Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 915 - 451: Warming Boss Ling All Day_2

Qin Huai kept reading the tutorial until 1:50, during which Zhao Cheng'an called Qin Huai, asking if he wanted to visit Prince Gong Mansion. Everyone thought the afternoon exchange meeting was unnecessary to participate in, and many planned to skip it and head directly to the tourist spots to start their play mode.

Qin Huai said he had things to do in the afternoon, politely declined, washed his face to make himself look a little refreshed, and headed to Babaozhai.

Although Qin Huai didn't want to change jobs, he still had to tidy up for the time-limited task.

At 2 p.m., there were already chefs busy in the kitchen of Babaozhai.

For an old establishment like Babaozhai, with a tendency to be a bit of a trendy spot, it usually doesn't lack customers. The head chefs are the main force, and when the kitchen gets busy, it's like a war; the head chef absolutely won't be as leisurely as the master chefs at Zhiwei Restaurant, coming and going as they please.

Even during an exchange meeting, Babaozhai operates as usual, with the exchange meeting only occupying the banquet hall, unable to accommodate walk-in customers when there isn't a wedding banquet.

While eating lunch and grabbing some food, Qin Huai heard the chefs chatting nearby and mentioned that since Babaozhai started its marketing, it has taken on many wedding banquets, birthday banquets, graduation banquets, internally renovated, reduced the number of private rooms, and freed up two banquet halls.

If Huang Ji barely accepts banquets, then Babaozhai takes all it can. Although the banquets at Babaozhai are expensive, they are advantaged by having no threshold, unlike other old establishments where making a reservation is next to impossible, requiring recommendations, or an advanced membership card; here at Babaozhai, as long as there's schedule availability and the money is in place, everything is okay.

And it assures Tong Dayan as the head chef, never passing off ordinary chefs as excellent ones.

In this view, it does seem Babaozhai has lowered the difficulty of booking banquets, but it's at the expense of its sole head chef Tong Dayan.

No wonder Ling Guangzhao is so eager to recruit people; if Master Tong keeps working like this, he'll end up working himself to exhaustion.

Qin Huai inexplicably began to understand Ling Guangzhao.

When Qin Huai arrived in the kitchen, Tong Dayan had already prepared a culinary station for him, basic tools for steaming snacks, something like a steamer basket, steam oven, and explained their locations and uses, informing Qin Huai that Babaozhai no longer sells snacks, just these conditions, no higher-end machines.

Qin Huai found it sufficient.

As a Breakfast Shop master, if Babaozhai has Breakfast Shop's setup, Qin Huai can make all the snacks he knows.

It just would be slower.

Qin Huai started kneading dough.

While Qin Huai was kneading, Tong Dayan was cutting and preparing at the culinary station next to him, and the other chefs and apprentices in the kitchen were either preparing ingredients or doing odd jobs, with the sound of chopping vegetables rising and falling throughout.

"Master Tong, is Boss Ling really busy today talking to people everywhere trying to recruit, did he succeed?" Qin Huai asked curiously.

As soon as he said this, the chef closest to him nearly cut his own finger as his hand shook while cutting meat.

Tong Dayan's expression didn't change, he just looked somewhat speechlessly at Qin Huai, realizing Qin Huai was just casually gossiping, speaking without even looking up while kneading dough, paused and said, "He's eyeing quite a few."

After speaking, Tong Dayan sneered, "But none of them are interested in him."

"I told you Ling Guangzhao is foolish to think he can recruit me with money, then assume he can recruit other chefs the same way, it's impossible."

"He's overly ambitious, targeting head chefs of major restaurants while barely managing to recruit any regular chefs; dreaming to recruit head chefs, that's ludicrous."

Qin Huai: ... Master Tong, although you're indeed criticizing Ling Guangzhao, you seem to be giving him advice while scolding him.

The other chefs could only quietly cut vegetables, not daring to speak, even softening their actions to avoid making too much noise, so as not to attract the attention of these two great figures. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"Why did you allow yourself to be recruited by Boss Ling, Master Tong?" Qin Huai asked again.

This time Tong Dayan paused for quite a while, but still replied, "I don't have a good reputation, nor a good temper, I've already moved through several restaurants and establishments, and have poor relations with colleagues wherever I go, it's the same everywhere."

"Most crucially, 4 years ago I bought a house on the Second Ring Road, the mortgage isn't paid off, and Ling Guangzhao offered a high salary."

"Is it a school district house?" Qin Huai asked with curiosity, hearing Zhou Yan and Wang Jiayi often chat about school district houses for children at Taste.

Tong Dayan: ...?

"Yes."

"Wow, that's expensive. How old is your child, Master Tong?"

"First grade."

"Is their performance good? Did you enroll them in extracurricular classes, like abacus, violin, taekwondo and the like?"

"Enrolled in piano, Ling Guangzhao recommended the teacher."

"Wow, Boss Ling really is kind. I've heard it's difficult to enroll in these prestigious teachers' classes for children, it's surprising that Boss Ling has those resources."

As Ling Guangzhao entered the kitchen, he heard Qin Huai praising him.

After being secretly criticized by several business owners at the meeting and facing rejection during recruiting, barely any chefs showed for the afternoon exchange meeting, feeling it was rather ill-conceived ending up flopping, with him reluctant to admit it, hearing Qin Huai's words nearly brought him to tears.

Who is it? Which considerate employee spoke so highly of him, I want to give them a bonus, a red envelope!

Moving quickly forward, he found the speaker was Qin Huai.

Ling Guangzhao remembered Qin Huai, as a confident young boss, Ling Guangzhao did have some skill, he was intelligent, with excellent memory.