Dare to cook

Chapter 231 Signing a contract with Hua Restaurant

After Yao Yu sent Li's father and daughter home, he drove back to the short-term rental villa.

At this time, the arrangements for the birthday party in the villa have been removed.

The two silly cartoon tumblers placed at the entrance of the villa were also deflated and taken away by Ding Binghui.

When Yao Yu returned to the villa, Lu Chenyu and others had already left.

He rinsed it, went back to his room and lay down on the bed, and turned on the system panel again.

In the panel, [Famous Chef Returns] has been completed, and the rewards calculated by the system can be claimed at any time.

[Famous Chef Returns] was the first task Yao Yu received after using the system.

To Yao Yu, this task also has special meaning.

After defeating Shen Gongpei yesterday, the system calculated the task rewards.

Since Yao Yu has completed all the task requirements of [The Return of the Famous Chef] 100%, the rewards calculated by the system are also very rich.

Not only did he give him five more [Gourmet Traceability Cards], but he also rewarded Yao Yu with a secret balsamic vinegar recipe and a new skill - doubling the cooking speed.

Double cooking speed, as the name suggests, is a skill that can double the cooking speed.

Each use of this skill has a 24-hour cooldown.

And as long as [Double Cooking Speed] is used, the ingredients that originally need to be cooked, steamed, and marinated for a long time can be processed in half the time in advance.

With this skill, Yao Yu will undoubtedly be more invincible in future games.

As for the secret balsamic vinegar, Yao Yu hasn't tried that vinegar recipe yet.

But I also know that it should be on the same level as secret steamed fish juice and secret red oil.

Yao Yu gained a lot from this trip to Qindao.

After going through many competitions in the celebrity selection competition, Yao Yu's culinary skills growth in just half a month is worth two or three years of hard training for an ordinary chef.

And this also made Yao Yu, who possessed the magical skill of stealing teachers, understand a truth.

As a hooker, wretched development is not feasible.

Only by constantly competing with others and often participating in heavyweight competitions where famous chefs gather, can he learn more cooking skills faster.

In this way, he can complete the extremely difficult and difficult tasks such as [Eat the World] and [Read Thousands of Mountains] in the task system panel.

So, early the next morning.

When Guan Shanyuan's assistant Yuan Peng contacted Yao Yu and asked if he was willing to join the National Youth Chef Team, Yao Yu immediately agreed.

After it was confirmed that Yao Yu would join the national team, Yuan Peng informed Yao Yu that the Kitchen Association would hold a press conference for the 5th National Youth Chef Team on May 25.

At that time, all selected team members will be invited to attend and cooperate with the Kitchen Association to conduct some necessary media publicity.

After talking to Yuan Peng on the phone, Yao Yu had breakfast and then drove to pick up Lu Chenyu, and then the two of them went to meet Zheng Hailan, the planner of Hua Restaurant.

Before the finals of the contest started, Zou Yu and Zheng Hailan sent formal invitations to Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu, hoping that they could participate in the recording of the seventh season of Chinese Restaurant.

Lu Chenyu agreed after a few days of consideration.

And now, Yao Yu is going to take Lu Chenyu to discuss a specific contract with Zheng Hailan.

Zheng Hailan met the two of them at a five-star hotel in Huangdao District.

When Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu arrived at the hotel, Zheng Hailan's assistant invited them to a presidential suite in the hotel.

Here, Zheng Hailan has prepared a contract document and a recording plan for Hua Restaurant.

Today Zheng Hailan is wearing a very delicate and business-like attire.

Seeing Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu come in, Zheng Hailan, who had just finished talking to them on the phone, smiled and said, "You guys are here, sit down, what would you like to drink?"

"Just plain water." Yao Yu said with a smile.

Lu Chenyu also smiled and said, "Same as him."

On the side, your own assistant will bring tea and water.

Zheng Hailan looked at this pair of very well-matched and outstanding young men and women, feeling secretly in his heart, and said to the two of them: "You can take a look at the specific contract first, and if there is something you are not satisfied with, we can discuss and change it."

Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu sat down in the sofa area, and took a quick look at the contract handed over by Zheng Hailan.

The contract was very thick, with about a dozen pages. Yao Yu quickly scanned it several times and said to Zheng Hailan: "I have no objection to most of the terms of the contract, but there are too many advertising endorsements."

As soon as Yao Yu said this, Lu Chenyu also said:
"I think so. There are three main sponsors of Seventh Season Hua Restaurant, namely beverage sponsors, kitchenware sponsors and translation machine sponsors."

"If according to Article [-] of the fourth page of the contract, every time we record a reality show, each person will have to advertise for three brand sponsors a total of six times. This is too many times."

It is almost the basic method of the entire entertainment industry to attract sponsorships for reality shows and then help sponsors advertise.

The most disgusting thing among them is the title advertisement that was played two or three times in a certain challenge program, and played four or five times in a loop - "Every night, every night, XX people are together every night..."

That kind of sand sculpture cycle is simply a magic sound!

It makes people want to smash the TV.

Although, Zheng Hailan did not stipulate in the contract that Yao Yu should read such stupid advertisements.

But regardless of soft advertising or hard advertising, reading too much will always annoy people.It will also leave the audience with the impression that they are desperate for money.

Zheng Hailan saw that the two raised objections to this, so she said: "Then according to your ideas, how many commercials do you want to endorse in one program?"

Yao Yu said:
"Can we not do oral broadcasts?"

"Whether it's a formal spoken-word broadcast recorded in front of the camera, or an advertising placement where the sponsor's name is deliberately mentioned in the chat like a skit, I don't want to do it."

Zheng Hailan immediately shook his head and said:

"I'm afraid it won't work. Although the seventh season of Hua Restaurant has a total of six partners, if only the star partners do the advertising placement, and you don't do it at all, it will be too deliberate and obvious."

"How about this. You don't have to do the oral broadcasting, but you have to ensure that the name of the sponsor is mentioned at least twice in each issue."

"Every time we record a program, we will edit a 90-minute official version and a 30-minute extra version."

"In the process of editing, sometimes your ad placement content will be cut out according to the needs of the content."

"Finally, the frequency of endorsements will not be as many as you imagined."

Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu listened to this, thought for a moment, and nodded in agreement.

Subsequently, the two parties discussed and adjusted other contract details for an hour, and finally reached an agreement.

After officially signing the contract, Zheng Hailan also showed a relaxed smile on his face.

She reached out her hand and said:

"I'm very happy that the two of you can officially become the partners of Hua Restaurant."

"We will start recording this season on July 7, and the recording location will be in Sicily, Italy."

"Before we set off, that is, around June 6, we will record a partner meeting in China. So I hope that the two of you can handle the domestic affairs properly before then."

After finishing speaking, Zheng Hailan took a special look at Yao Yu.

Yao Yu smiled slightly, knowing that Zheng Hailan said this to him on purpose.

After signing the contract, Yao and Yu left the hotel.

Coming out of the hotel, Lu Chenyu looked at the time and said to Yao Yu: "There is still an hour before I board the plane back to Shencheng. When do you plan to go back?"

"Tomorrow morning." Yao Yu replied, "I have to return the car and villa I rented in Qindao first."

(End of this chapter)