Soon, Xu Shang found that he had been upgraded.

"Congratulations! Your snack level has increased to 2!"

"You can choose one of the following three options as an upgrade reward!"

Upgrading so quickly?

Xu Shang was overjoyed and immediately looked at the options.

"Option 1: Frying Expert, when you are frying, you can precisely control the oil temperature."

"Option 2: More compounds. When the food you make produces the Maillard reaction, you can control the production of more delicious compounds, permanently increasing the taste by 10%."

"Option 3: Breakfast Master, when you are making breakfast, your efficiency will be permanently increased by 25%."

All three options are very powerful. The first option directly reminded Xu Shang of the Tempura Immortal from Japan, who claimed that he could control the perfect temperature and fry the most delicious tempura.

Unfortunately, this skill is of no use to Xu Shang for the time being, so he simply ruled it out.

The last two options are a bit confusing.

A 25% increase in efficiency is not a small amount at all, and a 10% increase in deliciousness may not seem like much, but it is a level of deliciousness!

Xu Shang made a decision quickly!

Choose the level of deliciousness!

In addition to the system's efficiency improvement, the efficiency will also improve as you become more proficient. There are also opportunities to choose again later. If you are at level 4 or 5, the efficiency improvement may even reach 40% or 50%. Xu Shang has already experienced this in the process of upgrading the herbal farmers.

And it is basically difficult to improve the deliciousness.

Xu Shang asked himself that the skill level that the profession of snack chef brought him was already a peak that was difficult to look up to. If he wanted to improve the deliciousness on this basis, it would be basically impossible to do it with his own ability.

The professional spirit that the job of snack chef brings to him is to always make more delicious food!

If there is delicious food, choose delicious food! If there is no delicious food, choose efficiency!

This is Xu Shang’s reward choice for upgrading this profession!

"Wow! It smells so good!"

"Why is the fragrance so strong all of a sudden?"

Xu Shang had not expected that after he clicked on the reward, the first people to notice it were the customers waiting in line.

Xu Shang didn't know that 10% deliciousness might seem like a small amount, but if the initial value was already very high, such a change would be quite astonishing.

In the market, if the taste of a food item worth 100 yuan improves by 10%, its price may increase by 50% or even double!

The stall, which was already very busy, now began to form long queues.

In the Sanma Town vegetable market, the owner of a noodle shop that was doing quite well frowned in confusion as he looked at the restaurant which was less than half full.

"Why is business so bad today? There aren't even half as many people as usual. Is it because there's no market today... But that doesn't make sense. Even if there's no market, the place is usually full at this time."

He looked outside the door again, and felt that there didn't seem to be that few people here today, which was really strange.

Maybe today is just an accident, and everything will be fine tomorrow.

The noodle shop owner comforted himself in this way.

…

"Sold out, sold out! That's all for today!"

Facing the customers in front of him, Xu Shang chose to surrender.

He discovered that between efficiency and deliciousness, there was another option that he could not ignore, and that was physical strength.

It turns out that making pancakes is such a physical job!

In just one morning, he managed to upgrade from a level 1 snack chef to a level 3. After reaching level 3, faced with the choice between improved efficiency and a permanent slight increase in physical strength, he chose the latter without hesitation.

Without it, I really can’t stand it!

Even so, Xu Shang was still exhausted and said he could not go on. Even Zhang Daniu, who was in charge of collecting money, and Jiang Xiaotiao, who was in charge of finding money, had both lost their temper.

But the people who didn't get to eat the cake were not happy.

"Why? I waited in such a long line, but there's no stock left when it comes to me!"

"That's right! Will you come to set up the stall tomorrow?"

"Today is a special price, will the price go up tomorrow?"

Fortunately, Xu Shang's previous precautionary measures came in handy at this time. He took out the 5-cent discount coupons he had printed out and handed them to the customers who had not eaten the cakes, saying that with this coupon, they could enjoy a 5-cent discount and be given priority in the queue.

Only then did everyone disperse reluctantly. Xu Shang slumped down in the car seat, his hands limp. He even handed the task of driving back to the village to Zhang Daniu, and he and Jiang Xiaotiao got on the tractor back to the village.

Of course it was tiring, but the rewards were also surprising.

Although Xu Shang did not count how many pancakes he had made, he had a rough idea in his mind, probably more than four hundred.

However, the cost of Xu Shang's pancakes is still relatively high. The meat filling alone weighs nearly two taels in one pancake, so onions, scallions, ginger and garlic are added to make the meat filling very full.

But this leads to very high food costs. Pork now costs five yuan per pound, and even if you purchase in large quantities it costs more than four yuan. The cost of the filling for a pancake is almost one yuan.

Add in flour, oil, side dishes and other miscellaneous items, and if a pancake only costs 1.5 yuan, Xu Shang actually only makes a profit of 10 cents or even less.

But the bulk of the profits are not actually here.

Add 50 cents to a sausage and 50 cents to an egg. The wholesale price of chicken legs and sausages is only a little over 10 cents now. If Xu Shang adds one of each, he will have a profit of more than 60 cents.

Today, Xu Shang sold out all his two hundred eggs and more than a hundred sausages.

Xu Shang conservatively estimated that the profit from today's breakfast was close to two hundred yuan.

Because he made a large sum of money from selling medicine, Xu Shang suddenly felt that the money was not much.

If the villagers of Tianya Village knew Xu Shang’s thoughts at this time, they would probably curse at him.

Many villagers in Tianya Village work hard all month, but they don’t even know if they can earn 200 yuan.

Xu Shang also realized this very quickly. Such income must be already very high, not to mention it was an opening promotion. If the price returned to 2 yuan per pancake, his profit today would be at least 400 yuan.

It seems that more medicines are not collected, but in fact, it is much more stable than collecting medicines.

After all, the income from collecting medicine has been decreasing as the difficulty of collecting medicinal materials increases. Xu Shang can actually feel this clearly.

I'm afraid that after a period of time, we will have to stop harvesting medicinal herbs, return them to forests, and give the medicinal herbs a chance to grow again.

After returning to the village, Xu Shang suddenly discovered that there were many villagers waiting to greet him.

Xu Shang was stunned. How come his status in the villagers' hearts became so high just after this trip?

But before Xu Shang could be happy, the villagers excitedly shook Xu Shang's hand and asked:

"Where are the delicious snacks you promised us? You mean to treat us to them for free, right?"

Xu Shang looked at the villagers who looked like hungry chicks, then looked at his own weak hands, and could not help but utter one word:

"Depend on!"