Fighting for the window? It looks like the curtains are drawn.
Lu Yao could understand it, just like she liked to sit by the window when riding in a car, and her mood would become better when she saw the scenery passing by outside the window.
Nowadays, many restaurants take environmental factors into consideration when choosing a location. Things like the night view of the river, being backed by an oxygen park, and overlooking the entire city are all publicity gimmicks and can also increase added value for the restaurant.
Except for the lack of food, the lifestyle and architectural style of the people in this world were actually similar to her world, so she relaxed her guard a little, thinking that they would not find it strange even if the scenery outside the window was exposed.
At most, he would think like Bai Ming that it was a false illusion created by her magic.
She confirmed with the system that she could freely travel between the two worlds because she was bound to the system. Even if other people could see the scenery of the other world, they could not go there.
This is also one of the reasons why she feels comfortable letting customers into the store.
Fighting for seats is understandable, but fighting is a bit too much.
Lu Yao stopped what he was doing, picked up the wet towel on the counter, wiped his hands and walked into the store, "I'll go take a look."
There was another customer in front of the grill, and that was Xingzi who worked at a movie theater.
She ordered spicy grilled chicken wings, grilled pig's trotters, chive and egg pie, and strawberry soda.
Bai Ming was flipping the grilled chicken wings and pig's trotters. He glanced at Xingzi and said calmly, "Wait a minute, I'll go in and take a look."
Xingzi nodded with a smile, walked around the grill and followed Bai Ming: "I'll go take a look too."
When Lu Yao entered the store, he found that things were even more exaggerated than he had expected.
She originally thought that two guests were fighting, but when she came in, she found that it was a round-robin fight. In the corner inside, there were a bunch of people piled up on the ground like a human pyramid, and there were three or four people wrestling with each other near the window.
Lu Yao tried to persuade them to stop fighting. Those people stopped and looked at Lu Yao, then turned back and continued fighting.
"I'll take this position first!"
"Bullshit, I was the first one to come here!"
"Get away from me, you little jerk. I carved my name on the table. This is my exclusive seat from now on!"
Lu Yao: “…”
This is just the way noobs fight each other, and they even talk trash to each other.
Bai Ming walked into the store, put Lu Yao behind him, and said in a cold and forceful tone: "You scared my store manager, I will beat you and put you in the small dark room."
The store became quiet. The people who were fighting each other separated silently, and the group of people lying in the corner also got up and looked at Bai Ming eagerly.
"We won't fight anymore. Don't send us to the dark room."
"No more fighting, no more fighting. I'm sorry, store owner. I was too excited just now."
"I'm sorry, shopkeeper. I'm full. I'm leaving now and will come back tomorrow."
Lu Yao felt that the three words "small dark room" were probably similar to the "police station" in the world today, and more effective.
Most of the troublemakers had left, leaving only a middle-aged man, who was one of the three or four people who had just been fighting.
The middle-aged man in a ginger short-sleeved T-shirt got up from the ground and followed the crowd to leave. He walked to the door and looked back at the window. He couldn't help but look back in front of Lu Yao, his eyes full of strong emotions: "Shopkeeper, there is another world outside the window, right? I see - um -"
Before the man could finish his words, Bai Ming punched him in the stomach, then dragged him out like a chicken, and said to Lu Yao, "Manager, this man is mentally unstable. I'll send him to the dark room first and be back soon."
Lu Yao: “…Oh…Oh.”
The small dark room is actually a mental hospital
This doesn't seem to be the point.
Xingzi walked to the window at some point and looked out in a daze.
Lu Yao felt a little guilty and thought about finding some time to seal the windows.
Xingzi noticed Lu Yao approaching, and came back to her senses, with a gleam in her eyes, "The owner's illusion technique is really superb, even the illusion is so real."
Lu Yao paused, a little confused, "Do you think it's real? I was just thinking about sealing the windows to prevent the guests from fighting."
Xingzi was a little anxious when she heard this, so she took a deep breath to calm herself down and said calmly, "Those people are too weak to even tell the difference between real and fake. There's no need for the shop owner to ruin such a rare view. Illusions are just illusions after all, and after a while, they'll get used to it and won't argue with them."
"Well, let me think about it."
What Xingzi said made some sense. Lu Yao also liked the river view outside the window. It would be great if he could disguise it so that guests couldn't see it.
System: [Spend 200 popularity points to upgrade the store and expand the store's space. Add another 50 popularity points, and the system can modify the store's layout according to the store owner's requirements. Do you want to upgrade the store? ]
The task of "receiving one thousand guests" has only been completed by one third, and it will take at least two to three days to complete.
Yao didn't have that much popularity points, let alone modify the store layout, so she declined the system's suggestion.
Xingzi's round eyes rolled around, and she suddenly suggested to Lu Yao: "Shopkeeper, your business is good, and there will be more and more people in the future. You and the new guy can only look after the outside. It's better to have a waiter in the store to pay attention to the needs of the customers at any time."
By the way, you can also ask the customers not to fight over the windows anymore. Xingzi didn't say this, but she felt that Lu Yao understood it.
Lu Yao had indeed thought of this. It only took fifty popularity points to add an employee, who could not only help but also look after the guests and protect the "illusion" outside the window.
"Well, what you said makes sense." Lu Yao nodded in acceptance.
Xingzi blinked, stood up in front of Lu Yao, and said seriously: "Since the store owner wants to recruit people, what do you think of me?"
"Hey, you want to change jobs?" Lu Yao was a little surprised.
She had not been to the cinema next door yet, but she knew it was very big from the luxurious decoration outside.
Even if she was just doing service work, it would definitely be more promising than working in her snack bar.
Xingzi said, "Well, I want to apply for the position of waiter in your store. I used to be a ticket seller and salesperson in the cinema, selling tickets and popcorn. I am used to facing customers and have rich work experience. As for the remuneration, I can do the same as the new guy. It doesn't matter if it's a little lower, as long as I can eat in the store. What do you think?"
As expected, it was another person from another world who wanted to eat at her house.
Lu Yao was a little hesitant at first, but he suddenly felt relieved after hearing Xingzi's last words.
When she was trying out a new product last night, she was really shocked by the way Bai Ming ate.
There were all kinds of snacks and drinks, which probably weighed more than 20 kilograms in total. Bai Ming ate them all and even wanted to steal the ingredients in the pot that were prepared to be sold.
She fully understood how much food appealed to the inhabitants of this world.
Lu Yao also valued the work experience that Xingzi mentioned, and she was indeed very suitable to work in the store.
However, Lu Yao did not agree immediately: "How about this, just like Bai Ming, the probation period is one week. If you can adapt to the work in the store, you can start work after a week."
Xingzi smiled and nodded: "Okay, owner, let me go back and resign."
"Okay, we're done for today. You can come over tomorrow morning." After Lu Yao finished chatting with Xingzi, he turned around and started to pack up the stall.
Bai Ming saw the guest off and immediately came back to help clean up.
Lu Yao took a break and told him that a new clerk would be coming tomorrow, and Bai Ming nodded to show that he understood.
On the first day Xingzi came to the store, she taught Lu Yao a good lesson.
It was in the afternoon when they closed their stalls, and Lu Yao called the farmers' market to send the ingredients for the next day. She had already contacted several owners, and drinks, vegetables, fresh meat and seasonings were all delivered by special people.
While waiting for the goods, Xingzi came to Lu Yao with the menu of the store, and her expression was very solemn: "Manager, I want to tell you something."
Lu Yao suddenly felt that something might have happened, perhaps he encountered problems at work.
She observed all day and found Xingzi very capable, and she didn't hear any customers fighting for seats. With her help, Lu Yao could concentrate on making food and felt much more relaxed.
Lu Yao was quite satisfied with Xingzi, so he sat up straight and said, "Well, go ahead."
Xingzi pushed the menu in front of Lu Yao and said, "Manager, don't you think there is something wrong with our menu?"
Lu Yao: “What’s the problem?”
Is it because it’s too expensive
She later came up with a way to convert the time into hourly wages for a simple calculation.
Calculated at eight yuan an hour, which is a very low hourly wage, a chicken wing costs six hours, which is 48 yuan in RMB, which is really not cheap.
After converting her income from the past few days, she got a huge number. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart again, how nice it would be if it was all money!!!
Xingzi shook her head, "Too cheap! The popcorn I gave you last time is sold in cinemas for 24 hours. The spicy grilled wings in our store are so troublesome to make and taste so good, but they only sell for six hours. And the grilled pig's trotters are even more troublesome than grilled chicken wings, but they are only sold for ten hours. The worst thing is the chive pancake, which is sold every three hours. Don't you feel sad?"
Lu Yao: "...Ah? Hmm."
Lu Yao lowered his eyes, looking ashamed, and was still calculating in his mind how much a serving of popcorn would cost for 24 hours.
Xingzi slammed the table and said, "Manager, raise the price. Increase the price tenfold for each item first, and then adjust it based on the situation later."
ten times…
If a chicken wing costs forty-eight, multiply that by ten, that’s four hundred and eight… Lu Yao was a little scared.
Xingzi was full of energy and watched Lu Yao modify the price.
Lu Yao had no choice but to take a pen and write it down on the menu, and told Xingzi that he would make a new menu and change it tomorrow.
Spicy grilled wings: 60 hours for one, 120 hours for a pair
Spicy roasted pig's trotters: one serving per 100 hours
Chive Omelette: One every 30 hours
Fermented rice balls: one bowl every 40 hours
Strawberry Soda: One Cup per 80 Hours
Ice milk: one box every thirty hours
…
In the evening, after Xingzi left, Lu Yao slowly modified the menu, and always felt like he was running a shady shop.
Originally, she was worried that raising the price overnight would result in losing some customers. Xingzi very skillfully put up a sign outside the door, which roughly meant that the opening promotion was over and food would be sold at normal prices from then on.
The customers did not react much to this and still lined up every day, with the customer flow showing an increasing trend.
Lu Yao: Sister Xingzi is quite capable.
After observing for many days, Lu Yao found that the table with a window in the store was still the most popular among customers.
But Xingzi was right. After a while, everyone seemed to get used to it. No one asked her about the scenery outside the window anymore. They all accepted the statement that "it was an illusion created by Lu Yao."
But their enthusiasm remained unabated, and the guests even began to line up and take turns to sit at that table.
[Successfully receive one thousand guests, complete the mission, and be rewarded with one thousand popularity points. ]
[Luyao Snack Shop is crowded with customers, upgraded to a three-star store. Added 1 new dish, added live broadcast function, do you want to broadcast live in the current world?]
Lu Yao thought about this "live broadcast function" and after consideration, decided not to turn it on for the time being.
What she is most interested in at the moment is upgrading the store. She wants to expand the store and renovate the store layout at the same time.
After closing the store at night, Lu Yao spent several hours drawing a new store interior plan and spent 250 popularity points to allow the system to upgrade the store.
This upgrade involves a lot of details and will require twelve hours of maintenance.
In order not to delay the store opening during the day, Lu Yao decided not to upgrade that day, but to close the store early the next afternoon and then carry out maintenance.
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The snack bar was open as usual. Chen Meiyue and Li Shasha were regular customers. Young people who lived far away would come every now and then. Some people from the nearby park had also come to eat recently. Besides, you could see some new faces every day.
Behind the crowd, Bai Lu stretched his neck to look forward, eyes full of disbelief: "Is this a snack bar? There are too many people. When will it be our turn?"
The young man behind Bai Lu was called Bai He. He signaled her to be low-key: "Be more restrained and don't show off your true colors."
These two people are high-level NPCs in the park. Their levels are much higher than those of Bubble and the other two, and they can occasionally act as bosses.
After Bai Jian's last failure, he reflected deeply for a few days and thought that his decision was wrong and he should not have let those three little fools, Bubble, cause trouble.
Not only did he not get the job done, he was also instigated by the snack bar.
Recently, he often saw the three little NPCs sneaking to the snack bar after get off work, and Bai Jian was almost mad.
After much thought, he called two more capable NPCs in the park, Bai Lu and Bai He.
Bai Jian’s request was simple. He didn’t expect to bring down the snack bar, he just wanted Lu Yao to give up Bai Ming.
He heard Lu Yao say that day that there would be a seven-day trial period, and he would decide whether to keep Bai Ming after it was over.
Today is the last day of the seven-day period. As long as Lu Yao gives up, Bai Ming will have to come back to be the guard.
Bai Lu and Bai He waited in line for a long time and finally got to the front.
They were very lucky. Just as they were about to place the order, they heard the owner announce that the store would close early today and that they would be the last one to come.
The two of them still remembered to cause trouble for Bai Ming, so they only bought the spicy grilled wings and grilled pig's trotters that Bai Ming was responsible for.
Their script was very simple. They specifically picked out things made by Bai Ming, and then went to Lu Yao to complain that there were problems with the food made by Bai Ming, starting with the appearance and authenticity.
If Lu Yao did not react, he would further accuse Bai Ming of injecting resentment into the food and having bad intentions.
To avoid being discovered by Bai Ming, they carried the things into the store.
After Lu Yao announced the store would close early, all the customers who had finished their meals left.
There was only one waiter in the store at that time, and he was an acquaintance. Baihe and Bailu felt that this was a godsend.
The two of them casually pulled out two chairs and sat down. Just as they were about to take advantage of the situation and ask Xingzi to call the owner over, they looked up and noticed that the place they were sitting in was a little unusual.
There was actually a window next to the table. Outside the window, the river was flowing slowly, and birds were flying in the distance. Looking further, a huge red Ferris wheel was slowly rising. There were other amusement facilities at a lower place, and one could even hear screams coming from outside the window.
Baihe turned to look at Xingzi, his eyes confused: "This is..."
Xingzi came over with a smile and explained, "This is an illusion made by our store manager himself. It seems real and unreal. The customers like it very much."
Bai He rolled his eyes and whispered, "Xingzi, stop lying. Ordinary people don't understand, but we can't see it? This is clearly-"
Before Baihe could finish his words, Xingzi grabbed the back of his head and slammed his head into the plate in front of him.
After a dull sound, the plate broke. Xingzi continued with a smile: "It's obvious that our owner is a master of illusion, enough to make the fake look real."
Baihe moved his head stiffly, asking for mercy, and only then did Xingzi let him go.
The white deer across from him picked up the chicken wing and took a bite, his eyes sparkling: "Baihe, this is delicious, you should try it."
Bai He had buried his entire face in the plate just now, and his forehead and cheeks were covered in oil, so he naturally tasted the spicy chicken wings.
He didn't feel embarrassed. He picked up the chicken wing and started to eat it. He glanced at Bai Lu and said, "You are calm."
Bai Lu shook her calves, her eyes sparkling: "I can understand why Bai Ming and Sister Xingzi want to stay here. But can you two really protect her?"
If others knew that a challenger had accidentally entered the other world, the weak shop owner would be torn apart and eaten in minutes.
Xingzi smiled and retorted: "You don't have to worry about that. If she dies, the spicy grilled wings, chive omelette, strawberry soda... everything will disappear. Can you answer the multiple-choice question?"
What's more, there is this otherworldly view outside the window, who can refuse it
Bai Lu and Bai He finished their meal and left.
Back in the park, they did not mention to Bai Jian what was special about the snack bar. They only said that no matter how they lobbied, the owner recognized Bai Ming's ability and did not want to fire him.
Seeing that Bai Jian looked unhappy, Bai Lu praised Bai Jian for his ability in judging people and said that the talents he cultivated were one in a million and they shined wherever they went.
Bai Jian: “…”
I felt so sick that I wanted to vomit blood, and I hated Lu Yao and her snack bar even more.
After Lu Yao closed the store early, it started maintenance.
The next day the store had changed dramatically.
[You have a new mission! Achieve the fame achievement through live broadcast, and the final mission of this world will be unlocked! Do you want to start the live broadcast? ]
!!!
After completing the final mission, you can go to the next world, where you might be able to make money.
Lu Yao, whose wallet had become much thinner, was ready to fight: "Yes!"