It’s not easy to be an interstellar chef

Chapter 268

The cafeteria staff all looked at their three guests with smiles.

These were their first guests and possibly their only guests of the day.

Just thinking about it makes me want to cry.

After finishing her meal, Grandma Wang would send her granddaughter and grandson to school, mainly her grandson as her granddaughter was already in high school, so she didn’t need to be sent.

When they were about to leave, Wang Zhixin packed two rice cakes for each of his granddaughter and grandson and asked them to take them to school.

"If you feel hungry at school, eat," Wang Zhixin urged earnestly, not forgetting to tell his purpose, "Please promote our cafeteria to your classmates, and invite them to eat when you are free."

Both children complied obediently.

Grandma Wang couldn't stand the way he was taking advantage of the child, so she took the child and left.

Then time passed by again.

In the blink of an eye, it was already past eight o'clock.

Eight o'clock is the class time for nearby schools, which means that after this time, basically no children go out to school.

Their source of customers was cut off.

This morning's only income came from Grandma Wang and her family of three.

But is it really broken? Not necessarily.

Qiao Zhiyan used a knife to cut the hot rice cakes just out of the oven into small pieces, and divided the soy milk into small cups. He did the same with other breakfasts. Then he asked Wang Zhixin to stand in front of the table outside and invite those who had just finished their morning exercises to come and try the food for free.

That's right, it's free.

Free is the most effective marketing tool. No matter how much you brag, nothing is more tempting than the word "free".

After all, taking advantage is a human vice.

Others don’t understand: “Why not offer this free trial before the kids go to school?”

"Because school time is tight." Qiao Zhiyan said calmly

He is a student himself, how could he not know? Who wants to get up early to go to school every day? Grandma Wang and her friends had time to sit down and eat breakfast slowly because they went to school earlier. Other children passed by their door in a hurry at 7:50, so they had no time to pay attention to their free tasting, let alone whether they should go to school or not.

More importantly, the children all took nutritional supplements before going to school.

"But we still have to organize food tastings for students," Qiao Zhiyan changed the subject, "and we can arrange it at noon or in the evening."

There is a two-hour break at noon. Primary school students do not have evening self-study in the evening. Although middle school students have evening self-study, there are also two or three hours before the study to allow students to have extracurricular activities.

At this point in time, we must be marketing to students.

"Then we are now..."

Qiao Zhiyan looked at those morning exercisers who were wiping their sweat as they walked home and said, "Don't eat a full stomach before exercising."

Even in the interstellar space, exercising on an empty stomach is common knowledge that everyone knows.

In other words, people who do morning exercises nowadays are on an empty stomach and have just finished exercising, so a slight stimulation of the stomach and intestines can whet their appetite.

After listening to Qiao Zhiyan's explanation, Wang Zhixin immediately cheered up and began to greet people he knew.

Although he used to be a long-distance driver and didn't spend much time at home, he still had neighbors that he knew. More importantly, this was a military community and many of his neighbors were discharged from the army at the same time as him, so they were all more or less familiar to him.

Plus, the temptation of free stuff was so great that some people actually gathered around.

The first person to come and join in the fun was called Lao Zhang by Wang Zhixin.

Lao Zhang was really curious about what Lao Wang and this store were doing, so he came over to find out. After all, he was an acquaintance of Lao Wang.

Wang Zhixin generously let him try every breakfast item on offer.

Lao Zhang is also a person who likes to take advantage. It might be a bit of an exaggeration to say that he was astounded after eating the meal, but it was definitely beyond his expectations.

"Why, it's so delicious." After eating a small piece of rice cake, Lao Zhang was so excited that he wanted to reach out to grab a sample, but was slapped by Wang Zhixin.

Wang Zhixin took out new rice cakes: "If you want more, buy more. Don't you also have a subsidy from the military?"

Speaking of this subsidy, Lao Zhang was a little resentful: "What's the use of this subsidy? It's not real money, and it can't even reimburse the cost of the treatment cabin."

Lao Zhang thinks this subsidy is useless.

Wang Zhixin looked at him and pulled him to start calculating: "That's not the case. The nutritional supplements you take every day are about 100 star coins. If you eat all three meals in the cafeteria, you will spend about 150 star coins every day. But if you calculate it, you save the money you spend on nutritional supplements. You save 3,000 a month."

Lao Zhang didn't react for a moment: "Look at what you said, how can you eat these things without taking nutritional supplements?"

"How can it be impossible?" Wang Zhixin puffed out his chest and said proudly, "That's how I am."

Old Zhang's first reaction was that Wang Zhixin was bragging, but seeing how confident he was in his words, it didn't seem like that.

Seeing Lao Zhang's skeptical look, Wang Zhixin rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't believe me, how about we make a bet?"

They, as well as the old men and women who have stopped to watch, are all of retirement age and have nothing to do at home. When they hear that something exciting is about to happen, they start to join in the fun.

Old Zhang had nothing to do, and he was also sure that Wang Zhixin was cheating him, so he asked, "How do we bet?"

Wang Zhixin said confidently: "Come to our place for three meals today. If you still want to take nutritional supplements, I will give you one thousand star coins. If you lose, you will have to eat in the cafeteria for the next ten days without missing a single meal."

Lao Zhang did not answer immediately. He thought about it and realized that he would not lose anything. Even if he lost, he would have to eat in the cafeteria for ten consecutive days, but there was a subsidy, and he did not have to take nutritional supplements, so he really saved money.

Of course, he was not stupid. He knew that Lao Wang wanted to use him as a living advertisement in the community. But if it was really like Lao Wang said, that three meals a day could replace nutritional supplements, then he would just be a living advertisement. What he just ate was always better than nutritional supplements, at least it tasted richer than nutritional supplements.

After making a bet, Lao Zhang immediately started choosing breakfast without hesitation.

Wang Zhixin wanted him to buy all the breakfasts and kept promoting them: "This vegetable porridge is delicious. You can also take an egg to supplement your protein. And this soy milk is sweet. We added a lot of sugar."

Lao Zhang's scalp tingled: "That's enough, I can't finish it."

Wang Zhixin disagreed: "If you can't finish it, share some with your sister-in-law. How is your health? I tell you that eating more of these is good for your health."

Thinking of his wife, Lao Zhang had no complaints about buying so many things, since he was spending the money from the military subsidy after all.

Then Lao Zhang left with the large and small bags of breakfast he had bought.

As soon as Lao Zhang left, others came up curiously to inquire, mainly to ask whether the military subsidies and three meals a day could really replace nutritional supplements.

Having asked, I always wanted to try it. After tasting it, I felt embarrassed not to buy it, and soon the breakfast prepared this morning was sold out.

It was not yet nine o'clock.

Qiao Zhiyan left Wang Zhixin as the person on duty and let the others go back to the dormitory to rest, and then come back to prepare lunch at ten o'clock.

After that, the daily duty will be rotated.

Qiao Zhiyan did not go back to rest.

The sooner he could get this place back on track, the sooner he could leave, so he decided not to go back and volunteered to work overtime.

This was the most idle time, so he took the time to call home.

Mother Qiao complained that he hadn't been home for many days, so he could only try his best to comfort her: "I'm busy here, I'll go home and spend a few days with you when I'm done."

Qiao's mother asked, "Did Chaoqi ask you to help with something again?"

Qiao Zhiyan was startled: "No, this is a cooperation with the military and has nothing to do with the dynasty."

Although there would be no such cooperation without Su Chaoqi, no matter how stupid Qiao Zhiyan was, he knew that he couldn't say this, and he was not stupid anyway.

Sure enough, when Qiao's mother heard that it was a military matter, she stopped asking any more questions. The military is far away and untouchable to ordinary people, so they subconsciously avoided it.

Qiao Zhiyan continued to comfort him: "When I'm done with my work here, Chao Liu should also have finished his internship during the holidays. Then we can go home together."

Mother Qiao's tone softened: "That's fine, then the family will be reunited."

Qiao Zhiyan hung up the phone and let out a long sigh.

Before, he was too lazy to go home and kept saying that he hadn't finished the tasks entrusted to him by the court. Although he did have to keep an eye on the planted lettuces, lettuce was a plant with strong vitality and would not cause any big problems if it was not checked for a few days. Besides, it was feasible for him to ask Uncle Guo to help keep an eye on it for a few days.

Who knew that it would make his mother so upset.

It's his fault, what a sin.

After I finished talking to my family, a while later, today's fresh vegetables and fruits were delivered by logistics.

Qiao Zhiyan and Wang Zhixin took inventory together to separate those used in the cafeteria today from those sold directly.

Qiao Zhiyan arranged: "Put fewer vegetables on the shelves and more fruits."

Vegetables need to be processed and cooked. As for fruits, some can be eaten after washing, and at most they need to be peeled, but StarCraft has automatic peeling machines.

This kind of peeling machine, as long as you put the fruit into the conveying port, it will be "swallowed" by the peeling machine, and when it comes out, the fruit will be peeled cleanly.

If you want to cut it into pieces, that's also possible, just press one more key.

Technology develops to make people's lives more convenient.

So convenient fruits are definitely easier to sell on the first day than vegetables.

As for vegetables, he estimated that no one except the employees would buy them today.

As for meat, that was even more impossible, so he didn't place any meat order today.

At ten o'clock, after resting for dozens of minutes, the other two people came over to help in high spirits.

"Prepare less rice and dishes," Qiao Zhiyan kept arranging, "Prepare more fruit slices. We will promote fruit slices during the tasting today. Cut the fruit slices for the tasting into thumb-sized pieces. Also, put out the link for the peeler to improve the service quality. Today's meal is the most critical. Only if it is done well can we attract future customers."

After hearing Qiao Zhiyan's orderly instructions, for some reason, I suddenly felt a lot more confident in myself and started working very actively.

But who knew that Qiao Zhiyan was also extremely nervous.