Dare to cook

Chapter 207 Zou Yu's Invitation

The program "Chinese Restaurant" is of great significance to Zheng Hailan.

In the entertainment circle, programs like reality shows are updated very quickly.

Many shows that used to be very popular can hardly survive three seasons.

Even if some programs achieve the fourth and fifth seasons, it is inevitable that due to the loss of main guests and main creators, the ratings will decline and word-of-mouth will decline.

The program of Hua Restaurant was first proposed by Zou Yu.

But the specific executor has always been Zheng Hailan.

In order to continue this program, Zheng Hailan has put a lot of effort into it over the past two years, but unfortunately the results are not very good.

Especially after the season five finale.

Due to the unsatisfactory ratings and the increasing production costs every season, the relevant producers' evaluation of the potential of this program is getting lower and lower.

If it weren't for Zou Yu's support, I'm afraid Hua Restaurant's production budget would have begun to shrink.

However, even with the support of Zou Yu, Zheng Hailan can only do two more seasons at most.

If after two seasons, Hua Restaurant can't raise the ratings, then the fate of Hua Restaurant can be imagined.

Zheng Hailan also watched the recorded content of the sixth season in advance.

To be honest, the quality of the sixth season is better than that of the fifth season, but the content of the sixth season alone is still not enough to reverse the declining ratings of Hua Restaurant in one fell swoop.

If Zheng Hailan wants to continue this variety show, he must make enough outstanding changes in the seventh season.

Therefore, after discussing with Zou Yu, she decided to introduce two professional chefs among the "Hua Restaurant Partners".

It is also for this reason that Zheng Hailan is so eager to persuade Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu to become partners and guests of Hua Restaurant.

In Zheng Hailan's opinion, there is no more suitable candidate than Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu.

Yao Yu was surprised when he heard that Zheng Hailan was willing to advance the recording time of Hua Restaurant to June or July.

He thought about it, but was still a little embarrassed:
"I'm afraid I may not have time in June."

"Because I have already signed a contract with a public relations company, and I will go to Anhui Tonglin in early June to be in charge of the catering for an international exchange meeting."

"And mid-June is also the day when my sister will take the college entrance examination. When she takes the college entrance examination, I have to stay in Shanghai to take care of her."

Hearing this, Zheng Hailan's mouth twitched imperceptibly.

Although the show "Chinese Restaurant" has been on the decline for some time, in the eyes of many popular stars, it is still a trump card program worth fighting for.

But Yao Yu kept pushing back and seemed not to want to participate in the recording.

Yao Yu's evasion made Zheng Hailan a little upset.

But she didn't show it.

Zheng Hailan glanced at Zou Yu, and saw that Zou Yu didn't intend to interrupt, so he said slowly:

"Then what if we adjust the recording time from early July to mid-August? Do you have time to participate in the recording?"

"Yao Yu, we are sincerely inviting you and Lu Chenyu. I hope you will think about it. This is a win-win for everyone."

After hearing this, Yao Yu pondered for a moment and said:
"If the recording time is in July or August, then there will definitely be no problem on my side."

When Zheng Hailan saw that Yao Yu had finally given a correct sentence, he immediately felt better.

At the side, Lu Chenyu saw that her eyes turned to him again, so he smiled and said:

"This matter is too sudden. I want to think about it. Can you give me a few days to think about it? Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, I will give you an answer after the contest is over."

Now that Yao Yu has given an answer, Zheng Hailan doesn't want to appear too anxious.

She nodded with a smile, and said with a very understanding look: "OK, no problem."

At this moment, Zou Yu took a sip of his wine and said with a smile:
"Yao Yu, as I said before, I have two things I want to talk to you about."

"It seems that we have reached a consensus on the first matter. As for the other matter, I want to ask you, are you interested in coming to my 'Prehistoric' theme park as the food and beverage supervisor?"

The prehistoric theme park that Zou Yu mentioned is actually the same as Disney Park and Harry Potter Theme Park.

It is a Chinese mythology theme park based on the story of the ancient gods.

More than ten years ago, Zou Yu's film and television company suddenly focused its efforts on bringing a large number of mythical Chinese fairy and demon stories to the big screen.

As a result, there was a wave of "Chinese gods and demons movies" all over the world.

From "Wukong Returns" to "Nezha Comes into the World", from "Jiang Ziya Conferring the Gods", to the special effects movies created with Tianpeng, Yang Jian, and the Great Sage Huntian as the protagonists.

It can be said that since Hollywood's "Marvel Universe" series of movies swept the world and harvested countless box office.

Several of China's top film and television companies, led by Zou Yu, also started more than ten years ago, following the rise of the "Marvel Universe", and successfully incubated China's unique "Huaxia Gods and Demons Universe" system movies.

Ten years ago, it was precisely because of the all-round rise of "Chinese Gods and Demons Movies" that Zou Yucai officially led a group of Chinese filmmakers to conquer Hollywood.

Today, China's top film companies are no worse than Hollywood in terms of global distribution and influence.

Even Zou Yu's "Yu Factory" film company successfully acquired DreamWorks, a famous American film company, last year.

And the "Prehistoric Theme Park" that Zou Yu is currently working hard to build is actually another realistic extension of the "Chinese Movie of Gods and Demons".

At present, the world's first "prehistoric theme park" has been completed in Yangcheng.

In another three months, Yangcheng's "Prehistoric Theme Park" will enter the trial operation stage.

By New Year's Day next year, the prehistoric theme park will be officially opened to tourists from all over the world.

And if you want to run a theme park with an investment cost of more than 200 billion, then the construction of the catering link will be a part that cannot be ignored.

Yao Yu had also heard about the completion of the "Prehistoric Theme Park" a long time ago.

But he didn't expect that Zou Yu would invite him to be the catering director of the theme park.

This kind of invitation is far more shocking than asking him to join Hua Restaurant.

After all, the production cost of the first phase of Hua Restaurant will not exceed 3000 million.

As for the Honghuang Theme Park, it was a big project that Zou Yu and many big guys had been planning for several years, involving an initial investment of more than 200 billion.

Faced with such a very important invitation, Yao Yu politely declined without hesitation.

He rejected Zou Yu for two reasons.

One, there is no time.

Yao Yu has his own plan, not to mention there are many system tasks to be completed.

Second, being the catering director at a theme park would not allow him to grow his cooking skills.

No matter how generous the salary Zou Yu gave him, he would not limit his activity time to the theme park.

Zou Yu was not too surprised when he heard Yao Yu's refusal.

He took a fancy to Yao Yu mainly because of his fame.

Since Yao Yu doesn't want to be the food and beverage director of the theme park, it's just a matter of looking for other chefs who are more famous than him.

There are more than 200 chefs in Qilin List, and as long as the money is in place, the right one can always be selected from them.

After the business was finished, the few people had a pleasant conversation during the rest of the meal time.

After drinking and eating, Zou Yu called the driver to take Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu back first.

After they left, Zheng Hailan made a pot of tea for Zou Yu and Gu Qingzhou, and said with a smile: "Although this Yao Yu claims to be your fan, it seems that he doesn't give you much face."

(End of this chapter)