When Feng Yifan and his friends went to a nearby supermarket to shop, the hotel they were staying in welcomed a group of guests.
This time, the general manager received the news in advance and personally brought the hotel management to greet them at the door, which surprised the hotel staff. They didn't quite understand who these people were.
The general manager came to greet us with a group of people headed by a tall and strong foreigner.
As soon as the other party entered the door, he asked the hotel general manager: "Where is Feng Yifan?"
The manager was a little confused by the other party's fluent Chinese. He had already found a translator and was well prepared to welcome the other party, but he did not expect that the other party could speak Chinese so well.
The manager hesitated for a moment and quickly replied: "Oh, he has checked in and should be out now. I think he will be back soon."
The foreigner said in a deep voice: "Well, then I will wait here for him to come back."
This made the manager feel that something was wrong. Why did this person suddenly wait for Feng Yifan to come back? Was there any grudge between him and Feng Yifan
But the manager didn't dare to ask more questions because this foreigner is now the executive chef of all the restaurants in the hotel.
It can even be said that this person is already a member of the hotel management.
As the general manager of a domestic hotel, he dared not show the slightest disrespect to the other party.
Instead, a lady accompanying the group whispered to the executive chef, "Chef, we are here to inspect the service and quality of hotels and restaurants in China. So let's not cause any trouble, okay?"
The head chef said seriously, "What's wrong? Can't I come here in person and meet Feng Yifan?"
As they were talking, Feng Yifan, Shi Jiahui and Shi Tao walked into the hotel carrying bags of things they bought from the supermarket.
As soon as I entered the door, I naturally saw a group of people waiting in the hotel lobby.
When Feng Yifan saw the executive chef, he was stunned for a moment, then his mouth curled up slightly, and he took the initiative to walk up to him with a smile: "Walsh, why are you here? Did you come to see me specifically? Do you want to compete with me? Are you still not convinced?"
When the entourage that came with Walsh heard Feng Yifan's words, they looked at each other and dared not speak.
Walsh stared at Feng Yifan, straightened his back, and tried to use his taller physique to put some pressure on the other party.
However, although Feng Yifan is not as tall as Walsh, he is not inferior to the other in terms of physical fitness, so he will not be suppressed by the other's momentum at all.
In fact, when Feng Yifan put down what he was holding and pretended to roll up his sleeves, it was Walsh who took two steps back.
Feng Yifan rolled up his sleeves, looked at Walsh who had stepped back, picked up the things on the ground again and said with a smile: "Don't be so nervous, we are all civilized people, this is a public place, I won't use my fists directly."
Walsh was accompanied by the lady who had just reminded him and stepped forward to help explain.
"Hello, Mr. Feng, the head chef is here to inspect this time."
Feng Yifan suddenly understood.
After thinking about the time, I realized that it was indeed the inspection time stipulated by the hotel.
Internal hotel inspections are usually carried out by the hotel headquarters, which sends a team led by management to inspect all internal and external facilities of chain hotels around the world.
To ensure that the quality of hotel chains in various locations can be maintained above the requirements of the headquarters.
This is also the key to this hotel chain's ability to maintain its reputation while opening hotels all over the world.
What a coincidence that this time the team responsible for the domestic hotel inspection was led by Walsh.
Walsh is now the executive chef of the hotel restaurant. He was also Feng Yifan's assistant in the hotel restaurant.
Of course, Walsh has always been unconvinced, thinking that Feng Yifan was just lucky at the time, so he was able to get the restaurant one star with that set of dishes.
What's more, for a restaurant to get a one-star rating, it is not just the food, but also many service ratings, which are also the key to a restaurant getting one star.
Therefore, Walsh always felt that Feng Yifan was able to obtain a one-star rating only because of the improvement in service quality within the hotel after the hotel's senior management restructured the hotel.
Although Walsh was not convinced, he had worked his way up from head chef to executive chef over the years, but he had never been able to get the hotel restaurant rated even one star, and it still maintained a one-star rating. Even though Walsh was not convinced, he could do nothing about it.
Especially when facing Feng Yifan, Walsh always felt ashamed because of this problem.
Sure enough, Feng Yifan suddenly smiled and asked, "By the way, after so many years, hasn't our restaurant been upgraded yet?"
This sentence was like a sharp thorn, piercing Walsh's heart in an instant.
Even Walsh's entourage and the group of people in charge of hotel reception felt a chill in their hearts at Feng Yifan's question.
But after glaring for a moment, Walsh completely ignored the question.
He turned to the hotel manager and said, "We are exhausted from rushing here. Can you arrange for us to stay now?"
The hotel manager immediately came to his senses and said, "Okay, Mr. Chef, we have arranged a room for you."
Feng Yifan suddenly asked, "Are you on the same floor as me?"
The manager was stunned again, then said helplessly: "Yes, you are all on the same floor."
Then the manager asked Walsh, "Mr. Chef, would you like me to change it for you?"
Walsh glanced at the manager, then shook his head and said, "No, it's our honor to live on the same floor as the former chef."
Feng Yifan smiled happily, called up the senior sister and Shi Tao, and said to Walsh: "Okay, let's go up together."
Everyone actually took the same elevator upstairs, but the atmosphere in the elevator seemed a little awkward.
However, it was obviously the others who were embarrassed, while Feng Yifan had a big smile on his face and didn't look embarrassed at all.
Shi Jiahui and Shi Tao, mother and son, also found the show very interesting as they watched from the side.
Walsh is obviously a foreigner who is taller and more powerful than Feng Yifan, but when he is in front of Feng Yifan, he obviously looks much shorter than Feng Yifan.
It's that very typical feeling that makes people feel that he is a head shorter than Feng Yifan.
While going upstairs, Feng Yifan talked with Walsh and others about the past of this hotel.
Some interesting things that happened in the kitchen when he was in the headquarters hotel.
He even complimented Walsh: "In fact, I felt at that time that sooner or later, Walsh, you would become the head chef or even the executive chef, because the other chefs in the hotel were so bad, and you would be the most suitable candidate."
At this point, Feng Yifan patted the other person on the shoulder and said, "You really didn't disappoint me."
Seeing this scene, Shi Tao almost couldn't help laughing.
Because the scene where Feng Yifan patted Walsh on the shoulder and encouraged him was really interesting.
Feng Yifan is obviously younger than Walsh in terms of height, physique and age, but he is like an elder and simply suppresses Walsh with his aura.
Under this kind of oppressive aura, Walsh was like a primary school student and could only obey orders.
Fortunately, the elevator was very fast. When the elevator door opened, Walsh breathed a sigh of relief.
But outside the elevator door, there were two little girls standing.
Almost at the moment the elevator door opened, the two little girls shouted in unison: "Dad (Feng Dad)."
Feng Yifan smiled, pushed Walsh aside, walked out of the elevator, squatted down and hugged the two little girls.
Feng Ruoruo hugged her father's neck and asked, "Dad, where have you been? Xixi and I can't see you when we get up. We miss you so much."
Hearing his daughter's words, Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Really? You miss your dad so much in just a short while?"
Feng Ruoruo hugged her father and said, "Yes, yes, I do."
The group of people who came out of the elevator were a little surprised to see this scene.
Walsh in particular was somewhat incredible.
After a long while, Feng Yifan stood up after being intimate with the two little girls. Walsh then asked, "Feng Yifan, when did you have a daughter? And your daughter is already this big?"
When Feng Ruoruo heard the other party's question, she raised her head in her father's arms and looked at the other party.
Yang Xiaoxi also raised her head to look.
The next moment, both little girls were intimidated by Walsh’s size.
Yang Xiaoxi couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wow, Ruoruo, he's so tall."
Feng Ruoruo also nodded: "Yes, very tall and fat, like a big bear."
Walsh was called a big bear by the two little girls, and for a moment he didn't know how to respond. The entourage that came with Walsh couldn't help laughing when they heard the innocent exclamations of the two little girls. In order to avoid being discovered by Walsh, some people even turned around and covered their mouths.
Feng Yifan stood up with a smile, and pulled the two little girls and said, "Don't be rude. He is here to inspect the hotel we are staying in. He wants to check the service quality of the uncles and aunts in the hotel, and also check whether the food in the hotel restaurant is delicious."
Then he introduced the uncle to the little girls: "This uncle is called Walsh. He used to be Dad's colleague."
Feng Ruoruo took the initiative to greet Walsh: "Hello, uncle."
Yang Xiaoxi also said, "Hello, uncle."
When Walsh was greeted by two little girls, he could only quickly bend down and say hello: "Hello."
But then Walsh was a little surprised: "You two, don't seem to be afraid of me? Don't you think it's strange that a big guy like me is your father's colleague?"
Feng Ruoruo shook her head: "No, there were other foreigners here before, and they said they were my father's colleagues."
Yang Xiaoxi continued, "Yes, Catherine, Hans, and Tom are also colleagues of Father Feng. They are going back to prepare things and will be back soon to open a shop next to Father Feng's restaurant."
After hearing what the little girl said, Walsh looked at Feng Yifan in surprise: "You are going to open a restaurant?"
Feng Yifan smiled and replied: "I'm not going to open a restaurant, I'm going to keep running my father-in-law's restaurant."
Walsh then asked, "So, this is why you must resign from the hotel?"
Feng Yifan shook his head: "That's not the case. I resigned from the hotel restaurant several years ago. At that time, I didn't want to come back, but the standard of the hotel restaurant was not enough for me to improve myself."
At this time, the woman accompanying Walsh came closer and said a few words.
Walsh exclaimed again: "So, you went to so many restaurants? Did Perovence get three stars because you were the head chef at the time?"
Feng Yifan just smiled and nodded.
Among Walsh's entourage, a young man suddenly stood up and exclaimed in a foreign language: "Ah, there are recent rumors that the sous chef and pastry chef of Perovence have left."
Walsh looked at Feng Yifan and asked, "Are they coming to see you?"
Feng Yifan smiled and replied: "It's not like they came to me. They just wanted to open their own store and be closer to my restaurant."
Considering what the two little girls said just now, Walsh probably understood the whole thing.
Walsh couldn't help but admire Feng Yifan in his heart.
He was able to successfully get a hotel restaurant one star, and even made a restaurant that was not very famous successfully get a three-star rating. He is truly a very talented master.
And now, because of his personal charm, the sous chef of that restaurant actually took the initiative to leave the three-star restaurant and join him, which was something Walsh did not expect.
Feng Yifan smiled and said to Walsh: "Okay, let's say goodbye here. We won't disturb your work anymore."
After saying this, he turned around and left, taking the two little girls with him.
Walsh hesitated and asked, "Feng Yifan, can I treat you to dinner?"
Feng Yifan stopped, thought for a moment and said, "Dinner? Not today, you should do your things first. When you are done, if I haven't left yet, we can eat together."
Walsh watched Feng Yifan finish his words, then he left holding the two little girls’ hands, with a few people following behind him.
At this moment, Walsh really felt a little lost.
The little bit of pride he had in his heart was completely shattered in front of Feng Yifan.
Only now did he realize that what he had spent most of his life pursuing was actually worthless to Feng Yifan.
Now Walsh also understood why the hotel was ultimately unable to keep Feng Yifan.
It's really that the hotel's top management has no ambition.
Because the hotel's top management focuses on the hotel as a whole, for them, it is enough for the restaurant to get one star, they do not have any higher aspirations.
This was unacceptable to Feng Yifan, so he chose to leave.
It turned out that Feng Yifan was right to leave.
Walsh felt that if Feng Yifan stayed in the hotel restaurant, even if he took his seat, he would not be able to achieve what Feng Yifan wanted.
Walsh and his team then checked into their hotel room and immediately began their review.
Feng Yifan led his daughters back to the room and gave everyone a brief introduction to Walsh and others, as well as some internal review systems of this international hotel chain.
After listening to this, Yang Zhiyi and Shi Tao were both a little surprised. They didn't expect the hotel's internal inspection to be so strict.
Shi Jiahui was relatively calm because the hotel she worked in before also had a similar censorship system.
These strict self-censorship systems are the key to these high-end hotels maintaining their reputation.