Ding Nan and Luo Min acted immediately. After returning home in the afternoon, they ordered meals from three fast food restaurants and even bought identical disposable tableware to replace them, ensuring they wouldn't give themselves away.
The next day at 11:40 a.m.
One of the people in the finance office stretched lazily and casually asked, "Where is everyone planning to eat lunch?"
"The administration department just said they'll provide lunch today. They ordered from three fast food restaurants and asked us to try which two are the best."
"Oh, what a great thing!"
At noon, Ding Nan and Luo Min retrieved the boxed meals from the three households, replaced the tableware, and took them to the finance office.
There are six people in the finance department, and ordering two different meals from each fast food restaurant is just right.
All six boxed meals were opened and placed on the table. Although the tableware was the same, it was easy to tell at a glance that the two meals came from the same fast food restaurant.
The lunchbox on the left is quite ordinary, with a layer of rice and a layer of dishes. The dishes are chopped pork chops with garlic bok choy and a small dollop of dried radish to go with the rice. The soup of the day is just ordinary seaweed and egg drop soup.
The boxed lunch on the right is quite substantial. The hot and sour shredded potatoes are very tangy, the stir-fried green peppers with pork have a good amount of meat, and there's also blanched lettuce to cleanse the stomach. The soup is a simple seaweed and egg drop soup, but this place has a little more seaweed and egg.
When they looked at the boxed lunches in the middle, the finance department staff were immediately stunned. The boxed lunches at this fast-food restaurant were far too lavish!
In the very center is a plate of spicy boiled sliced pork, the aroma alone is enough to make your mouth water; another lunchbox contains stir-fried shredded pork with lettuce and wolf-tooth potatoes, the lettuce is lush and green, and the red oil on the wolf-tooth potatoes is sizzling out, it looks delicious; today's dish is vegetable and tofu soup, the soup bowl is a quarter full of soup, a very generous portion.
"Is this the amount for one boxed lunch?" A person in the finance office pointed to the boxed lunch in the center of the table and asked in a murmur.
“Yes, this is a boxed meal from one of the fast food restaurants.” Luo Min nodded with a proud look on his face.
"How much do these boxed meals cost?"
"Eight yuan for a boxed meal, 0.5 yuan for delivery. If the order exceeds fifty meals, the delivery fee is halved, and if the order exceeds one hundred meals, the delivery fee is waived." Luo Min spoke these words with remarkable fluency, as if she had rehearsed them countless times in her mind.
The head of the finance department almost blurted out that this fast food restaurant had to be one of the last two, but his years of professional experience made him swallow his words.
Let's try it first, just in case it's just for show!
The chopsticks first reached for the boiled sliced pork, which was tender and juicy, with crisp bean sprouts and delicate bamboo shoots; next came the shredded pork with lettuce, the lettuce cooked until soft and crisp, and the shredded pork with a springy yet tender texture; the wolf-tooth potatoes had a crispy exterior and a soft interior; the vegetable and tofu soup was refreshingly sweet...
The man suspected there was something wrong with his sense of taste, and somewhat stubbornly reached for the shredded potatoes in the boxed lunch on the right. They were sour and spicy, not bad; the stir-fried green peppers with meat were also okay; the seaweed and egg drop soup was barely passable.
Finally, I picked up the pork chop from the left-hand lunchbox. What kind of texture is this? Is this pork chop made of flour? It doesn't have the chewy texture that pork should have!
After trying all three boxed meals, it was immediately clear which was better, and everyone voted for the middle and right-hand boxed meals.
Then, everyone in the finance office stared intently at Luo Min and his companion: "Was that fast food restaurant in the middle selected?"
well!
Luo Min suddenly let out a long sigh and said with a sad expression, "The middle store probably won't be selected. They didn't meet our company's requirements."
What does it mean that the requirements were not met?
"Could it be that they can't provide a proper purchase order?"
"Did you find that the hygiene standards were not met during your on-site inspection?"
"..."
The six people in the finance office asked each other in unison why the boxed lunches, which were cheap, plentiful, and delicious, failed to meet the company's requirements. It was unbelievable!
well!
Luo Min sighed again and said slowly, "The ingredients are all purchased from legitimate channels, and the store is very clean... However, their fast food restaurant is privately owned, and the store's funds cannot support monthly payments; they can only accept weekly payments at most."
That reason is reasonable, but also incredibly ridiculous.
"If the company accepts weekly payments, we can eat the boxed meals from this fast food restaurant. Tomorrow it seems to be salt-baked chicken legs and glutinous rice balls, the day after tomorrow it's stuffed three treasures and braised pork, and the day after that it's braised lion's head meatballs..."
Luo Min muttered to himself in a voice loud enough for everyone present to hear. After he finished speaking, he seemed to realize that he had said something wrong, so he quickly covered his mouth and pretended that nothing had happened.
Upon hearing Luo Min's words, everyone in the finance department finally understood Luo Min's true purpose in coming to the finance department to conduct a food tasting.
This is an attempt to give Xu's Fast Food Restaurant preferential treatment!
The company rules dictate that he should have blurted out those words without thinking, but the aroma of the boiled pork slices kept wafting into his nose, making it impossible for him to say them.
While the other two fast food restaurants reached an average level, the middle fast food restaurant was a complete blow to the other two!
If he had a choice, he would also like to have a boxed lunch from the fast food restaurant in the middle of the street for lunch, his throat bobbing up and down.
If it's weekly, it just means going through a few more procedures and having one more task. Why don't you try submitting an application?
Xu's Fast Food Restaurant.
Just one day later, Xu An received a message from Luo Min.
"Hello, Xu's Fast Food Restaurant has been selected as one of the lunchbox suppliers for Elsa Apparel Company. Please arrive at Elsa Apparel Company's Conference Room 101 at 2:30 PM this Friday to sign the contract. An invitation has been sent to your email address; please check your inbox to confirm. Thank you for your cooperation. We wish you a pleasant life and prosperous business."
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