Chapter 535: Let You Open a Gourmet Shop, You Open for Business at 3 AM

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Just as the food runner walked into the private room, his gaze fell on the many company leaders in suits sitting around the dining table, and he immediately felt a surge of panic.

It's over! All the big company leaders are here; if he were to tell them what was happening downstairs right now in front of them, the consequences would be unthinkable.

"Xiao Li, what's wrong? Is something the matter?"

Seeing that the person who walked in was the food runner from downstairs, the Hall Manager immediately walked over to him and asked with a puzzled look.

The food runner smiled stiffly at the people in the private room, then swallowed hard and said cautiously to the Hall Manager, "Uh... Manager Liu, there's a bit of a situation in the front hall on the first floor; you need to go down and take a look."

In front of all the company leaders, he simply didn't have the courage to spell out the detailed situation on the first floor, so he could only put it vaguely like that.

"Hehe, I'm sure it's just that there are too many guests downstairs, all the seats are taken, and many more guests have nowhere to sit, so they came to find Manager Liu to figure something out!"

A Department Manager sitting near the door raised an eyebrow and joked with a smile.

"That's for sure!"

Another person sitting next to him nodded in agreement and said with a laugh: "Just now when we came up, I saw that the hall downstairs was already almost full; I bet there are even more people now. I didn't expect the customer flow on this Food Street to be so huge, even more than in the city center! It seems General Manager Guo made the right choice to open a branch here!"

Everyone at the dining table nodded in agreement, and no one noticed the unnatural look on the food runner's face, nor the cold sweat soaking his back.

"Alright, Manager Liu, go downstairs and greet the guests; we don't need you watching over us here anymore."

Guo Mingyuan waved his hand at the Hall Manager with a smile, signaling that he didn't need to stay in the private room.

The situation he had in mind was roughly the same as what everyone had just said.

After all, when he came earlier, he had seen it with his own eyes.

After the opening ceremony ended, the number of customers who followed the crowds to watch the excitement and entered the restaurant was not small.

"General Manager Guo, I'll go downstairs to take a look first; call me anytime if there's anything."

Seeing Guo Mingyuan speak, the Hall Manager said respectfully, then quickly walked out of the private room with the food runner.

Watching the two leave, Guo Mingyuan agreed even more with everyone's guess just now.

There must be too many guests downstairs right now, and the waiters are a bit overwhelmed.

His mind had already begun calculating whether, once this restaurant stabilized its operations, he should acquire a few adjacent shops to expand the area of the first floor.

After all, the foot traffic he witnessed in the restaurant today was far more than he had expected.

However, he didn't know that the actual situation at this moment was exactly the opposite of what he imagined.

The food runner Xiao Li was notified by the waiter Xiao Lin to go to the second floor to report to the Hall Manager.

During this period, Xiao Lin was busy to the point of being flustered on the first floor; she had just prepared to get a takeout box for a table of guests when she was stopped by another table of guests halfway there.

Her ears were filled with urging voices like "Waiter, takeaway" and "Hurry up, I'm in a rush."

While she was flusteredly dealing with the endless urging of guests, she was also secretly observing the current situation in the front hall.

In the short time of less than five minutes it took for the food runner Xiao Li to go upstairs, another third of the guests in the first-floor hall had left, and the speed at which guests were decreasing in the restaurant was getting faster and faster.

Looking at the empty tables and chairs in the hall, the waiter Xiao Lin's heart sank more and more, and cold sweat couldn't help but break out on her forehead.

This is too abnormal!

Today is the first day of the grand opening; clearly, there is not a single problem with the food taste, service, or environment.

So why would such a situation occur?

In the blink of an eye, another wave of guests left the restaurant.

By now, the empty seats in the hall were already more than half again as many as the occupied tables.

The waiter Xiao Lin could no longer hold back; if she didn't find out the reason soon, when the Hall Manager came down, she wouldn't know how to explain the current situation to him.

She definitely didn't want to be unemployed on the second day of her first day at work.

Xiao Lin took a deep breath, quickly caught up with a guest carrying a takeout box walking toward the door, and showed a polite smile on her face: "Sir, excuse me, could you spare a few minutes? I'd like to ask..."

"Sorry, I have urgent business now and no time to chat with you; if you have questions, ask someone else."

Before the waiter Xiao Lin could finish her words, the man waved his hand hurriedly, bypassed Xiao Lin directly, and walked quickly toward the restaurant door.

His manner was just like rushing to catch a high-speed train about to depart.

Seeing this, Xiao Lin couldn't forcibly stop him; watching his hurried back, she could only politely say goodbye behind him: "Okay, welcome to visit our Sunshine Garden Western Restaurant again."

She wasn't discouraged and quickly shifted her target of inquiry to another guest who was preparing to leave.

"I've already paid, goodbye."

However, this person was even more straightforward; before Xiao Lin could start asking, he waved his hand and said.

As soon as the words fell, the person had already walked out of the restaurant gate.

Just like that, the waiter Xiao Lin stood near the restaurant door and stopped several people in a row.

However, those people all had an inexplicable urgency on their faces, as if staying here even one more second would delay something very important.

No one was willing to stop and patiently listen to her inquiry, let alone answer; they all slipped away very quickly.

Fortunately, hard work pays off; just when Xiao Lin was almost about to give up, she finally stopped a guest who was willing to stop and listen to her.

Besides, there was also a piece of good news and a piece of bad news placed before the waiter Xiao Lin.

The good news is that now there are finally no more guests leaving the restaurant.

The bad news is that the reason no guests are leaving is because there aren't many guests left in the restaurant.

The guests in the first-floor hall have almost all left, and even many guests in the second-floor private rooms have left.

The first-floor hall, which was originally packed, now only has a few scattered tables of guests still dining leisurely.

The waiters in the hall are all now pale as death, bowing their heads and silently clearing the tables.

The customer who was willing to stop and let Xiao Lin ask questions had not hurried off like the others for a reason.

Because he had already predicted that even if he rushed to queue at Lu Family Restaurant now, he probably wouldn't make it in time.

Not to mention those in the group who were hurrying this way, just those who had run out of this restaurant alone numbered no fewer than a hundred.

Without even going out to look, one could already imagine that the queue at the door of Lu Family Restaurant had long since lost sight of its tail.

Even if he went now, he probably wouldn't catch the limited new dish mentioned in the group.