Reborn in Japan as a Chef God
Chapter 301 - 300: The Metaphysical Won’t Change the Non-physical, Spending Won’t Change Fate (Part 1)

Chapter 301: Chapter 300: The Metaphysical Won’t Change the Non-physical, Spending Won’t Change Fate (Part 1)

Snap!

Xia Yu casually took off his apron, crumpled it up, and tossed it into a corner of the kitchen before stepping out toward the dining area.

All the outsiders had left. A few Far Moon interns, Liangzi Lina, and he headed to the dining area together.

The place was empty and quiet. Ichise Hui took out the day’s financial report from the front desk and reported to Xia Yu, "Today, we served 90 tables of guests. The average spending per table was 300 Ten Thousand Yen, and the total revenue was 2.7 billion Yen..."

Xia Yu nodded to show he understood.

In fact, he didn’t need Ichise Hui’s statistics as he had received more detailed business data from the system.

Indeed, there were 90 batches of guests. Except for Private Rooms 1 and 2, a total of 10 private rooms on the second and third floors were temporarily equipped with two additional tea tables each, allowing each room to accommodate three tables of guests simultaneously.

From six in the evening until midnight, over six hours, with each batch of guests changing every two hours, the 90 tables of guests were served perfectly, no more, no less.

Moreover, Ichise Hui’s business data did not include the spending from Private Rooms 1 and 2.

For Xia Yu, the actual revenue was 4.7 billion Yen.

Mars alone contributed 1 billion in card transactions.

Qiushan Hong and the Far Moon Commander, Shinohara Shigetaro and Yuchuan Yuriko, these two VIP pairs, each contributed 500 million, totaling 1 billion.

billion Yen is roughly Six Million Soft Sister Coins. When calculated carefully, Xia Yu himself was taken aback. His branch earned up to three million Soft Sister Coins in just one night, which wasn’t an exaggeration to call it a gold mine.

But this was the income from the first day of business, regardless of cost, to attract guests. It essentially overdrew the restaurant’s reputation. Subsequently, there would surely be bad reviews. Xia Yu didn’t need to go online to know how those media reporters mixed among the diners detailed the appallingly poor service of this popular restaurant.

Under normal circumstances, serving a dozen tables in a night like this, with about 1 billion Yen in first-day revenue, should have been grounds to count his blessings.

"Closed for reorganization tomorrow!"

After a brief consideration, Xia Yu made a sweeping decision.

"Closed?"

Ichise Hui, Kobayakawa Ryodan, and Tiqie Helinai were still thrilled with the staggering revenue numbers when, unexpectedly, Xia Yu, the boss and head chef, poured cold water on them.

Calming down, the three interns roughly understood Xia Yu’s thought process.

Continuing this way was certainly not viable.

Even if Xia Yu didn’t care about the IGO restaurant ratings, he had to care about public opinion. Having many critics wasn’t frightening; the fear was if those critics stirred up trouble, completely suppressing positive voices. When everyone believed the restaurant was terrible, leaving only terrible impressions, the restaurant would no longer survive.

"Reopen the day after tomorrow!"

Xia Yu sent a message to An Yilun to work overtime to rush out the VIP reservation website.

An Yilun couldn’t handle it alone, so he could post a reward online to find some temporary IT workers to help. In any case, he needed to have the reservation webpage up by tomorrow so that it could be officially switched to a reservation-based dining system for the VIP restaurant by the day after tomorrow, booking all positions for a month in one go.

There would only be 10 dining seats available daily.

From six in the evening to midnight, guests could sit as long as they wished.

Though such strict control over dining seats drastically reduced restaurant revenue, it was more relaxed. A VIP restaurant should be like this. Chefs had plenty of time to leisurely cook, and they even had chances to chat with guests during intervals between serving dishes, rather than rushing all at once to serve guests like a fast food joint, losing a lot of style.

"Supper! I want supper!"

Kobayakawa Ryodan shouted, staring at him with bright beautiful eyes, her expression as pitiful as a little girl begging for food.

Ichise Hui and Eriina applied pressure to Xia Yu in silence.

"I’m tired!"

Using such a simple excuse, Xia Yu sent Eriina and Kobayakawa Ryodan away, waving his hand with his back to them, "I’ll remember this debt. I’ll make noodles to thank you properly for your efforts on the first day tomorrow!"

Then, he leisurely walked up the stairs alone.

Thump, thump, thump...

Walking unconsciously, Xia Yu connected his mind to the Chef God System.

"You have new task information!"

Beep, there were two unseen messages. As expected, these were notices of his personal task for "Advance to Special Level Candidate," and the completion of the restaurant task "The Grand Opening of the VIP Branch."

"System: Two instances of high-level raffle draw eligibility pending use."

"System: [Pixiu Wood Carving] (Purple) has been added to your backpack, [Quick Memory Pill] has been added to your backpack!"

Besides item rewards, his culinary skill level increased from lv32 to lv33, saving 1 idle Talent Point.

In the character panel, Xia Yu’s rating title appeared as follows:

"Host: Xia Yu

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Overall Physical Fitness: lv30

Culinary Skills Overall: lv33 [IGO Special Level Candidate]

..."

Of course, these things could be ignored in comparison to one particular reward. Xia Yu reminded himself not to be nervous, but his palms still sweated a little, his heart raced unusually fast. Faced with the drawing, no matter how calmly he told himself not to overthink, his thoughts still spiraled wildly, imagining himself winning a god-level talent and dominating with it...

Ahem!

Stop it!

Forcing himself to calm down, Xia Yu stood on the third floor of his branch facing a wall, rubbing his hands vigorously.

"Last time I was just a tiny bit away from drawing a golden talent..."

"This time, with a foundation, surely my luck wouldn’t be too bad, right?" he murmured.

Only two drawing chances.

When it came to single draw versus consecutive draw, Xia Yu found himself torn again.

From a metaphysical perspective, if there were 10 consecutive draws, the chance of pulling a golden talent was definitely greater than a single draw. However, with only two drawing chances, Xia Yu decided to first observe the situation with the wheel.

He lightly tapped on the virtual information panel.

Ripples spread out.

A large wheel with 36 squares appeared on his retina. Xia Yu immediately held his breath, his eyes shining with excitement, "Wow, there are 6 gold-framed squares, a one-in-six chance! That’s high!"

Now the question arose, single draw, or eyes-closed consecutive draw?

His eyebrow twitched a bit.

Xia Yu instantly recalled the thrilling experience of his last draw. Gritting his teeth, to prevent himself from having a brain hemorrhage and dying suddenly, and to fulfill his earlier promise to directly extract results, he made a decision!

"Consecutive draw!"

"Extract results!"

A short, powerful command was sent to the Chef God System in his mind.

Ding. Ding.

After two crisp notification sounds, Xia Yu’s backpack gained two additional items.

Impatiently opening the backpack, he glanced over it.

The first slot surprisingly flashed with blinding golden light!

"Wow!"

"Wow!!"

Xia Yu got excited, his uncontrollable voice echoing on the third floor for a long time.

What was it?

His heart almost stopped beating; he retrieved the item information.