The Gourmet Customizer

He’d been exhausted lately. He fell into a deep sleep just minutes after his head hit the pillow.

The night passed in silence.

「The next day, 7:40 AM.」

Building 8, Sector A, Development Zone.

"Delicious Small Eatery? What’s going on? Did Boss Su open a new business?"

"Dunno. The sign on the door says breakfast is on the second floor. Come on, let’s go check it out!"

"Damn! Boss Su is finally back from his trip? Where’s my celebrity crush? Don’t tell me she’s become the boss’s wife?"

"Let’s go, let’s go, hurry! I’ve been starving and losing weight these past few days while Boss Su was gone!"

As had become their habit over the last few days, the Xinghui employees would first check every morning to see if Delicious was open. Then, upon seeing only Aunt Fang cleaning on the 19th floor, they would leave in disappointment.

They had been doing this for seven days straight.

Sun the Second, from the cafeteria, was still wondering why all the employees had suddenly started eating there these past few days.

On the eighth day, several employees who arrived early discovered a notice at the first-floor elevator entrance of Building 8!

All those having breakfast, please proceed to the Delicious Small Eatery on the 2nd floor to dine!

Filled with curiosity, some of the Xinghui staff took the elevator, while others simply took the stairs.

Wang Rui was among them. "This is great. Now that Boss Su is back, even the sunlight feels brighter today."

"What kind of analogy is that... What are we eating today?" asked Liu Xia from the warehouse.

"Let me think." Wang Rui adjusted his glasses. "I’m definitely getting eggs. I ate one of Director Zhou’s the other day and he was furious. I’m eating at least five eggs today!"

"And if there are steamed buns, I’ll have two. Hmm, that should be enough. Yeah, that’s it. I can’t eat any more than that."

Liu Xia’s mouth was watering just listening to him. "I always thought the big meat buns were delicious, but after not having them for a week, I’m really craving them. I hope Boss Su made some!"

In the blink of an eye, the two of them reached the second floor. They looked up and saw a small sign hanging in the same spot as the one on the 19th floor.

[Delicious Small Eatery]

"Boss Su really has a knack for business. The kindergarten moves out, so he opens a small eatery. This business will definitely be great!" Wang Rui said with great approval.

He had no idea that a traitor had already emerged from among Xinghui’s middle management!

"So this is a place that cooks for kids? Heh heh, it’s perfectly fine for us to come for breakfast."

The two continued walking inside until they entered the dining hall, where they stopped in their tracks.

"Holy cow, this place can fit two or three hundred people at once, right?"

As far as the eye could see, there were neat rows of four-person tables, a bit like a university cafeteria. At the far end of the dining hall was an open service window, where Liu Ahbao was standing.

"Chef, where’s Boss Su?" Wang Rui asked.

"Boss Su made breakfast and went back to rest. I’m the one selling it."

Liu Ahbao had come to the company early this morning, only to find that Su Chen had been even earlier!

In the second-floor kitchen, Su Chen had taught Ah Bao the entire method and all the techniques for making the big meat buns. He truly lived up to his title as a master chef!

After just following Su Chen through the process once, he had already mastered the technique of stir-frying the pork knuckle meat in the wok.

While Liu Ahbao was exclaiming at his miraculous skill, Su Chen cracked several hundred more eggs and made three large vats of Coca-Cola Tea Eggs.

In order to free himself from these chores sooner rather than later, Su Chen specifically equipped Liu Ahbao with a kitchen thermometer and standardized the temperature control process for boiling the eggs.

For example, he told Ah Bao what the temperature should be at specific minute markers.

This way, although the operation was a bit foolproof, at least he wouldn’t mess it up. Of course, when it came to cracking the eggs, Liu Ahbao tried several times but still couldn’t do it like Su Chen.

So for the time being, Su Chen had to continue handling that part.

The steamer baskets for the buns had also been switched to much larger ones that could steam 80 buns at a time!

This morning, Su Chen and Liu Ahbao had worked together to make five steamer loads, a total of 400 buns!

Plus nearly 500 eggs!

At that moment, seeing the steaming hot buns in the giant steamer baskets and the eggs giving off a faint aroma of Coca-Cola and tea, Wang Rui’s mouth formed an "O."

’When have I ever had such a lavish breakfast?’

Before, you either had to come early or scramble to buy them, and if you were unlucky, there wouldn’t be enough to eat!

’And now, here on the second floor, they’ve made so many all at once?’

"They didn’t make so many that the flavor suffered, did they?"

Liu Ahbao smiled good-naturedly. "You’ll know once you try."

"Alright then." Wang Rui started with one bun and one egg. Not even worried about choking, he found a seat and started to eat.

He took a bite of the big meat bun, and the familiar taste was finally back!

Then he took a bite of the tea egg!

The faint, sweet fragrance instantly swept away the foul mood brought on by eating at Sun the Second’s place for the past few days!

"It’s still the same flavor! BOO HOO HOO... Do you have any idea what I’ve been through this past week?! Ten! Give me ten more of each!"

Ah Bao looked at Wang Rui in astonishment. "Can you really eat ten big meat buns?"

"If I can’t finish them, I’ll eat them for lunch! No, wait..." A wave of reason washed over Wang Rui. "I have to come back for the stir-fried chicken at noon. In that case, give me three more buns and five eggs!"

As he scanned the QR code to pay, Wang Rui comforted himself.

’I haven’t eaten this in a week, so splurging a little is no big deal. As a working man, you have to eat well before you can even think about working.’

’Don’t I bust my ass at work just to eat well?!’

Not to be outdone, Liu Xia declared, "I’ll have three buns and three eggs!"

As Liu Ahbao packed the food for these employees, he wondered to himself.

’Are these people bottomless pits? Why can they eat so much? How can a young woman eat this much in the morning?’

「Meanwhile.」

The Xinghui Cafeteria.

Sun the Second looked with satisfaction at the breakfast his own chefs had prepared.

"Don’t they love steamed buns and tea eggs? We’ll give them this today! Pork crackling buns, no less. This stuff is hard to come by these days!"

Sun the Second had no idea that Delicious was open for business today! The employees of his company were currently feasting at Delicious!

Li Mingtao got two eggs, shook his head, and walked out of the cafeteria.

’People used to like pork cracklings, but wasn’t that because they were too poor to afford meat?’

’Now that everyone’s lives are better, who would want to eat buns filled with the dregs left over after you’ve rendered the fat?’

’And then there are the tea eggs...’

Li Mingtao had personally seen Sun the Second boil them the day before, let them soak in the pot overnight, and only reheated them this morning.

While it was true that many tea eggs were made this way, compared to the delicious, freshly made ones from Boss Su, these were inferior by a long shot.

’Just consider this: between overnight eggs and freshly boiled eggs, which would a normal person choose?’

Walking out of the cafeteria, Li Mingtao seemed to have an answer in his heart about which company he would stay with next.