Gourmet Style Beast Taming - Chapter 252
Chapter 252: Chapter 252: Plan B
Translator: 549690339
This was just the first round on the first day of the three-day Jumping Fish Banquet.
Many food guests held their tickets, but they didn’t cast their votes immediately.
After all, they couldn’t possibly taste all the delicious food in one morning, and impulsive voting for a favored dish was rare.
Under these circumstances, it was quite an accomplishment for Qin Lang to have received the number of votes he did.
This could be seen from the current second place candidate in the Youth Group, who trailed behind him.
That gentleman only received just over four hundred votes.
In contrast, the current first place in the All-age Group had already received over a thousand votes, drawing attention.
His name was Qiu Longfei, a stranger to Qin Lang.
However, from the discussions of others, Qin Lang learned that Qiu Longfei had participated in many provincial level competitions in Mingjing Province, his best result being second place. He missed out on the championship by just a tiny margin.
Given his track record, it made sense for him to have received this amount of votes.
After all, the cumulative vote count for the All-age Group was the total of the votes for three different dishes.
After the announcement of the rankings, it was time for the allocation and adjustment of the stalls.
Guided by a staff member and amidst envious glances from other Spirit Chefs, Qin Lang and his two little companions pushed their food cart and arrived at their new stall.
It was a stall right next to an entrance.
This meant that one-sixth of the banquet’s guests would see his stall first thing after embarking.
Compared to their previous location, there was undoubtedly a much larger crowd at this stall.
Feeling the envious gazes of the other Spirit Chefs, Qin Lang, who had secured his food cart, stretched his waist and turned to Dan Bao and Spicy, “Prepare for PlanB.”
“Gurgle!”
Understood!
Dan Bao’s yolk-like face was full of fighting spirit. “Chaka!”
Always ready!
After a loud shout, Spicy felt as if he was already on fire!
In Plan B, they would both have to contribute even more effort!
Plan B was a contingency plan Lang formed considering the possibility of customer traffic exceeding serving speed.
Previously, in Plan A, Qin Lang was responsible for cooking the crab powder, serving the crab roe fried rice and weighing the gravy seafood. Meanwhile, Dan Bao was in charge of telekinetically disassembling crabs and washing dishes, while Spicy oversaw accelerating the cooking and counting sales.
The division of labor among the two spirit creatures and Qin Lang was smooth and orderly.
This arrangement was sufficient to handle most situations, even the massive influx of customers in the morning. Although it was busier than their prior practice session, they did not panic.
However, with the increased customer flow at their new location, Plan A seemed insufficient.
In the morning, Qin Lang was already operating at full capacity. If it continued into the afternoon, the customer flow could not be fully leveraged and would instead result in a longer line at their stall.
If the queue got too long, later arriving food guests would likely give up.
In this case, Qin Lang’s stall would be like a fishing net with too large a mesh size, unable to capture the boosted traffic and hence, wasting their advantageous location.
Plan B was a more demanding coordination scheme.
In this plan, Qin Lang would alternate between cooking the crab powder and washing dishes. Serving the crab roe fried rice, weighing the gravy seafood, and disassembling crabs would all fall to Dan Bao, while Spicy would be in charge of cooking acceleration.
This plan was suitable for situations with large customer volume, but the workload for Dan Bao and Spicy would undoubtedly increase.
Dan Bao was no longer washing dishes, but the tasks requiring his attention increased.
Though Spicy was still in charge of cooking acceleration, with the greater customer flow, the frequency of Cooking Acceleration would inevitably increase significantly, also making it more challenging.
“Let’s go!”
Qin Lang raised his palm upturned.
Dan Bao and Spicy each placed their large tails and long ears onto his palm. Together with a simultaneous shout, the two spirits seemed to be injected with a stimulant, reviving them in full spirits.
“We need to be more prepared this afternoon than we were this morning. I’m afraid 500 kilograms of Gravy Seafood might not be enough, let’s prepare 800 kilograms,” Qin Lang said as he jotted it down on his notebook. “Gravy Seafood needs to be prepared in advance, so we can’t slack off during our rest time.” “We also need to ensure an adequate supply of Hairy Crab. It almost sold out this morning. Double the quantity for the afternoon.” After recording this, Qin Lang glanced at the Rice Cooker next to him.
“Having two large capacity Rice Cookers cooking in rotation is still not enough. We need two more. We mustn’t run out of rice.”
“Alright, that’s it.”
He swiftly recorded the needed ingredients and placed his order.
Five minutes later, the ingredients were delivered to the front of the stall, attracting attention as they were piled into small hills.
The ingredients were already stored on the Yueyu Cruise Ship, so gathering them was quick.
The other Spirit Chefs did the same, as soon as they reached their new stalls, they restocked their ingredients as quickly as possible, fearing that they might miss out if they ordered too late.
This scenario, of course, would not actually happen.
The preparation for the Leaping Fish Banquet, which was backed by the power of the entire Mingjing Province, was extremely adequate.
After adjusting, there was a half-hour rest period.
Everyone needed to eat.
Qin Lang used the delivered seafood to make a themed and delicious Seafood Fried Rice, which happily satisfied Dan Bao.
Due to his love for rice, Dan Bao strongly suggested to sell this delicious food at the stall, but Qin Lang declined.
Fried Rice is not like Fried Rice with Crab Powder. It is not suitable to be sold in small portions. A normal portion would be too large, making it unfriendly for stall operation.
The key point is the ingredients are a bit expensive. The cost is not cheaper than Gravy Seafood.
Gravy Seafood can be taken home for the whole family to eat, but not Seafood Fried Rice.
Therefore, eating solo…
is out of the question.
“Qin Lang! My stall was too far from yours this morning, and I couldn’t see what was happening here…” Shen Qian ran energetically to Qin Lang’s stall, her eyes immediately falling on the Seafood Fried Rice in the pot, “What are you eating?”
“Will you have a bowl?”
“Okay.”
After the brief conversation, Shen Qian, looking satisfied, sat next to Qin Lang with a large bowl of Seafood Fried Rice.
It wasn’t long before Zhou Qing and Li Hong also arrived.
Now there were two more people with bowls of rice.
The four of them chatted while eating their Fried Rice.
“Impressive, I didn’t expect you to be so good with seafood.” Shen Qian looked at Qin Lang in surprise as she ate.
On one hand, the bowl of Seafood Fried Rice she was holding was really delicious.
On the other hand, Qin Lang’s position-currently first in the Youth Group, had shocked her.
Shen Qian was living at her grandfather’s house, which was quite far from the hotel where Qin Lang and the others were staying.
Plus, Shen Qian had been busy figuring out her recipes and practicing for the stall in these past few days, so she didn’t know much about what was happening with Qin Lang.
“Actually, there are some tricks to running a stall.” Qin Lang grinned.
Since he and Shen Qian were now friends, he didn’t hide anything and shared all the tips he had gathered.
Shen Qian showed a look of sudden realization after listening.
“So, there’s so much to it. No wonder I only ranked third despite trying so hard.” She had just over 400 points, ranking third in the Youth Group.
“Even though you’ve told me all this, don’t think I will go easy on you. I’m going to overtake you in the afternoon!” The young girl showed her little tiger teeth and waved her arm in a threatening gesture.
“I’m waiting.” Qin Lang was speechless.
Under Plan B, he would let Shen Qian know what cruelty was.
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