.

But after careful observation, he found that the ingredients here were still quite good.

But thinking about it, it was also right; although not many people came to the buffet restaurant to eat staple food, there were still people eating it.

Compared with the expensive seafood ingredients, how expensive could the staple food area's ingredients be even if they were good?

This restaurant's charges were not cheap; if inferior ingredients were used for the staple food, thereby affecting the restaurant's reputation, it would be a loss outweighing the gain.

After the pot on the stove was heated, Lu Feng poured in an appropriate amount of cooking oil.

When the oil was hot, he cracked in two eggs and quickly stirred them a few times with a spatula.

The golden egg liquid quickly became fluffy, cut by the spatula into evenly sized egg crumbles.

Next he put in a few pieces of green vegetables and stir-fried until just cooked, then put in a handful of wet noodles and quickly stir-fried a few times.

Then he added light soy sauce and a little salt to the pot, simply tossed the pot a few times, and the noodles in the pot tumbled in the air once before steadily landing back in the pot.

Finally, just before taking it out of the pot, Lu Feng added a small handful of chopped green onions, and a portion of egg fried noodles was done.

Throughout the whole process his movements were smooth and flowing, taking no more than two minutes from start to finish.

After the fried noodles came out of the pot, the female manager came over and sniffed, her eyes immediately lighting up: "Good culinary skill! More fragrant than what Master Liu makes!"

From then on, she was relieved about Lu Feng's culinary skill, and there was no need to ask anything else.

"You're Lu Feng, right? Then work hard at noon."

The female manager watched Lu Feng and continued introducing: "The salary for temporary workers here is one hundred yuan for half a day, you can get off work at two in the afternoon, is that okay with you?"

"No problem."

Lu Feng nodded and agreed; a salary of one hundred yuan meant nothing to him at all.

Anyway, he came here today mainly to complete the system's sign-in task, so it didn't matter even without the salary.

The female manager gave some more instructions about the restaurant's precautions, then left.

Lu Feng walked to the ingredient rack and looked at the quantity of ingredients.

The wet noodles used for making fried noodles were not many; judging by the appearance, it was probably enough to make about fifty portions.

The staple food at the buffet restaurant had always been almost ignored by everyone, so of course they wouldn't prepare too much.

Lu Feng shook his head somewhat helplessly.

Judging by the situation, he still had to resort to the limited purchase tactic.

By this time it was nearly noon, and wave after wave of diners came pouring into the shopping mall.

As more and more diners came to the fifth floor, Dayang Seafood Buffet Restaurant also welcomed its dining peak period.

The soothing light music in the restaurant was completely drowned out by the noisy voices, making it very lively.

The seafood area was undoubtedly the liveliest place; almost all diners headed straight for the seafood area as soon as they entered, and the dozen or so chefs responsible for handling seafood were a bit overwhelmed.

Compared with that, the staple food area in the corner seemed much colder and quieter.

Occasionally a customer would pass by carrying a full plate, but their gaze would only sweep over the "Staple Food Area" sign before immediately leaving without looking back.

Lu Feng didn't mind this; the system task only required making fifty portions of fried noodles, and it was still early now.

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The elevator doors on the fifth floor of the Shopping Mall slowly opened, and Zhou Yang and Luo Yong, two people with arms around each other's shoulders, came out of the elevator.

The two looked at the huge sign of the Dayang Seafood Buffet Restaurant opposite, their faces both bearing excitement that was hard to suppress.

They were university classmates, and after graduation they worked at the same sales Company nearby.

Yesterday they signed a big deal together, which not only got them a Bonus of nearly two months' Salary, but also earned them a day of paid leave.

In order to sign that deal, during this period they ate every day just casually making do with a bite.

The Department Manager saw they worked so hard, and specially Rewarded each of them with a single-person Consumption voucher for here.

Their Salary was not high, and big deals were not available Everyday.

Every month their Living Expenses were only one or two thousand yuan, and normally they were unwilling to come to such an Expensive place.

But today they had a free Consumption voucher, so no matter what they had to come and have a good meal.