Big Shot's Sweetheart Shocked the World Again!-Chapter 688: The Duel between Chinese and Western Cuisine! Mr. Bo’s Great Spirit
Zhou Youjian was stung by this blatant mockery.
Famo Mansion is just a western restaurant that opened a few years ago. Taking advantage of the craze for French cuisine in the capital, it spent a lot of money poaching seasoned chefs from other western restaurants and recently hired a young internet celebrity chef, creating what they call an internet-famous restaurant.
It cooks whatever is trendy, without any fixed style of its own.
But such a western restaurant, which seemed to have no style or heritage in Zhou Youjian’s eyes, had beaten his long-established Chinese restaurant to a pulp, causing their revenue to plummet like a freefall.
Recently, it became even more exaggerated. Because the rival devised some chef-special red wine foie gras, even the long-time patrons of his establishment were lured away, and they showed no signs of returning.
His "Shi Hui Jian" hadn’t seen a customer walk through the door for several days. The costs for rent, utilities, and staff salaries alone amounted to over 20,000 a day, and the losses were mounting.
Could it be that he really had to admit defeat, ruining his family legacy of a restaurant and closing down for good?
Looking at the bustling Famo Mansion across the street, with the queue numbers already over five hundred, while he had none... 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
Zhou Youjian sighed heavily, having to admit that though the property manager’s words were harsh, they might be true: "Alright, I’ll close today... uh, could I, plead to waive today’s rent of ten thousand for us?"
Forced into such a predicament, he couldn’t even afford his pride for the sake of survival and had to beg humbly.
After all, saving ten thousand could give the employees a bit more severance.
But just when the property manager was about to respond.
A tall, plump man burst out of the restaurant: "Dad, you can’t close! Teacher Cao Yu said she’ll come, and she always keeps her word, she never breaks a promise!"
"But... son, she might not come today, and we can’t hold on until tomorrow."
"Dad, can’t you wait a bit longer? Trust me! All of us who watch the livestreams together, learn English, study ancient texts, and I’m learning drawing... have improved rapidly. Now that Teacher Cao Yu is finally teaching culinary arts, our family can’t miss this opportunity!"
The property manager listened with a bout of laughter: "Old Zhou, is there something wrong with your son’s head, should see a doctor. Wasn’t there a recent scandal with a streamer selling things and harming people? Don’t get hooked on live streams, your son hasn’t even taken college entrance exams, what will he do in the future."
"I’m taking the art major exam! Who needs your concern!"
"Fine, I’m too lazy to worry about your family. Today’s rent of ten thousand can’t be waived! We can’t run a charity just because you have no business, can we? Vacate by tomorrow morning, or see you in court!"
Negotiations fell apart, and the manager stormed off.
Son, Zhou Yingjun, watched his father’s dejected figure and scratched his head: "Dad, since they’ll deduct the ten thousand anyway today, why not wait for Teacher Cao Yu?"
Zhou Youjian looked down the corridor, the elevator was full, and everyone was heading to Famo Mansion, none to Shi Hui Jian.
The aroma wafting from Famo Mansion made even him a bit tempted...
His voice was parched: "You go review for your art exam, I’ll wait here."
The restaurant had no way out; it was doomed either way... Saying they were waiting for Xi Rubao was more like he wanted to stay quietly by the entrance alone.
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At this moment.
Bao Gucheng had already arrived at the hotel, picking up Xi Zuzi and Xi Rubao to get into the car.
Last night, he exercised till dawn, took a quick cold shower, and had a brief rest, but was still full of energy at the moment, showing no signs of last night’s exertion.
