eurekapd Chapter 144 Fortune Restaurant
Chapter 144 Fortune Restaurant
When Qian Laiye started to clean up the desk, Lin Chuyi used the upgraded version of the "Throwing Stones to Test the Water" skill, locked onto the target area, and closed his eyes.
The next moment, a bird's-eye view of the main streets of Lanzhou city appeared clearly in Lin Chuyi's mind, and she began to carefully observe and memorize the shop composition of each street.
Three minutes later, Lin Chuyi opened her eyes, opened her right hand, and a special charcoal pencil appeared in her palm.
She took a deep breath, stood up from her seat, walked closer to the desk, and began to draw a map on the blank paper Qian Lai had prepared.
After two quarters of an hour, a simplified map of the main city was formed.
Lin Chuyi put down the charcoal pencil, stood up straight, rubbed his sore wrist, and looked at Qian Laiya who was sorting books.
"Old Qian, come over here and mark the specific location of the shop we bought."
"it is good."
Qian Lai also put down the book in his hand, came to Lin Chuyi, looked at the map carefully for a while, then picked up the charcoal pencil that Lin Chuyi had placed aside and began to mark on the drawn map.
Soon, the locations of the twelve shops were marked. Lin Chuyi looked at this simplified hand-drawn map, pondered for a while, and suddenly pointed to the marked restaurant on the main street.
"Why not turn this restaurant into a hot pot restaurant? The restaurant has two floors. The first floor will be the lobby for diners to dine in. As for the second floor, see if it can be turned into private rooms. This will attract diners who require higher privacy."
Qian Lai also gave a positive answer directly, "The second floor can be converted into private rooms. Chen Shundong and I went to investigate before buying this restaurant. The upper and lower floors of this restaurant are both lobbies, and the second floor has no obstructions, so it is relatively easy to convert it."
Qian Lai couldn't help but sigh at this point, "Speaking of which, this restaurant used to have pretty good business, but when we went there that day, the business was terrible. It was dinner time, but there were still only a few tables of guests on the first floor."
"We went to check out the overall situation of the restaurant that day so as to estimate the amount of money we would get from the sale. After observing the situation on the first floor, we planned to go to the second floor to have a look. We said we wanted to have dinner there, but guess what happened? The staff kept making excuses and refused to let us go up."
Lin Chuyi raised his eyebrows, "This restaurant is in a great location, but there is not much business at dinner time. This is unreasonable. They also won't let you go to the second floor. Is there something fishy going on there?"
Qian Lai also curled his lips, "It's not that there's anything fishy, it's just that the second floor is empty, there's nothing else except tables and chairs. The waiter didn't let us go upstairs because business is bad. Customers who come to the store eat on the first floor, so they started to be lazy and didn't clean the second floor, so the tables and chairs on the second floor are all covered in dust."
"Looking at that dining environment, one really has to worry about the quality of the food in their restaurant. However, we went there to learn more about the situation, so we naturally wanted to see the cooking skills of the chefs here, so we ordered a few signature dishes."
"The first two dishes tasted okay, but I don't know if it was due to the ingredients or the chef's cooking skills, but the remaining dishes were either overcooked or undercooked. In order to avoid waste, I ate them anyway, but towards the end, I actually found sand and bugs in them."
"This makes me sick. Anyway, we've already understood everything we need to know. Let's just pay the bill and leave the restaurant."
"The management of this restaurant, the work attitude of its employees, the quality of its ingredients and the level of its chefs are all substandard."
"Hearing what you said, it's understandable that this restaurant's business is bad. But, how could a restaurant that was originally doing well become like this? What happened in between? Have you checked?" Lin Chuyi asked.
Qian Lai also nodded, "Of course I have checked. This restaurant is called Fuyun Restaurant. The original owner was a man named Lin Tiancheng. Lin Tiancheng and his wife Fang Xiuyu started from inheriting a small restaurant passed down from their ancestors. They worked hard step by step to run the restaurant and finally built this Fuyun Restaurant. It can be said that Fuyun Restaurant is the result of the couple's half-life efforts."
"A year ago, Lin Tiancheng died in an accident while purchasing food. Fang Xiuyu couldn't bear the blow and fell ill from then on. In less than half a year, she was gone. Naturally, the Fuyun Restaurant fell into the hands of the couple's only son, Lin Feng."
"Lin Feng is an ignorant, self-righteous young man. After his parents passed away, no one controlled him anymore, and he became more and more reckless. He caused a lot of trouble some time ago and offended a lot of people. He also held all the family property left by his parents, so he was soon targeted by someone with ulterior motives, who led him to become addicted to gambling."
"Lin Feng, who was addicted to gambling, soon lost all the money in his family and even his own residence to pay off his gambling debts. He was left with only the Fuyun Restaurant left by his parents, but he did not repent and continued to stay in the gambling house gambling all day long."
"As a result, within less than half a month, he already owed the gambling house more than 2,000 taels of silver. The people in the gambling house threatened that if he didn't pay back the money within five days, they would chop off his arm. He was afraid that the debt collectors would really beat him, so he decided to sell the Fuyun Restaurant as soon as possible."
"Normally speaking, with the reputation and fame of Rifuyun Restaurant in the past, it would not be a problem for them to sell the food if they wanted to. Unfortunately, Lin Feng did not know how to run the business. He thought the prices of the ingredients he usually bought were too high, so he chose inferior ingredients to save more money."
"The chef in charge of the kitchen couldn't bear to see him destroy the hard work of his old boss, so he tried to persuade him, but Lin Feng got so angry that he quit. However, Lin Feng didn't care about it, and immediately promoted the second-in-command in the kitchen and continued to use cheap ingredients."
"Old customers soon noticed the difference in the dishes. When they found out that the chef had been replaced, they didn't say anything, but they came less often. The business of Fuyun Restaurant gradually declined."
"After a group of diners vomited and had diarrhea after eating, the reputation of Fuyun Restaurant was greatly damaged, and business plummeted. When we went to Fuyun Restaurant, it was already deserted. It is difficult to sell it now."
"It's not that no one wants it, but they just want to lower the price. We knew that Fuyun Restaurant was going to be sold, so there's no reason for us to let it go."
"The Fuyun Restaurant is in a good location, on the main street in the city. It's an independent small building with two floors and a large courtyard at the back. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to buy it without 20,000 taels of silver. But the Fuyun Restaurant has a very bad reputation now, and Lin Feng is in a hurry to sell it. I estimated that 10,000 taels would be enough, but I didn't expect Lin Feng to ask for 30,000 taels."
"So, how much did you pay for this Fuyun Restaurant in the end?" Lin Chuyi asked curiously.