Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 893 - 442: Someone Else’s Child
After identifying his recent direction and goals, Qin Huai officially began grinding skill levels.
Grinding skill levels is actually quite simple, you just need to focus on one word—
Effort.
There's no need to consider if the snacks are cost-effective, difficult to make, have a market, or are worth mass production. These are considerations for grinding specific skills or when wanting to earn money, but Qin Huai is up for any skill grinding because none of his skills are maxed out. With everything grindable, he can make all kinds of snacks.
As long as Qin Huai likes it, he can make whatever he wants, even stir-frying two plates of greens by the stove. Fire Control is also a skill level.
Master Zhou highly appreciates and supports Qin Huai's attitude and approach to skill grinding.
Every Master has come from an apprenticeship, and every Master has experienced the state of hard practice and confusion. It's because they've gone through this that they understand the pain of hard practice.
When people really go all out, what they work on becomes unimportant. Cost-effectiveness and instructions don't matter; perseverance, having interest and motivation to continue, do.
In times like these, every Master turns into a doting parent, adopting the mindset of letting the kids do whatever they're happy doing.
Of course, Master Zhou's mindset only applies to Qin Huai, not Zhao Cheng'an.
Qin Huai is actively putting in effort, while Zhao Cheng'an is purely passive, even getting a bit existential because of Qin Huai's effort. His gaze towards Qin Huai changed to: "Buddy, can you really work this hard?"
I know you're capable of effort; Tan Wei'an hinted at it, but he never mentioned you'd work this hard.
Are you Guli?
Actually, no, you're even more absurd than Guli. Guli would only come to make snacks at around 7 in the morning, and though he'd finish work late, his working hours were just a bit long but starting at 7 AM still makes him human.
You start at 7 AM, but then you shifted to 6 AM, and now 5 AM—is this human?
Do you know that because of you, the window service people have specifically set up an early shift, opening at 6 AM every day? Our Zhiwei Restaurant's tradition of starting to sell snacks at 9:30 AM was directly broken by you, turning us from a Bai'an Restaurant into a Breakfast Shop.
Do you know the last time Zhiwei Restaurant sold breakfast was more than 30 years ago before the transformation and reform?
Brother, stop working so hard, starting at 7 AM is already torturous; starting at 5 AM, I really can't keep up. Didn't you notice my Master is pretending to be dead? My Master can only manage to come at around 6 AM.
Qin Huai wasn't aware of Zhao Cheng'an's lament, he was just happily making snacks every day.
As someone who dislikes waking up early, when Qin Huai used to sell breakfast at Qin Family Breakfast Shop, he simply didn't like having to wake up at 1 or 2 AM to make breakfast, but waking up at around 4 or 5 AM was still acceptable.
The early rise of a breakfast chef differs from that of a snack chef.
Even though Qin Huai has become a snack master, when he truly starts putting in effort, grinding basic skills, he realizes deep down he is still a breakfast chef.
He's becoming the king of effort, ready to mass-produce basic snacks, vigorously grind various skills, with plain buns, fermented rice with steamed buns, meat buns, vegetable buns, small steamed buns, rice cake, sponge cake, jujube cake, handmade noodles, simple noodles, steamed dumplings, wontons supplied infinitely to let breakfast take over Zhiwei Restaurant, causing even fried dough sticks and pea cake mixed in to make customers exclaim: whoa, high-end stuff snuck into breakfast, aren't these snacks? Qin Huai is undoubtedly putting effort into his comfort zone.
What is his comfort zone?
Making breakfast!
Master Qin ventured out for over a year and returned, still a breakfast shop chef, which in a way, is staying true to his roots.
As for Zhiwei Restaurant's old customers, especially those living nearby and can pass by to buy breakfast every morning…
They're practically so happy they could laugh themselves awake from dreaming every night.
On the first day Qin Huai made fermented rice with steamed buns and plain buns, everyone merely admired that Zhiwei Restaurant had a master who loved making these basic snacks. At that time, customers hadn't realized what was about to happen; they still defined the buns Qin Huai made as snacks.
Some old customers who understood Zhiwei Restaurant's mechanism even thought it might be the new Master demonstrating to apprentices on their first day, just made many simple, quick-to-sell buns for demonstration.
Zhiwei Restaurant's masters' snacks have always been released randomly; they don't have fixed KPIs, mostly focusing on teaching. Usually, they take life easy, goofing around, only showcasing their skills at large events like business receptions or official activities.
As Bai'an Restaurant, Zhiwei Restaurant aligns with many high-end restaurants; quite a few masters' signature snacks require advance reservation and are very pricey, plus only snacks from ordinary masters can be reserved in advance. Whereas for someone like Master Zhou, Bai'an's number one, you need connections to even attempt a reservation because Master Zhou normally doesn't feel like making them.
Rather than proper work, Master Zhou prefers daily random releases.
This selling mode encourages Zhiwei Restaurant's customers to adopt a blind box mentality—as long as they have money, they want to buy on the chance they hit the jackpot?
