Chapter 550

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Noon the next day.

Lu Feng drove his black Maybach, slowly entering the Food Street parking lot.

He had just parked steadily and pushed open the car door, glancing toward his restaurant, when he was instantly stunned, a look of surprise on his face.

In the past, when he arrived at the shop an hour early to prepare ingredients, the diners often had not yet started queuing.

Even after Hu Xiaoyun arrived and the diners began queuing, the line usually extended only to the intersection of Food Street.

But today, he had just arrived at Food Street, and judging by appearances, the line had already been there for some time.

Moreover, today's line was much longer than before, extending from the restaurant entrance all the way to the parking lot side.

And at the end of the line, people were still constantly joining, making it even livelier than usual.

Lu Feng got out of the car, slowly walking toward the shop along the line, his gaze slowly scanning the diners in the queue.

His memory had always been excellent; for every diner who had come to the shop, even if they had eaten only once, he could clearly remember their appearance and the dishes they had ordered.

He found that there were many unfamiliar faces in today's line.

And these people shared one trait: they were all dressed very neatly and elegantly.

Lu Feng thought for a moment and roughly figured out the reason.

The high-end Western restaurant separated from his shop by only one wall had put in a lot of effort for promotion during the period before opening.

Relying on the inherent appeal of the high-end restaurant, it indeed brought some new customers to Food Street who came specifically for their restaurant.

These customers came to Food Street originally intending to go straight to the exquisitely decorated Western restaurant next door.

But when they saw the long line at the entrance of Lu Family Restaurant, their curiosity was instantly aroused.

They simply could not understand why this small restaurant next door, whose storefront did not look particularly eye-catching, could attract so many people to queue so long even before the shop doors opened.

Once people became curious, they would be driven by curiosity and couldn't help but want to try it.

Thus, many diners who originally planned to dine at the Western restaurant followed along and queued at the entrance of Lu Family Restaurant.

Actually, such a situation had started from the first day the Western restaurant next door opened yesterday.

Those customers who had originally been attracted by the Western restaurant, after coming to Lu Family Restaurant to taste Lu Feng's culinary skills, all praised it highly.

Many people, after eating, even specifically asked Hu Xiaoyun about Lu Family Restaurant's business hours, and many joined the group chat "Lu Boss Business Notice Group."

Obviously, these people had all been completely won over by Lu Feng's culinary skills, treating Lu Family Restaurant as their regular place from now on, and no longer had any thought of going to the Western restaurant next door.

This situation reminded Lu Feng of what Zhu Chang, who often came to the shop to eat, had once said to him: "Boss Lu, your culinary skills, let alone on this side of Food Street, even in our entire Jiang City, are an invincible existence! No matter which shop competes with you, they will all be beaten by you!"

Looking at it now, what Zhu Chang said back then was not false at all.

Lu Feng walked to the restaurant entrance and glanced toward the Western restaurant next door.

At this moment, the Western restaurant still had two rows of waiters enthusiastically welcoming customers entering the shop, but compared to his side, it was much colder.

"It seems this Western restaurant next door has done me a big favor."

Lu Feng couldn't help but smile, sighing inwardly.

This time's system task happened to be receiving new customers.

Now, relying on the promotion of the Western restaurant next door, it actually attracted many new customers to his restaurant side.

Judging by appearances, this time's system task could be completed ahead of schedule again.

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At the entrance of the Western restaurant next door, Yang Zhenguang stood with his hands behind his back not far from the door.

His all-white chef's uniform stood out particularly conspicuously among the crowd.

At this moment, there was no longer any of his previous high spirits on his face; he looked at the bustling scene at the entrance of Lu Family Restaurant not far away with a very complex gaze.

Yang Zhenguang looked at his own Western restaurant side; through the floor-to-ceiling windows, he could clearly see that about half of the tables in the first-floor hall were empty, looking rather cold and deserted.

Before the restaurant opened, he had been full of confidence that the scene of the restaurant being full every day would not come true as he wished.

As long as Lu Family Restaurant opened for business, the Western restaurant could not even reach half of its occupancy rate.

Yang Zhenguang lowered his head to look at his own hands, falling into a bit of self-doubt.

These hands had once created countless delicacies and won many cooking awards domestically and internationally.

But now, he had lost to the young chef next door.

After Yang Zhenguang went back last night, he almost did not sleep all night.

The words on those customers' feedback forms kept replaying in his mind, and he could never figure out how his pride, Swedish Meatballs, could not compare to Lu Feng's Lion's Head.

Could it be that his decades of culinary foundation could not even compare to a home-cooked dish of the other party?

"Sigh, what's wrong with our general manager?"

The waiter responsible for greeting guests at the entrance secretly glanced at Yang Zhenguang's back with the corner of her eye, maintaining a standard smile on her face, her voice extremely low, asking her colleague beside her in a low voice.

The smile on her face had been maintained for over an hour, and the muscles on her face were somewhat stiff.

But the general manager had been standing at the entrance this whole time, making her not even dare to relax for a moment.

The waiter beside her also maintained a smile, responding in a low voice: "Who knows? He's been standing here for over an hour, motionless, who knows what he's pondering."

"Sigh, the general manager is just standing here, my face is almost frozen from smiling, and I dare not stop, it's too painful."

The previous waiter complained in a low voice while trying hard to maintain the smile on her face.

"Me too."

The other waiter said with deep sympathy, then with a hint of confusion in her eyes: "What on earth is wrong with the general manager? He doesn't go back to the kitchen to cook, what is he standing at the entrance for?"

At this moment, the waiter Xiao Lin, who was seeing customers out, heard their conversation. She still maintained a proper smile on her face, and said softly in her mouth: "You still can't tell? The head chef is looking at the Lu Family Restaurant next door. He probably saw our restaurant's customers being snatched away by them and got stimulated."

While these waiters were chatting, the smiles on their faces never changed, and their voices were kept very low, making it completely impossible to tell they were talking.

Whenever customers entered or exited the Western Restaurant, they could still find time to greet the customers.

This was the result of professional training. Even while secretly chatting, they still did not forget to make customers feel warmly welcomed, and would absolutely not let customers feel the slightest perfunctoriness.