Siheyuan: Taking over the steel mill

"waiter."

Su Chen raised his hand to call the waiter beside him. The waiter heard the noise and ran over in a hurry.

"Call your manager over."

Su Chen's expression was very gloomy. The waiter replied respectfully:

"Okay, wait a minute."

Yang Xue's face was not looking good either. She put her chopsticks on the plate, feeling very offended. "It doesn't matter. The food in this restaurant is not to my liking. Let's go to another place to continue enjoying it." Su Chen said softly.

Hearing this, Yang Xue's expression finally relaxed.

Yu Li was busy handling business near the cashier counter. When she heard the waiter's urgent report, she immediately put down her work and rushed over. When she asked what happened with a smile, she found that it was Su Chen who was sitting here. Facing Su Chen's questioning gaze, Yu Li could not directly tell him about the replacement of the chef, and chose to conceal the fact by default:

"How could this happen? Who would change the chef so easily?"

"You are being irresponsible to our restaurant by spreading rumors like this, Su Chen! We all live in the same neighborhood, so we'll see each other every day!"

Even if Yu Li did not agree with her behavior, Su Chen had already detected through his sense of taste that the person in charge of cooking today could not be the naive Zhuzi.

"You're full of lies. You don't have to pay the money!" "We'll withdraw first."

After realizing that the other party had no sincerity, Su Chen's expression became more solemn. He stood up and walked out of the restaurant. Such an unexpected dining experience made Su Chen refuse to pay for it, and Yu Li's response was the same as in the drama - she denied her behavior. Yang Xue also followed Su Chen and left together.

She was deeply impressed by Suchen's resolute action.

Yu Li stood there in shock, watching Su Chen and Yang Xue leave. This result was beyond her imagination, Su Chen's performance would be so extremely tough.

The anger of other diners was equally unrepressed.

Seeing Su Chen angrily flipping the plate and walking away, everyone followed suit and left the table angrily, "Hey, wait a minute..."

Although manager Yu Li hurriedly called out to the crowd to stop them,

But the indignation of the customers was irreversible. Some of the customers were so angry that their tables were even knocked over.

Their angry words and disdainful actions all showed their great disappointment with the store.

In a short while, the restaurant that was originally full of guests became deserted. The manager could only sigh to other employees:

"Managers, these deliveries in similar situations have caused a lot of complaints from customers recently!"

The waiter who received Su Chen looked embarrassed and said to Li: "It's really..."

Yu Li watched the customer leave and rushed into the kitchen in anger.

Su Chen walked in front, not only did he not get to eat, but he was also very angry. The Yan Jiecheng couple was really short-sighted. They fired Sha Zhu just to save a little money, so he could only eat a terrible Sichuan meal.

Yang Xue followed behind Su Chen and wanted to speak several times but didn't say anything in the end. She was the one who invited Su Chen to come today, and now Yang Xue felt extremely guilty.

If she hadn't chosen this place to eat, Su Chen wouldn't be in such a bad mood. Seeing Su Chen's figure getting farther and farther away, Yang Xue quickened her pace to catch up.

"I'm really sorry for choosing such a bad restaurant." Yang Xue said to Su Chen apologetically.

Su Chen slowed down his pace, his anger subsided a little, and he turned to look at Yang Xue:

"This matter has nothing to do with you. The waitress in this restaurant is called Yu Li. We are old acquaintances who grew up together and lived in the same compound. And her husband is Yan Jiecheng, the son of our old neighbor, Uncle San."

After a short break, Su Chen explained to Yang Xue how Yan Jiecheng and his wife were very careful with their budgets: "That couple is exactly like his father. His father is the old Yan in the compound - a man who is obsessed with money. He hired Sha Zhu as the chef. This guy is not very smart but the dishes he makes are quite good. But I think they fired Sha Zhu this time because they disliked the high salary they had to pay him. Otherwise, we wouldn't have to eat such unpalatable food tonight."

After listening to Su Chen's narration, Yang Xue finally understood what had happened. She couldn't help but shook her head: "Resigning the chief chef is simply a path to self-destruction for the restaurant. Who would do that?"

In Yang Xue's opinion, Yan Jiecheng's behavior of only caring about the present will only bring serious damage to himself. As the head of the Yang Group and having studied abroad, she can't understand or sympathize with the ideas of Yan Jiecheng and his wife.

If she were to make the decision herself, Yang Xue thought that even if the salary was higher, as long as the good chef was still there, she would do her best to keep him.

With such an excellent chef, the restaurant will surely be a booming business. Su Chen continued to walk forward, thinking that his stomach was still empty and he had to find another place to eat.

There are many restaurants opened in this area. He was looking for the next choice and found a restaurant in front of him that looked luxurious and magnificent. There were four words on it: "Shanfang Restaurant".

The words "御膳御院" are written on the top of the poster. In the middle is a black and white enlarged picture, and on both sides are six small color pictures. The focus of the picture looks like the actor Huang Bo.

At the very bottom, there is a line of words: Mr. Wang, the third-generation successor of the palace chef Master Wang Tingshan, will be in charge of the cooking. It also states that he will present long-lost delicacies from the palace.

It's really fate, Su Chen thought secretly.

The Shenfang Restaurant, which used to be the Fu Rui Building, is now doing very poor business and the waiter standing at the door looks listless.

A man in a chef's uniform stood by the door, looking as if he was trying to attract customers, but in fact he just smiled foolishly and said nothing.

Su Chen recognized that this person was somewhat similar to Huang Bo, and was the chef named Wang David. The long-lost memories gradually emerged in Su Chen's mind.

David Wang is the protagonist in the movie Egg Fried Rice. He is a chef who focuses on making egg fried rice.

In the movie, Wang David was schemed against by everyone around him, and even his father only taught him half of the method before he died.

If Wang David had not insisted on his original intention, he would have ended up dying alone and in obscurity under the bridge.

Thinking of these events, Su Chen thought to himself:

"It seems that now is the time for David Wang to take over the state-owned hotel, Fu Rui Lou."

Thinking that Wang David was now able to make extremely delicious dishes, Su Chen couldn't help but feel hungry, and the glutton in his stomach seemed to be aroused.

"You are lucky today. I will take you to enjoy the best food in this city~" Su Chen did not realize that Wang David was here.

With such an excellent chef, who would care about the man named "Sha Zhu"? Even if "Sha Zhu" was excellent, he was still far inferior to the descendant of a family of chefs.

"What kind of delicacy is that? I didn't know there was something delicious in the city that I didn't know about."

Yang Xue was puzzled, because those noble friends told her stories about various restaurants in the city every day. But she really didn't know if there was any restaurant that could surpass the Sichuan restaurant mentioned just now.

Unfortunately, Chunfeng Hotel changed its chef, otherwise she might have been able to try the authentic Sichuan cuisine that was rumored to be very good.

Su Chen led Yang Xue towards the Shanfang Restaurant with a mysterious look on his face.

Walking behind Su Chen, Yang Xue was puzzled to see that the waiters had no enthusiasm for work.

The restaurant seemed to be in a terrible state of business, with no customers. How could such a restaurant serve good food?

Although Yang Xue didn't want to enter the store, since Su Chen was leading the way, she had to suppress her curiosity and follow him.

Su Chen walked straight into the hotel without paying any attention to Wang David at the door, as if he didn't recognize him at all.

Even if he wanted to communicate with Wang David, he didn't want to disturb him at this moment. After all, he was a person with poor intelligence. Although he was kind-hearted, he often failed to handle complex matters satisfactorily.

Su Chen already had his own plans for Wang David's problem, so he just came to have dinner this time.

The Shanfang Restaurant had been open for two weeks, and during that time not a single customer had visited. Occasionally, a passerby would stop to look around and then leave in a hurry.

This store is luxuriously and high-endly decorated, and is obviously a place that ordinary people cannot afford to visit.

As the top catering company in the city, Furuilou was not only luxuriously decorated, but also had many guests. As a state-owned enterprise, it did not need to worry about profitability at that time.

However, due to the approaching system reform, the prospects of state-owned enterprises are becoming increasingly bleak, and the only fate they face now is closure.

Wang David therefore sold the antiques in his home and raised 20,000 yuan to take over Fu Rui Building.

Now he has renamed the Fu Rui Building into Shan Fang Hotel, although the interior decoration is not much different from the previous Fu Rui Building.

The state-owned restaurant in the past did not need to worry about revenue issues and attracted many customers with its low prices. But now that it has been renamed Shanfang Restaurant, the prices of its dishes have become exceptionally high.

Most people don't dare to step in here.

It’s not that David Wang intentionally priced the dishes too high. If he hadn’t done so, he wouldn’t even be able to recover the cost of the decoration.

When Su Chen walked into the Shanfang Restaurant, he became the first customer since the restaurant opened.

"Welcome, what would you like to order today? Our signature dish is the imperial cuisine, and there are all kinds of delicious food waiting for you to choose from."

Before the waiter had a chance to deal with the new customer, manager Li Hongbing came over enthusiastically to entertain him as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

Li Hongbing has been a friend of Wang David since childhood, but he is greedy and only wants to get rich. He looks down on Wang David and wants to use him. Even though Wang David lets Li Hongbing deeply participate in the operation of the restaurant and sometimes even lets him take charge, Li Hongbing can't remember this friendship at all and thinks that he is a fool.

Su Chen, who had traveled through time, understood this man's nature and had no intention of paying any attention to him.

In his opinion, Su Chen knew that Li Hongbing in the movie was such a despicable villain.

Although Li Hongbing looks quite heroic, he is a person of despicable character at heart.

Despite this, in his choices in life and love, Wang David has always been selfless in his devotion to Li Hongbing, and he even did not fight for the woman he loved most because of Li Hongbing. However, such a Wang David was still betrayed and harmed by Li Hongbing.

Su Chen despised this way of doing things.

Therefore, Su Chen ignored Li Hongbing's warm reception and walked directly into the store. He was just stunned for a moment.

With still no customers two weeks after opening, Li Hongbing has already started planning his next move.

He didn't want to starve to death in this store with Wang David, but as a store manager, he had to... But now seeing the new customer, Li Hongbing's eyes lit up a lot.

The customer in front of him was dressed well, but he ran away after seeing the prices. Li Hongbing recalled this scene and felt a headache.

If David Wang had not insisted on maintaining the store's decoration in the style of Furuilou, perhaps not everyone would be unwilling to come here for a meal.

Thinking that he had been drinking "Northwest Wind" here for more than a week, Li Hongbing was furious. It was because he had messed up Wang David's affairs that he ended up in this situation.

If it weren't for Wang David, Li Hongbing would probably be a millionaire now.

Unfortunately, the success of the restaurant still depends on the chef's skills, otherwise Li Hongbing might have wanted to squeeze out Wang David and find another famous chef to replace him.