Free Web NovelChapter 557: Chapter 469: An Unexpected Twist—You Don’t Know How to Prepare Fish?
Lucas’s platform account is growing bigger and bigger, like a snowball.
When he first started, he even used discounts or giveaways to attract followers.
Now he has transformed into a food blogger with close to hundreds of thousands of followers.
His food blogging path is different from other bloggers, neither restaurant exploration nor mukbang, it’s purely live recording.
These videos that capture live footage and the reactions of chefs, waiters, and even guests look more authentic, with almost no chance of being fake.
It’s impossible to hire hundreds of different people to pretend to be tourists every day, right?
Obviously unrealistic.
Plus the promotion on Radisson’s official website, the forum on the homepage, along with guests from the farm and fishery, everything ends up intersecting with Lucas’s social media platform, becoming one of the key ways to draw traffic.
The traffic drawn also contributes to his account, with dozens of private messages about business collaborations.
He only mentioned this to Lin Chen, but Lin Chen isn’t very clear about business matters, so he handed it over to Wang Ziqin.
Now the maintenance of his platform account is no longer completed alone; a special team has been set up by the hotel to follow up, and he only needs to focus on filming and editing.
After posting so many videos, his channel has formed a distinctive style. Having others edit the videos might not produce the same style and could result in the loss of followers, making it not worth it.
The waiters watched the videos on his homepage before coming and know that even appearing for a few seconds will be remembered by the guests, so they all smile remarkably brightly.
Looking around, Lucas couldn’t help but feel troubled.
"No, no, my aesthetic is influenced by my genes after all. I can’t choose, they all look good."
"Asking that kid Zhao Shun, he’ll definitely roll his eyes at me."
"Is there any way to reconcile this... But he can’t communicate with others, it’s really frustrating."
Thinking back and forth without coming up with a good solution, he only thought of letting the beauties interact with Zhao Shun to experience the charm emanating from that guy.
He didn’t know what was happening to himself; as soon as he thought about matchmaking, he got exceptionally excited, almost wanting to send them into the bridal room today.
"Ah, Julia!"
"Did Zhao Shun show interest in Julia earlier?"
"Julia is from the Warrior Race and has a good relationship with Great Xia, with a natural advantage. I have to think of a way to get them to work together."
Lunchtime is definitely not suitable, the work is already arranged, and acting rashly would attract too much attention from other girls.
At that moment, the familiar engine sound approached from afar.
Lucas instinctively turned around and saw John’s pickup truck reversing, the trunk packed with boxes.
Remembering the plan to make fish with pickled cabbage tomorrow at noon, he brightened up.
"Got it!"
Since fish with pickled cabbage will be made, fish fillets definitely need to be sliced, right?
To slice fish fillets, a demonstration should be held, right?
Nine chefs encircling one table would be crowded, so he went to discuss with Old Lin, letting Old Chen and Zhao Shun demonstrate simultaneously shouldn’t be a problem.
The cleared space can be reserved for the waiters to view the production process up close, as it’s part of their required course, preparing to handle inquiries that might arise from diners at any time.
Thinking this way, the corners of his mouth slowly lifted, revealing a confident gleam in his eyes.
"Let’s do it this way!"
Most foreign girls prefer the confident, charismatic type or, rather, women all over the world have similar tastes.
Foreign girls just express their feelings more skillfully, are more extroverted, and more proactive.
The saying goes that when girls pursue boys, it’s like a layer of gauze; as long as anyone arouses the interest of foreign girls in Zhao Shun, the rest will be easy to handle.
This morning, Zhao Shun already demonstrated the making of chive pockets, leaving a basic impression on everyone, but he felt that wasn’t enough.
The difficulty of chive pockets is too low; anyone can do it, even if it’s a bit ugly.
Only by demonstrating high-difficulty techniques can the gap between chefs be shown!
During the interval between shooting, Lucas strolled in front of various waitresses, supposedly observing their work conditions for Dais, while sneakily capturing some eye-catching shots.
In reality, he was carefully observing these girls’ personalities and styles in dealing with matters, to see which ones would match Zhao Shun’s preferences.
During the fast-paced meal service, time flowed by quietly.
After unloading the goods, John lingered around and even got to eat the Three Fresh Tofu Skin made by Raphael himself.
Although it wasn’t made by Lin Chen and the others, John had no complaints.
The ingredients and taste were all the same, just being able to eat was enough.
"You’ve all worked hard, today’s lunch is wrapped up here!"
After finishing the final batch of goods, Lin Chen cleaned the iron pot and walked back to the food truck, clapping his hands and speaking to the crowd.
"Everyone take one hour off, feel free to move around. Those who are leaving, take off your aprons. I don’t need to say more, right?"
"Yes chef!"
The nine chefs had already finished their prep work and were helping with the making of the three-flavor tofu skin.
With twelve people serving the dishes simultaneously, the speed at which customers lined up couldn’t even keep up with the serving speed.
In the end, there were still many three-flavor tofu skins left, so Lin Chen let everyone divvy it up as their lunchtime meal.
Fortunately, these people weren’t rookies. After finishing their tasks, they cleaned their workstations thoroughly, even polishing the tabletops to a reflective sheen, looking as good as new.
After working continuously for over six hours, though the intensity wasn’t high, everyone appeared a bit tired due to not sleeping well last night. They each found a place to sit or lie down to rest.
Lin Chen made it very clear when recruiting that work hours were definitely more than eight hours, averaging over ten hours per day.
But in return, the rest time is longer than elsewhere, plus the pay is higher, the workload isn’t particularly heavy, so no one has complaints until now.
Especially since the head chef works alongside everyone, there’s even less room for complaints.
While they started resting, Jonathan’s side hadn’t finished lunch service yet, and Helena and Lucinda could only look enviously at the people coming in to drink cola.
Seeing them so pitiful, and with the two responsible for the entire restaurant service, Dais felt a bit sympathetic.
After not doing much, just registering at the entrance, not tired at all, she actively stepped forward to help clear the plates.
With her as the front hall manager leading this initiative, Elsa, an old employee from the same batch, quietly stood up to join.
Following them, Su and Nicole sighed and got up one by one to help.
With them doing this, how could the new waiters sit still?
Suddenly, the restaurant was filled with the figures of beauties, heaps of plates and utensils transported to the kitchen, and the dishwasher constantly spewing rolling steam.
In just half an hour, the aftermath that used to take Helena and Lucinda half a day to clear was completely cleaned, with only a few tables of guests still dining.
"Where are your recruits? When will they arrive?"
Satisfied with her team’s performance, Dais was puzzled why Helena’s team hadn’t recruited anyone yet.
Fortunately, waiters don’t work as long as chefs. Later, they just stand by the side and watch. For now, the workload concentrates mainly on the lunch and midday meals.
That’s why they’re willing to sacrifice rest time to help.
"In the afternoon."
Helena sighed helplessly and joked, "Who interviews at 6 in the morning like you guys, that’s so absurd."
"Should’ve recruited sooner. Look, even Su and Nicole have worked for days now."
While the older staff chatted idly, the newcomers grouped in twos and threes, and those two handsome waiters quickly joined the crowd of women.
After all, as waiters, chatting is part of their job, long since practiced.
Unknowingly, break time ended.
Around half past one, almost two o’clock, all employees gathered again at the empty table in front of the food cart.
Lin Chen grabbed a huge black fish from a box and began to demonstrate a series of scaling, carving, and slicing in front of everyone.
The square knife in his hand seemed cumbersome but was incredibly agile, slicing the entire black fish thigh-length into thin translucent slices effortlessly.
Finishing his demonstration, Old Chen pursed his lips, walked to a nearby table, grabbed another fish without a word, and followed suit.
Lucas, having just recorded Lin Chen’s demonstration of handling the black fish, was delighted and instinctively turned his gaze to Zhao Shun, ready to implement his plan.
But as he turned, he saw Zhao Shun standing still with hands in his pockets.
"Why aren’t you demonstrating?"
"Demonstrating what?" Zhao Shun looked at him, puzzled.
"Slicing fish!"
"Come on!"
Zhao Shun frowned and shrugged, "I’m a dough master, not a chef. I can make all kinds of dough, but it doesn’t mean I know everything a chef does."
"I’ve never learned how to kill fish or handle fish meat. If I could learn just by watching, what’s a teacher for?"
"Huh??"
Lucas was stunned, mouth agape, "You can’t??"
This is completely different from his plan!
"Then stop standing around! Grab a fish and try it. How can you know you’ve learned if you don’t try? You can’t just avoid something unfamiliar forever."
"...Makes sense, I’ll watch the demonstration a few more times."
Finally pulling Zhao Shun’s progress along, Lucas breathed a sigh of relief and instinctively looked towards Lin Chen again.
