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Chapter 151.2 – Nitpicking
“This little waiter’s temperament is too impatient. My husband is just trying to test you, and yet you’re so impatient? It seems that the quality of service of this An Family Restaurant is not very good!”
The waiter really wanted to ask her how was he being impatient. He has kept a smile on his face from beginning to end, so at which point did he seem impatient? Bao Xin Chun didn’t give him a chance to say anything. She picked up the menu, flipped to the back, and ordered a hamburger.
“This thing is really expensive. It’s just two slices of steamed buns plus a piece of meat, and it costs fifteen copper coins. You should know that twenty-five copper coins can buy a catty of beef.”
Bao Xin Chun did not keep her voice down. No matter how one parsed her words she was clearly nitpicking at any fault that she could find. She was also hinting to everyone present that the hamburger was not worth this price, especially her last sentence. Upon hearing her words, some people would immediately start to clack away at the abacus within their hearts and think that instead of buying a single hamburger for fifteen copper coins, it would be more worth it to buy a catty of beef for another ten copper coins and share that meat with their entire family.
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The waiter could see the customers’ shifting expressions, but he was not anxious.
It’s true that if you compared the two, buying a catty of beef was more cost-effective than buying a single hamburger, but anyone who has eaten a hamburger knew that the taste was definitely one in a million. Even if you bought the beef yourself and tried to recreate the dish at home, the taste would not be the same.
That’s because the beef used in this restaurant’s hamburgers were flavored with Jiang Yu’s unique secret recipe handed down from her ancestors. It was a unique secret recipe that one never tired of eating and it was a recipe that no one else could imitate.
The waiter did not bother to explain this.
Bao Xin Chun thought that the waiter was struck speechless by her words and was secretly feeling very proud of herself.
The two of them were not short on money, so they ordered five dishes.
The waiter was worried that the two of them would find fault again if the food arrived late, so he explained the situation to the two chefs in the kitchen, namely Jiang Yu and Chef Wang. This was the restaurant’s big opening day. In order to get the customers to return, the two chefs were in the kitchen personally making everything themselves and the other people in the kitchen were just assisting.
“Understood. No need to worry. Just do things according to order. If they find fault on purpose, you just need to answer them truthfully.”
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Chef Wang’s expression was as steady as usual. Back in An Yuan County, he had met many picky customers like this, and among them a lot of them were envious of their restaurant.
The waiter agreed happily before running out the kitchen.
Due to the large number of customers in the restaurant, by the time it was Zhuo Gao Ming and his wife’s turn it was already half an hour later. Zhuo Gao Ming wanted to throw a fit at first, but his wife held him back.
If they wanted to ruin the reputation of the restaurant, they needed a reasonable situation, and not such a petty thing.
In addition to ordering a hamburger, the two ordered four other home-styled dishes, such as broccoli with mushrooms and fried pig ears with green peppers. The dishes didn’t look particularly special, but the aroma was very alluring.
The husband and wife pair looked at each other. Then they began to polish off the food on the table. Their lips were soon greasy with oil and sauces.
The waiter observed the husband and wife pair for a long while, seeing that they weren’t making any more unreasonable demands, he thought that they had given up for now, so he stopped paying particular attention to them. That was until a loud screech sounded in the restaurant lobby and the waiter quickly came back. When he saw that the screeching had come from Bao Xin Chun, unease stirred in his stomach. He was so busy running back and forth that he had put these two out of his mind.
In the crowded lobby full of people, Bao Xin Chun’s scream immediately attracted everyone’s attention.
“It’s disgusting, how could there be cockroaches in this hamburger?”
Bao Xin Chun and her husband immediately pretended to retch after shouting.
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When the surrounding customers saw that there was indeed a cockroach in the hamburger, they immediately showed disgusted expressions. In an instant they lost their appetite, regardless of whether or not they had ordered a hamburger themselves.
Shopkeeper Liu had already pinned these two customers as troublemakers. He knew that the reason Boss Sun’s teahouse went bankrupt was because of these two. They even pretended to be buyers, hoping to purchase Boss Sun’s teahouse at a low price. When he saw them show up today, he knew right away that they were planning to cause trouble.
This method of framing a restaurant by saying that they have cockroaches in their food was no longer a special trick. Even the restaurants in the popular East District would occasionally have such a situation happen to them.
