The Gourmet Customizer

With these ten teachers around, He Shuting and Zhang Li breathed a huge sigh of relief.

After the afternoon nap, the teachers were actually standing there, guiding the children to fold their own quilts and blankets!

Zhang Li watched, stunned.

Just the day before, it had taken her and He Shuting over an hour to get all that work done!

"The boss is brilliant!"

"A boss is a boss for a reason. Everything he does really does have a purpose. I feel like we’re kind of dragging him down..."

Zhang Li turned her head. "Sister Shuting, I think you’re right. We are dragging the boss down."

The two of them sighed for a long while before finally deciding to go to the adult section for lunch to fill their stomachs, and then they would think about how to improve.

Normally, afternoons were the quietest time at Meiweilai Company.

There wasn’t much work on the 2nd floor, nor on the 19th floor. Everyone would just chat and shoot the breeze to pass the time.

But today, around five or six in the afternoon, an unexpected visitor arrived on the 2nd floor.

It was a parent, holding a small child by the hand.

"Hello, this is the Meiweilai Company’s After-school Diner, right?"

The group chatting at the dining table all turned their heads. He Shuting hurried over, TAP-TAP-TAP. "Yes, it is. And you are?"

After the last time someone came looking for trouble, He Shuting spoke very cautiously.

"Oh! I’m Wang Xin’s parent. It’s like this." The middle-aged man couldn’t help but glance at her long legs before quickly looking away. "My wife and I aren’t from around here. We’ve been doing business in Jingzhou for several years and never have time to pick up our kid. We’re especially grateful that the After-school Diner could solve this problem for us. This is just a small token of our appreciation."

The parent then placed a large bag of fruit he was carrying onto the table. "You absolutely mustn’t refuse! This is just a small gesture from us parents!"

After saying that, as if afraid of something, the parent grabbed his kid, turned, and left.

They could still hear a childish voice from the hallway, seeming to say something...

"I don’t want to go home to eat! I want to eat here with Teacher He!"

"WAHHH, I want to eat shrimp, I want shrimp! I want to eat the big chili peppers!"

Good grief.

The 2nd-floor employees all gathered around the table, staring at the bananas, oranges, and Fire Dragon Fruit in the plastic bag, falling silent.

Before anyone could decide whether they should eat the fruit,

another parent arrived, also with a child in tow.

"Teachers, thank you, thank you so much!"

"My kid never used to eat vegetables, but ever since he started eating at the After-school Diner for a couple of days, he comes home clamoring for them!"

"I’m a total believer in Boss Su’s abilities now. This is just a little something from us parents, so please don’t refuse it, teachers!"

On the table, a delicate box of peach pastries and a case of fruit-flavored milk now sat.

Over the next half hour, parents came one after another, and the pile of things on the table grew and grew.

By 7 PM, the stream of visitors finally stopped.

Liu Ahbao looked at the scene. "What do we do now? We could open a supermarket with all this."

Indeed, the pile of goods on the table was larger than the stock of some small convenience stores.

Ling Shuyu thought for a moment. "We should probably ask the boss. We can’t make a decision on this ourselves."

A short while later, Su Chen was called up to the 2nd floor. He, too, was taken aback when he saw the pile of stuff.

"These parents are overthinking things, aren’t they? Even if they don’t bring gifts, we’d still do a good job."

Aunt Fang smiled. "You’re all still young, you don’t understand. All parents are like this. When their children eat here, they want to build a better relationship with us. Firstly, they’re afraid their child might be mistreated, and secondly, they’re genuinely grateful."

Su Chen looked thoughtful. He nodded and said, "Pick out the fruit. We’ll add it to the children’s lunch tomorrow. As for the rest of the stuff, you all can eat whatever you want."

Since that was the case, there was no harm in accepting them.

Su Chen glanced inside. "Did the kindergarten teachers not come for dinner tonight?"

’His experiment had to continue. If his hypothesis was proven correct, then he would have to change the lunch menu for Wang Xiaoyi.’

"Not sure, they haven’t come over yet." Bai Xiaobo was holding his phone. "However, one of the teachers did contact me. She wants to order a custom dinner for tomorrow night to have with her boyfriend."

"What are the details?" Su Chen asked.

"It’s just a regular dinner, with a budget of over two hundred. I was planning to give it to Brother Ah Bao."

Su Chen nodded. That wasn’t a problem.

’A simple custom order like that could be handled directly by Ah Bao.’

Since there was nothing else, Su Chen prepared to leave. He had originally thought that making twenty Lu Cuisine dishes wouldn’t be difficult, but when he actually started cooking, he discovered it wasn’t that simple.

There was a reason Lu Cuisine had once swept the nation!

The culinary techniques it contained allowed Su Chen to reap great rewards in the Gourmet Practice Room, and he faintly felt his own cooking skills had reached a new level.

’Working overtime to master these dishes is the only way forward!’

As he reached the door, he ran into an old acquaintance.

"Director Li?"

Li Mingtao looked at Su Chen sheepishly. "Boss, I’ve been a bit busy these past few days, so I haven’t been by the company much."

"No worries." Su Chen knew that Li Mingtao’s absence from the company at the beginning of the month meant he had chosen to work at Xinghui Company.

There should be some things left unsaid between adults. Not choosing Delicious didn’t mean they had to be enemies from now on.