Chapter 539: Let You Open a Gourmet Shop, You Open for Business at Three in the Morning

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Actually, this week's business hours were suddenly changed to noon, and this couldn't be entirely blamed on him alone.

After all, he originally felt that operating in the evening was the most comfortable time slot, and he wouldn't easily change the time at all.

The reason he suddenly changed to noon this time was not Lu Feng's own intention at all, but rather the requirement of the new task released by the system this time.

This system task required him to serve one thousand different customers within one week, and limited business hours to two hours at noon.

Given the current popularity of Lu Family Restaurant, this task wasn't difficult at all.

Of course, because the task itself wasn't difficult, this time's system reward was no longer the cuisine fragment lottery that Lu Feng most wanted to collect, but was replaced with a simple and rough one million cash reward.

For Lu Feng, who now lived in a luxurious villa and drove a luxury car when going out, one million cash wasn't a reward that made him feel very excited.

But he still accepted this system task; there was no way around it, who made him like seeing the numbers on his bank card increase by a large amount?

Lu Feng raised his hand and pointed outside the restaurant door, smiling as he said to Hu Xiaoyun: "But I think this is actually quite good, look, they're still showing quite a lot of enthusiasm."

What he said wasn't wrong; outside Lu Family Restaurant, the diners queuing at this moment stretched from the shop entrance all the way to the parking lot, like a long dragon, looking very spectacular.

However, what was different from usual today was that several waiters wearing uniforms from the neighboring Western Restaurant would appear beside the queue from time to time.

They held packed meal boxes in their hands, delivering them to the diners queuing.

Besides the dishes customers requested to be packed when leaving, many waiters also held wallets, mobile phones, clothes, and other personal belongings, shouting loudly in the queue for the owners to claim them.

Just now, many diners, while eating at the neighboring Western Restaurant, heard that Lu Family Restaurant was open at noon today, and rushed over to queue in a hurry, even forgetting to take their personal belongings.

The Western Restaurant's waiters could only hold the things they left behind and search for the owners one by one in the queue.

This scene made the queuing scene today much livelier than usual, and it indeed looked quite spectacular.

Lu Feng looked at the lively crowd outside the door, and a smile appeared on his face.

He turned around and walked toward the storage room, his steps very firm; he was going to start preparing ingredients.

Since so many diners were willing to trust him, he naturally had to be one hundred percent careful, making every dish with the most perfect flavor, to repay these people who had always supported him.

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On the second floor of Sunshinegarden Western Restaurant.

After eating the dishes personally made by Yang Zhenguang, Guo Mingyuan, looking full of spring breeze pride, brought several people from the company and the new management, laughing and talking as they walked out of the private room and headed downstairs.

"Chef Yang's culinary skills are indeed well-deserved."

Guo Mingyuan said while walking and laughing to the people around him, his voice full of confidence: "Our Western Restaurant achieved remarkable results on its first day of opening today. If this momentum continues, I feel that within three months, this place will become known to everyone nearby!"

The accompanying management personnel nodded in agreement one after another.

"Director Guo has a unique vision, being able to think of establishing our restaurant at this location, plus with Chef Yang's culinary skills, our Western Restaurant would find it hard not to become popular!"

"Today's opening was very successful; our brand awareness will definitely soon become well-known in Jiangcheng!"

Guo Mingyuan listened to their praise, and the smile on his face deepened even more.

He felt very satisfied with the performance of the Western Restaurant's first day of business today.

The complete success of the opening ceremony, plus confidence in his own brand, and affirmation of Chef Yang Zhenguang's culinary skills.

All of this made Guo Mingyuan feel that their Western Restaurant opened on Food Street would not be difficult to grow bigger and stronger, and create new glory in the future.

A group of people laughed and talked as they walked down the stairs; when they were close to the first floor, Guo Mingyuan, who was walking at the front, inexplicably felt something was off.

The hall downstairs was unusually quiet, without the laughter and cheer he had imagined.

"The first floor is quite quiet; I didn't expect the customers here to have such high dining quality."

Guo Mingyuan muttered to himself while going downstairs, finding a very reasonable explanation for himself.

But when he walked down the stairs and clearly saw the scene of the first-floor hall, the whole person was suddenly stunned in place.

The hall that was originally full of customers was now empty; no wonder it felt so quiet when coming downstairs.

There were only some waiters standing in the corners of the hall; although they still stood with dignified and imposing postures, their eyes were full of helplessness.

The management personnel who came down with Guo Mingyuan were also stunned one after another at this moment, and the sounds of joking and laughing stopped abruptly.

A strong sense of embarrassment suddenly spread through the air.

Guo Mingyuan stood at the stairway entrance, only feeling his face getting a bit hot.

Just now when coming down, he had been talking about the restaurant's advantages all the way and envisioning future glory.

He didn't expect this slap in the face to come so quickly.

Those boastful words just now seemed to still be echoing in his ears at this moment, but now listening to them, they seemed like a huge joke.

Guo Mingyuan clenched his fists and walked toward the restaurant gate without saying a word.

Just as he reached the door, he was attracted by the lively noise outside; he subconsciously glanced in the direction the sound came from, and his pupils suddenly shrank in surprise.

In sharp contrast to the coldness inside the restaurant, at the entrance of the neighboring Lu Family Restaurant at this moment, there was a queue so long its tail couldn't be seen.

And when he looked carefully, most of the queuing diners were holding takeout boxes printed with their own restaurant's logo!

Could it be that the people on this Food Street, when eating Western food, didn't like sitting in an elegant restaurant, but preferred to take it away instead?

Such an absurd thought suddenly flashed through Guo Mingyuan's mind.

He shook his head hard, trying to dispel this obviously unrealistic idea.

But looking at those diners holding takeout boxes from their own restaurant, yet queuing obediently at the neighboring restaurant's door, Guo Mingyuan's expression became increasingly serious.

He turned his head, glanced around the restaurant, and saw that at the back kitchen door, Yang Zhenguang was speaking with a solemn expression to the hall manager.

Guo Mingyuan took a deep breath, walked with heavy steps, and went over with a posture of coming to question and accuse.

"What on earth is going on? What's the situation? Where have all the customers gone?"

Guo Mingyuan spoke in a heavy tone, looking at the restaurant manager with a grim expression as he asked.

The company management behind him, who had been invited to attend the restaurant's opening ceremony, were now all looking at one another, their brows furrowed, appearing completely baffled.

Just now, when they went upstairs, they had clearly seen that the restaurant was still bustling and full of guests.

How could there be no one left after just the time it takes to eat a meal?