Chef Luo was very dissatisfied with his chubby appearance on camera and kept asking Chen Xin for confirmation: "Honey, does this make me look ugly? Why do people look so distorted when they are on camera? I am not that fat in real life, am I?"
"No, no, you're not fat." Chen Xin responded.
"You weren't even looking at me. You were looking at Tiantian and the handsome guy on the other side!" Chef Luo was jealous.
"How could that be?" Chen Xin guiltily withdrew her gaze from Leo.
Only then did Chef Luo drink today's Chinese medicine with a triumphant look.
Speaking of which, Chef Luo's stomach is really getting better. When he was cooking a spicy dish today, he specially tasted a piece and didn't get diarrhea.
However, the experienced Chinese medicine practitioner also reminded him that his digestive system requires long-term conditioning and maintenance. He shouldn't indulge in excessive eating and drinking just because his condition improves. He still needs to be very careful about his daily diet. However, occasionally enjoying a small amount of less spicy food would be fine. Furthermore, he doesn't need to take Chinese medicine continuously; he can stop after seven days and observe the situation.
Being able to handle a little spiciness is enough for Chef Luo. He can savor his own dishes and identify areas for improvement, which will give him a chance to make further strides! Perhaps he can even take his father's place at the next state banquet.
Thinking of this, Chef Luo silently thanked Ye Tian a thousand times. How could he have such good luck to have such a good apprentice? Old Man Yan was still taking advantage of him. He would regret it one day.
Master Yun and the others had, of course, seen Ye Tian on "MasterChef." Yan Yuanxing and Yan Xi exchanged bewildered glances. Their inability to retain talent was due to their own shortsightedness, their preoccupations, and their inability to accept someone too capable. Old Master Yan, on the other hand, was worried that someone too capable would become too powerful, potentially harming their family. He was indeed being a bit shrewd.
Master Yun was genuinely happy for Ye Tian. He felt he might not achieve much in his lifetime, but Ye Tian's future was limitless. Seeing her success, he felt good that he hadn't held her back.
Many students at Lakeside University also love watching food shows, so of course they saw Ye Tian. At first, they just thought she looked familiar, but then they suddenly remembered: Isn't this the sweet girl who works part-time in the third cafeteria?
When the first episode was aired, the response wasn't particularly strong. But when the second episode aired, the students suddenly realized: maybe the mysterious chef in the third cafeteria is actually Ye Tian!
Before she started working at the Third Canteen, the food there was terrible. Besides the pastry chef, there hadn't been any new chefs hired there. So Ye Tian was the only variable! What did this mean? It meant that all the new dishes in the canteen were made by her!
Didn't you see how beautifully she cut the cabbage, how lifelike the flowers she carved, and how she was responsible for making such an important main course? Look at how nimble and skillful she was when she pan-fried the cod. It was obvious she was no ordinary apprentice. Furthermore, the cod she pan-fried looked extraordinary, it put the ones I'd usually eaten to shame.
Even if I'm not there and can't experience the color, smell and taste up close, just seeing the golden cod strips in front of the computer makes me drool.
Ye Tian became famous in school. More and more students came to the third canteen to eat, just to see her. She simply didn't dare to go out to get food, and hid in the back kitchen.
This is just in real life. On the Internet, her account was also dug out and her vest was stripped away long ago. Moreover, netizens found her through two different channels.
One was that through her modeling videos for Lv Xinyi and their subsequent interactions, I discovered that the chef account cooking in the cafeteria was hers. It just so happened that she had updated a video of her summer vacation in the capital, and the time and place also happened to match.
Another one is even more amazing. Netizens actually figured it out based on Ye Tian's hand shape and movements. They even took screenshots of the video and the game, and just by looking at the arms and hands, they deduced that it was the same person.
Ye Tian didn't expect to be exposed in such a way, and she felt a little creepy. Fortunately, she didn't do anything bad, she just didn't want to show her face, otherwise it would not feel good to be exposed.
Fortunately, the netizens and fans who uncovered her identity were doing so with the intention of finding her, and their motivations were quite good. After finding her, her popularity skyrocketed, with everyone agreeing that she was too low-key.
Ye Tian is good-looking and a great cook. Why doesn't she market herself well? She could definitely become a big internet celebrity, instead of being a small blogger with just over 10,000 followers. Although her followers have rapidly increased to 30,000 and are still rising, there is still a big gap between her and the big Vs with millions of followers.
Since Ye Tian was caught, she decided to go all out. Later, when she recorded a video of herself cooking in the cafeteria, she simply added a shot of her face and used her real voice for the commentary.
She also changed the name of her video account to her real name: Little Chef Ye Tian. She included an introduction to her participation in the Chinese and Foreign Chefs Competition in her profile and proactively posted two videos of the competition. This simple way of attracting traffic has increased her followers by hundreds or even thousands every day.
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In the third cafeteria.
"Which dish was made by Senior Ye Tian today?" The student standing first in line was obviously a freshman. He looked at the dish for a long time and simply asked directly.
Li Bing had his own way of dealing with it. "This shredded potato..."
"Give me a serving of shredded potatoes!" the classmate who came to get the food said immediately.
"This shredded potato was made by me, Chef Ye's apprentice, hahaha! You have to believe that I have inherited the true skills from my master and I am not bad at it." Li Bing smiled after he succeeded.
"I'm not kidding you guys anymore. Chef Xiao Ye is resting today. The dishes are made by Chef Sun and I, and they taste very good." Li Bing said seriously.
Although the students in line were a little disappointed, since they were already there, and the dishes behind the window were all delicious, they chose two or three of their favorites.
“Today’s dishes are delicious too!”
"Yes, the overall quality of the three canteens has improved, and the chefs are getting younger!"
"Then we can all eat in the third cafeteria from now on!"
"OK!"
"I really want to be Ye Tian's friend. Wouldn't that mean I could always have delicious food?"
"There's probably so many people around the school who want to be her friend now that they're lined up in circles. You'd better forget it!"
"oh……"
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Ye Tian’s video account began to receive private messages, including those who wanted to promote her, ask for cooking advice, and become her apprentice. Finally, she even received an invitation to a self-produced variety show from a large video website.
She didn't want to make a living at this time, so she basically turned down all promotions, and only accepted two national brands with low promotion fees. As for participating in variety shows, she was still in school and really didn't have time, so she turned it down directly.
Unexpectedly, the program director kept contacting her and finally found Chef Luo’s partner, who promised to only arrange filming for her during the 17-day National Day holiday so as not to affect her studies.
Chef Luo and Shen Xin jokingly lamented, "My apprentice is going to be famous, why doesn't she ask me to shoot it? I'm her master!"
"She's young, beautiful, and has a great image. If you go, you'll see that she's indeed a chef, but who wants to see you interacting with the young actors and actresses on the show?" Chen Xin deliberately attacked him. "However, even if you're her chef, you can't agree to this for her. It still depends on whether she wants to go. Tiantian isn't the type to seek fame or show off."
"I know. I didn't agree to Lao Cai, but I agreed to ask Tiantian for him." Chef Luo said.
Ye Tian didn't expect that the director had found her master, and that the filming would be done during the seven-day holiday, so she simply agreed.
There is still half a month before the National Day holiday, but the outsourcing plan for the school cafeteria has already come out.
The plan is actually very simple: anyone with the necessary qualifications can contract a canteen, or even multiple canteens. The school canteen's existing buildings and equipment will be provided directly to the operator, and the operator will only need to pay a contract fee of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan per year.
The fees aren't high, but there are a lot of requirements. The main one is that the school must ensure that the cafeteria prices are lower than the market price, so that students can truly be provided with good quality and affordable meals.
Also, the canteen operators will be responsible for future equipment upgrades, water and electricity bills, etc. The tens of thousands of yuan collected by the school is only for subsequent maintenance of the building, etc., and they are not trying to make money from this.
If the existing employees of the canteen want to continue working in the canteen where they are currently working, the contractor must retain them.
The last and last point is that the current chefs in the canteen can enjoy priority contracting rights, which is very beneficial to Li Bing and Ye Tian.
Li Bing also wanted to get Master Sun and Aunt Liu to stay with him, but Aunt Liu had found a job near her home, and Master Sun agreed to work in a friend's store, and it was said that his friend gave him shares.
In the end, in addition to Ye Tian, Li Bing and Master Meng, Xiao Du also stayed, but he did not want to participate in the contracting. He just continued to work in the cafeteria as before, which was equivalent to working for the other three.
Although the contracting fee is not high, with an average of just over 10,000 yuan per person, if the business fails to make money, it's not just a matter of losing 10,000 yuan, but also losing wages. A few thousand yuan a month means tens of thousands of yuan a year.
Xiao Du was really afraid of losing money from opening a shop before, so he decided to just work safely. At least he could have a stable income. This was also the idea of his family, and no one supported him to start a business again.
So, in the end, Ye Tian, Li Bing, and Master Meng jointly contracted the three canteens. The three canteens were neither too large nor too small, and the school's annual contract fee was only 40,000 yuan. Li Bing contributed 16,000 yuan, a 40% stake, while Ye Tian and Master Meng each contributed 12,000 yuan, a 30% stake.
This distribution ratio was determined mainly because the contract was arranged by Li Bing, and he was a flexible person. He was also responsible for the subsequent management of the canteen, procurement of ingredients, etc., so he took the largest share.
Chef Meng is still in charge of Western pastries, Ye Tian is in charge of Chinese dishes, and Xiao Du is in charge of noodles, etc. In addition to management, Li Bing also has to go to the kitchen. He can cook many dishes now and his skills are not bad. He doesn't want to be allowed to cook.
When they officially took over the canteen, Xiaojuan would come over to help. But even with that, the staffing was still tight. Li Bing used his strengths again and hired a cook and a helper from a canteen, finally solving the staffing problem.
Some of the school’s other canteens are contracted out to existing chefs, while others are contracted out to private companies. For example, the second canteen and the faculty and staff canteen are contracted out to a chain company.
By the time the canteen's business was fully handed over, it was already mid-October.
Before this, Ye Tian participated in the recording of the food variety show "Private Restaurant".
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