Chapter 1851: Boss, Are You Jealous?
The Delicacy Extravaganza was an annual feast for the Chaos City’s residents. Meanwhile, to the food and beverage operators, it was a promotion campaign and an opportunity for their restaurants to spring up.
More than 100,000 in human traffic with spending power could easily make an originally unknown little restaurant, or even a little stall, famous.
Such incidents had happened on the Delicacy Extravaganza before.
And this was the motivation for all the big and small vendors for taking part in the Delicacy Extravaganza.
The Delicacy Extravaganza would do a three-month selection for the vendors who wanted to take part in the exhibition to remove those who were unhygienic, and their food wasn’t up to standard. This was to protect the customers’ interests, and make sure that they could enjoy the Delicacy Extravaganza.
The sky was just getting brighter, and the Aden Square’s Delicacy Extravaganza exhibition venue was already getting busy.
The vendors were carrying all kinds of equipment and ingredients into the venue, and began their preparations. The bosses were instructing their employees loudly to place the stuff neatly so they could give the customers a great experience when the exhibition hall opened.
“Boss, whose booth is that? It has such a great location and space, yet nobody is here to set it up until now?”
“Can’t you see that huge signboard? Mamy Restaurant. I heard the president of the Food Association went to invite him personally, and even did a promotion for him at all the entrances. I think… it’s nothing great.”
“Boss, are you jealous?”
“F*ck, I’m jealous.”
The Mamy Restaurant’s booth was located at the exhibition hall’s biggest entrance. It had the Delicacy Extravaganza’s largest human traffic, and the exhibition’s activity stage was close to it. Apparently, there would be a few different shows every single day.
If this booth could be rented with money, many bosses would be willing to pay a high price for it.
However, as the facade of the Delicacy Extravaganza, the vendor of this booth was usually designated by the Food Association. It had always been the Ducas Restaurant for the past few years. Today, it became the Mamy Restaurant, and the Ducas Restaurant’s booth was shifted one position back.
To the food and beverages operators, this change was foreseeable.
Although the Mamy Restaurant had only been open for half a year, it was already a norm for it to dominate the Aden Square food competition’s Delicious Cuisine Rankings and grace many gourmet magazines. Many chowhounds came just to try its dishes.
Such a restaurant was unimaginable in Chaos City before.
Those vendors who were initially unconvinced all shut up after they went to try out Mamy Restaurant personally. Some of them even became supporters of Mamy Restaurant.
Although they were jealous, the majority of the vendors were convinced about the matter that the Food Association placed Mamy Restaurant in the center position.
Furthermore, many vendors who were situated nearby began to hope to catch some customers from Mamy Restaurant’s booth.
Alva, the manager of Ducas Restaurant, stared at the two empty booths with clenched teeth, and said, “No. I can’t take this lying down. It’s fine that they switched us out from our usual position, but why were they given two booths? Our Ducas Restaurant is an old restaurant in Chaos City, and we have been well-known in Chaos City for all these years. Robert isn’t saving any face for us by doing this!”
The employees in charge of the ingredient preparation looked at one another in silence.
The chef, Beate, was standing next to the roasting oven, adjusting the angle and position of the oven seriously.
Alva went to Beate, and asked in a low voice, “Beate, how confident are you about beating him with your new roast pig’s flavor?”
Beate looked at him, and thought for a moment before replying, “50%.”
“So low?” Alva furrowed his brows. Ever since the rise of Mamy Restaurant, the Ducas Restaurant had fallen off the top spot of Chaos City’s food and beverages’s industry.
Initially, he also wanted to increase their menu’s prices after seeing Mamy Restaurant’s steep price, but it only caused them to lose their regular customers. Many of them switched to Mamy Restaurant.
Although he managed to lower their prices in time to keep a portion of their customers, Ducas Restaurant was no longer the synonym for high-end restaurant in their customers’ hearts.
Instead, it became the choice when they couldn’t line up at Mamy Restaurant, or when their gathering wasn’t suited to be held at Mamy Restaurant, as it had a smaller space.
This was unacceptable for the proud Alva. He wanted the Ducas Restaurant to be the people’s top choice, and not a replacement.
Fortunately, after Beate was defeated by Mag, he went to try out new recipes, and finally came up with a brand-new roast pig.
He asked Beate to continue improving the new roast pig product so they could impress and shine at the Delicacy Extravaganza.
The Ducas Restaurant’s booth was next to the Mamy Restaurant’s booth, so they were almost competing side by side. He already couldn’t wait to wipe away their previous humiliation.
“Chef Mag has great culinary skills, so it isn’t an easy feat to defeat him.” Beate threw a glance at the empty booth. A confident gleam appeared in his eyes. “But, I am very confident with our roast pig this time.”
“Alright, I believe you.” Alva nodded, and didn’t say anything more.
***
Mag still woke up at 6am as usual. He made an individual breakfast for Irina first before eating breakfast with Miya and the ladies after they arrived. He also briefed them about their work plans today.
Firis was in charge of the ingredient preparation, and Yabemiya was in charge of receiving the customers and packing the food, while Shirley and Anna were in charge of receiving payment.
Gina, Jane, and Angela were in charge of the octopus tentacle booth on the other side. Babla hadn’t returned yet, while Camilla and Elizabeth applied for a leave. However, the manpower was still ample now.
Mag stood up, and said to all of them, “The number of customers that we serve today might be many times our usual number of customers, but we only need to do four dishes today, and we don’t need to serve and clear the tables. Let’s go!”
“Let’s go!” all the ladies shouted with a smile too.
“Then, let’s set off now. We still need to decorate the booth simply.” Mag opened the door, and used two big trolleys to load up all the kitchenware, the octopus tentacles, and two standing advertising boards. Then, they proceeded to the Delicacy Extravaganza.
Mag didn’t bring too much kitchenware: a triple stove, three grilling stoves for the octopus balls, and a movable chopping station. After setting all of them up, the booth was still very spacious.
On the other side, Gina and the other ladies had already placed the octopus tentacles on the shelves. The L-shaped shelves facing the entrance were filled with octopus tentacles of all sizes, which looked rather intimidating.
“This octopus tentacle is huge. That octopus must be huge too, right?” Jane whispered as she struggled to put a giant octopus tentacle almost 50 kg heavy onto the counter.
“Don’t you come from the seaside? Have you ever seen a live octopus before?” Yabemiya asked curiously as she helped to display the octopus tentacles.
“I’ve only seen them in the size of a palm. I’ve never seen such a big one before.” Jane shook her head, looked at the octopus tentacle that was as thick as her waist, and stuck out her little tongue. “I will definitely be eaten by it if I ever meet it.”