Goodness, this guy's ruthless.
He's just making up a fake letter of introduction; he's trying to find a place to eat for free long-term.
"There were also people impersonating district officials to collect sanitation fees, and education fees, and once there were a few hooligans who impersonated gangsters and came to a restaurant on Qianmen Street to collect some kind of protection fee, but unfortunately, a few police officers from the local police station were eating hot pot there that day, and they didn't hold back and just swept it away."
Li Chu was amused; it's true that there are all sorts of birds in a big forest.
Xu Damao took a sip of water, then remembered something and said, "Brother Chu, the day before yesterday, Qin Huairu went to find He Yuzhu. She didn't dare let Xiao'e and me see her. She was sneaking around. It was a waiter who saw her and told me."
As expected.
"Do you know why she went to see He Yuzhu in the past?"
“I asked Zhu Zi, but he didn’t want to tell me. So I said I was going to tell Chun Mei that he and Qin Huairu were still in contact. Only then did he stammer that he wanted to ask him to open a restaurant together.”
Wow! This time, even Li Chu was somewhat shocked.
He only thought that Qin Huairu would go to He Yuzhu to borrow money, but he didn't expect that the other party had no intention of borrowing money at all, but planned to poach him as well.
"What did Zhu Zi say?"
Xu Damao shook his head with a cold laugh: "Heh~ Although He Yuzhu told me he wouldn't go, I can tell that this kid is tempted."
It's only natural to be tempted. Working for yourself is always better than working for someone else, right?
Li Chu frowned and thought for a while before asking, "So what are you planning to do next? You have to have a backup plan, just like Xiao Dang and Huaihua might leave."
"To be honest, Brother Chu, after my sister-in-law told Xiao'e about it that day, I started thinking about it. But before I could come up with a solution, my mother-in-law had already made the arrangements, and they'll be here in a few days."
"Your mother-in-law? Aunt Lou?" Li Chu vaguely remembered that it seemed that in the original work, Lou Xiao'e's mother's surname was Tan, the Tan of Tan Family Cuisine.
It is precisely because of this that she has a good relationship with He Yuzhu, who is indirectly a successor of the Tan family cuisine.
However, Li Chu's interference in this life changed the fate of the Lou family and Xu Damao early on.
“This time, my mother-in-law not only found a genuine successor of the Tan family cuisine, but also brought along a master chef of Cantonese cuisine and his apprentice.”
"What? You're thinking of opening a restaurant that specializes in Cantonese cuisine?"
"Don't mention it, Brother Chu, I actually have that idea. I plan to wait for the master chef to come over and try it out at the old shop first. If it works out, it's not impossible to open another one."
"You can handle it yourself. I don't know much about this."
He had never eaten Cantonese cuisine in his past or present life, so he didn't know whether it was delicious or not. However, since it was a famous cuisine, it must have its merits and there must be people who liked to eat it.
"If the people Aunt Lou brings come, what are you going to do? Just let He Yuzhu leave?"
Xu Damao was now in a dilemma. After all, He Yuzhu had been with his family for quite some time, and had helped them a lot, whether it was when they contracted the factory canteen or when they opened a restaurant.
Since they haven't asked to leave, he wouldn't feel right if he just kicked them out.
Xu Damao has indeed changed a lot over the years. If it were his old self, he would have told He Yuzhu to leave directly, instead of being so conflicted now.
"Sigh," he sighed after a long while, "Brother Chu, I won't let him leave now, but if he wants to leave on his own, I won't stop him."
As for the person my mother-in-law found, I'll let him work in the shop as well. I believe He Yuzhu understands what that means. If he's sure he won't leave, then I plan to find another place in the west of the city to open another Tan Family Restaurant.
"Actually, there's no need to find a street-front shop to open a Tan Family Restaurant."
"Huh? What do you mean by that, Brother Chu?"
"You know yourself that after all this time, not many people actually order Tan Family Cuisine. It's too expensive and too troublesome. You have to make a reservation in advance. Opening a street-front shop would be too expensive. It would be better to find a detached house with a nice interior, so that customers can feel comfortable while eating there."
For example, if you decorate this courtyard with pavilions, terraces, bridges, and flowing water, what do you think it would feel like for guests to dine there? Limiting it to two or three tables a day, and requiring reservations a week in advance, doesn't that immediately elevate the level of sophistication?
As for your old shop, you can totally convert it into a Cantonese restaurant in the future.
Xu Damao's eyes widened at these words.
You can do this kind of thing at a restaurant?
Will anyone go to eat there? Definitely.
In this era, there are many poor people, but also quite a few rich people; otherwise, his business would have gone out of business long ago.
Nowadays, you can't tell a person is rich just by looking at them, unlike in the future when you can buy any car you want, and a car can almost be a reflection of a person's status.
You can usually tell whether a person is rich or poor just by looking at the car they drive.
Of course, there are also many wealthy people with that kind of perverse taste, worth hundreds of millions, yet driving a small Alto.
Nowadays, there's no such thing as private car ownership. No matter how rich you are, you'll still ride a bicycle or, at most, a motorcycle. Take Xu Damao, for example. If he didn't ride that sidecar motorcycle, who would imagine that he'd be a multi-millionaire now?
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And then there's Guo Xiangyang. Before being scammed, who would have thought that this honest man, who rides a heavy-duty bicycle all day and wears tattered work clothes, could pull out several thousand US dollars from his pocket?
"Brother Chu, that's a great idea!"
He then frowned again: "But where can we find a detached house like this?"
"Just ask some street vendors to help you find out; there's bound to be someone willing to sell."
"You're right, I'll have someone keep an eye on things for me tomorrow. Brother Chu, coming here was the right decision, your idea is fantastic. Looks like I should come over to your house more often in the future."
"By the way, Brother Chu, do you know what a pager is?"
Li Chu looked at Xu Damao with a headache. He couldn't understand why these people could talk so erratically. One minute they were talking about the restaurant, and the next they were talking about something else entirely.
"I know, Shanghai has had it for a long time."
"I heard that we're preparing for it here too, and it should be ready to use by the end of the year."
"So what?" Li Chu couldn't understand why he was talking about this. It was just an electronic dog leash.
"Wouldn't it be much easier to find people after we have that thing?"
"Hehe, it's easier for others to find you now, and you have no reason to hide."
"Uh..." Xu Damao wanted to say that he would give Li Chu one after he got one in Beijing, but he could tell from this that Li Chu was averse to that thing, so he simply stopped talking about it.
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