The Gourmet Customizer

When it came time to process the refund for little Zhang Dali, both sides got into another heated dispute.

The employees at Delicious were already thoroughly fed up with Zhang Dali’s parents and sister. Even though the boy himself was blameless, keeping him on meant dealing with such parents, and all sorts of other strange incidents were bound to happen in the future.

Besides, this served to make an example of them.

It was also a way of telling the other parents that if an issue arose, they should first get a clear understanding of the situation before trying to solve the problem.

If anyone wanted to cause trouble... well, sorry, but we can do without your business.

Faced with the firm stance from Delicious, Dali’s parents had no choice but to accept a refund for the month’s meal fees.

They then handed over the daily task of picking up and dropping off their child to his sister, Zhang Qing.

"I can’t believe something like this happened on the very first day. Thank goodness Boss Su was here to take charge! Otherwise, I really don’t know what I would’ve done," Zhang Li said, sitting on a stool and swinging her short legs.

He Shuting had been staring at her legs for a while, finding it a little strange.

They were all about the same height, so why could her own feet touch the ground when she sat down, while Zhang Li’s couldn’t? ’Her short legs just dangling and swinging like that... it’s so cute!’

"Yeah, Boss Su protected us again today. When he stood up to Zhang Qing, I was so moved I almost cried!" As the first person they had confronted, He Shuting had been truly panicked at the time.

Her first thought had been, ’Should I just apologize quickly to calm the parents down? I can’t let this blow up!’

"Looks like starting tomorrow, we’ll have to implement proper portion control. We can’t just let the kids eat as much as they want. We’ll just have to serve them according to standard meal sizes," Ling Shuyu said. Before she had returned, she had gotten a children’s dietary guidelines chart from a doctor.

It had scientific recommendations for how much food a child of a given age should eat at each meal.

She gave the chart to Zhang Li and He Shuting. From now on, they would serve meals according to those portions.

Still hungry?

Too bad, no more food!

After the chart was posted in the group chat, all the parents voiced their approval.

They also found the whole incident with Zhang Dali rather ridiculous.

Meanwhile, Su Chen took a deep breath after hearing Bai Xiaobo’s report.

"So you’re saying the main event here isn’t even about Fang Chang and his fiancée? It’s really about Jiang Yuan’s father and uncle, Jiang Wensheng and Jiang Wusheng?"

"That seems to be the case. From what I gathered from Fang Chang, if Jiang Wensheng didn’t want a chance to see you cook in person, this whole engagement might not have gone so smoothly!"

To secure the engagement banquet, Brother Fang Chang had laid all his cards on the table.

Su Chen smiled. "What’s one more? What’s two more? Let them all come!"

With everyone there, if Cui Yufen tried to pull any stunts, she’d have to think twice. After all, the culinary world was only so big. Even if they specialized in different cuisines and had never met, they all more or less knew of one another.

If word got out that she did something too outrageous, it would reflect badly on her own reputation.

Still, things were getting more and more interesting.

On August 15th, a National Banquet Master of Lu Cuisine would be there with her apprentices, a National Banquet Master of Huaiyang Cuisine would be attending his daughter’s engagement, and a National Banquet Master of Hubei Cuisine would also be there to join the fun.

If word of this got out, wouldn’t reporters be flocking to the scene as well?

Talk about pressure, right?

Su Chen had already drawn up a new schedule for himself.

Aside from ensuring a good night’s sleep, his daytime routine would be to enter the Gourmet Practice Room for an eight-hour training session every three hours.

A schedule of sixteen hours of training with a two-hour break was also possible.

But that kind of schedule was too extreme. Doing it once in a while was fine, but a full day of it would easily give him a disorienting sense of temporal dislocation.

To have clearly worked for over ten hours, only to return to reality and find that not even a second had passed—it was a deeply uncomfortable feeling.

Even with his "3+8" learning model, he could rack up over thirty hours of practice time in a single day.

’One of my days is worth three or four of anyone else’s!’

’Now *this* is what you call heaven rewarding the diligent, damn it!’

Besides, with his famous recipes, the system’s synthesis function, and all his various Max Level Skills, there was no reason he should lose face in front of these National Banquet Masters.

"So, should I get back to Brother Fang Chang?"

Su Chen nodded. "Go ahead, but make it clear to him beforehand. If it’s for an engagement banquet, he needs to consider our venue situation. We also have that birthday banquet to host, and the company definitely can’t provide a proper banquet hall. It’s up to him to decide."

It was a practical issue.

"Okay, got it." After confirming the details with his boss, Bai Xiaobo left the 19th floor to get back to work.

There were offices on the 2nd floor now, and things were getting busy.

Unless there was a specific reason not to, most employees chose to work on the 2nd floor.

When he got back to the 2nd floor, he saw everyone gathered around, chatting.

Bai Xiaobo skirted around the group and went back to his office to get on with his work.

He had a lot on his plate at the moment as well.

Ever since his uncle’s restaurant visit, all sorts of people from around the city had been contacting him for custom orders from Delicious.

Unfortunately...

His boss was currently handling orders worth tens of thousands of yuan. It wasn’t that they looked down on fifty or hundred-yuan orders, but they were genuinely too busy to take them on.

So Bai Xiaobo could only pick out a few qualifying customers from the list and invite them to eat in the second-floor cafeteria. Now, however, he could just coordinate that work directly with Liu Ahbao.