The seven-day military training ended quickly, concluding with the conclusion of the mecha competition. Lin Yiran learned a lot, one of which was the importance of improving her own strength, especially while watching the mecha competition, where her desire to improve herself reached its peak.
She also longed to make a name for herself through her own abilities!
Don't call her short-tempered; she genuinely loves fighting and hopes to one day become a member of the Federal Army to contribute to eradicating mutated plants.
She's an expert at dealing with these things.
In response, Han Bing also offered advice, suggesting that Lin Yiran should focus on improving her strength and techniques to raise her physical fitness to the highest level. Only in this way could she pass the test of the Federal Army. He also suggested that if given the opportunity, she should try to join the school team as a logistics soldier, which would be recorded on her resume and would give her priority in military recruitment.
After the military training ended, Lin Yiran returned to the villa and looked at the decorations. For the first time, her desire to buy her own house reached its peak.
But look at the Star Coins in your Star Brain account.
Including this month's earnings, the total is 6 billion star coins. Originally, it was 7 billion, but because she planned to expand the store, she had Lin Fu go to the Eighth Star System to choose a location a long time ago.
They plan to open the third 'Food Flavors' restaurant in the eighth star system.
From site selection to decoration to hiring staff and purchasing ingredients, she spent a total of one billion star coins, which of course included a whole year's rent for the shop.
So she only had six billion left in her account.
It's only enough to buy one flying car, and even that's a low-end one.
A truly high-end flying car, like the one Lin Fei owns, can't be bought for less than 10 billion star coins.
Okay, I still need to focus on making money.
Fortunately, her popularity is sufficient.
The two shops in the Ninth Star System and the one shop in the Eighth Star System, regardless of how much you spend in the shop, are counted as one person's popularity value. Therefore, Lin Yiran's popularity value is currently 400,000.
This was all the popularity points she accumulated while constantly feeding Senran medicine. You have to understand, each drop of the recovery potion she gave Senran cost a thousand popularity points. She used to be heartbroken about it, but now that she had more popularity points, she wasn't so bothered anymore.
Because apart from Senran, she doesn't have any other place to spend her popularity points for the time being.
As for the ingredients and seasonings used in cooking, Lin Yiran found and ground them herself in the Forest of Hope. So there really wasn't anything that could be used to increase her popularity points.
The system is probably in a bad mood lately and doesn't want to talk to her anymore.
It doesn't matter.
Her smart phone beeped. Lin Yiran looked down and saw it was a message from Lin Fu. She had something to ask him and was just about to call him when he called.
Lin Yiran had just finished showering and was sitting on the bed in her pajamas when she answered Lin Fu's call.
Lin Fu immediately reported to Lin Yiran on the revenue of the new store in the Eighth Star System, and the results were not ideal.
"Boss, I've sent the current expenses and profits of the shop in the eighth star system to your star system. As it stands, the profits are far below our expectations, not even half of what we've seen in the ninth star system. After deducting labor and shop costs, we're operating at a loss right now."
"Yesterday, only two hundred people came in, and they spent less than five million star coins. That's only enough for the basic wages of a few chefs and staff. This can't go on."
Lin Yiran listened carefully and asked, "Have you investigated what the reason might be?"
Lin Fu wiped his brow on the other end of the line and said, "I know, and I have made the corresponding changes, but the results are not ideal."
"I've inquired around. People in the Eighth Star System, or rather, the top-tier star systems, value brand reputation. High-end restaurants originating from the First Star System, like 'Zhenyao Pavilion,' 'Delicious Little Chef,' and 'Royal Kitchen,' are popular with them. Even if a restaurant like ours, originating from the Ninth Star System, has delicious food, customers don't really buy into it. They might try it out of curiosity, but they'll never come back."
"Moreover, I've found that customers tend to be very loyal to their chefs. If a famous chef were to perform a culinary show at a small shop, it would be no problem for the day's sales to exceed 100 million."
"So a few days ago I invited Chef Zhang to come and boost the popularity of our store. But after he arrived, Chef Zhang insisted on changing the recipe, saying that what we made was not as good as what he made, and wanted us to change the recipe directly. I disagreed, so the matter did not come to fruition."
"Boss, what do you think? Should we hire another experienced chef to help out? Or do you have any other good ideas to revitalize this shop?"
God knows, Lin Fu has been worried sick lately. His store in the Eighth Star System is not operating well and has even been losing money, which makes him extremely anxious. Knowing that Lin is still in military training, he didn't dare to disturb her. As soon as military training ended, he called her immediately.
Lin Yiran expressed her understanding of this, and comforted him, saying, "It's okay, don't worry. I know about this situation, and I'm currently looking for a solution. I recently heard that the Chef Competition is about to start, so I'm planning to participate. Increasing our brand awareness will also give our store more exposure."
Hearing this, Lin Fu became excited: 'An interstellar culinary competition?'
"That's great!" he said happily. "I've inquired, and all the chefs I've recently hired are outstanding chefs selected from the Chef God Competition, which is why I'm so arrogant."
"If you, boss, get the title of God of Cookery, then our shop can use you as our brand for advertising, and we won't need them anymore!" Lin Fu couldn't contain his joy.
Lin Yiran understood.
That's true. Everyone in the interstellar community loves good food, but it's difficult for the average person to cook it well. In addition, many foods contain violent energy, which makes customers even more hesitant to eat food from ordinary small shops.
This can be considered as indirectly protecting their own lives.
Surely, big hotels and well-known restaurants are much cleaner than roadside wild game, right? You know, these ingredients have all been tested by everyone involved.
They can eat it without worrying about any violent energy. In the eyes of the wealthy, it's completely affordable; they pay more attention to the taste and cleanliness of the dishes.
This resulted in Lin Yiran's shop in the Eighth Star System having very little foot traffic and operating at a loss.
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