Daddy's Gourmet Shop

Chapter 615 - 599: How Come I Never Knew I Had Such Influence?

"Boss, then I’ll head back first. I’ll be here promptly at 5 AM tomorrow morning...""Boss, see you tomorrow morning then..."

After signing the contract, the applicants were all very happy but didn’t stay for long. As they left, they all greeted Huang Tao and then went their separate ways.

Old Qian and Hu did the same.

They left, somewhat unwillingly, going with the flow.

Honestly, they didn’t want to go. Honestly, they wanted to stay, to stay and help him make a sumptuous dinner.

Alright, alright!

They admit it.

They wanted to stay by Huang Tao’s side, to observe his culinary skills and learn a thing or two. That was their real reason for wanting to stay.

Of course.

Enjoying an employee dinner in the process was also a pretty good choice.

But Huang Tao had already spoken.

He asked them to leave first and come back to work the next day. They felt it would be inappropriate to insist on staying, lest Huang Tao think they were relying on their status as former head chef and assistant chef of Taste Memory to ignore his instructions and arrangements!

So!

They greeted Huang Tao and then left.

"Alright, see you in the morning."

Huang Tao smiled as he saw these applicants leave.

As soon as the applicants left, Ding Cheng came over with the two designers from that morning.

Before even entering the restaurant, Ding Cheng cheerfully shouted, "Boss Huang..."

Hearing this, Huang Tao poked his head out and immediately saw Ding Cheng, smiling as he said, "Hey, Assistant Ding is here, come in and have a seat."

Seeing the two designers following behind him, he understood and asked, "Are the two designers here because the design renderings of my restaurant are ready?"

"Yes, Boss Huang."

The designer nodded, "We’ve completed the design renderings you requested."

"Really! It’s been less than six hours, and it’s done."

Huang Tao couldn’t help but commend them, "The two of you have a really high work efficiency!"

This praise, however, made the two designers blush.

Honestly, they usually don’t have such high work efficiency!

The speed this time was due to General Manager Jiang.

General Manager Jiang personally called their boss, asking them to make sure they completed Boss Huang’s design renderings first.

And their boss happened to be a loyal customer of Delicious Restaurant.

Upon realizing that the restaurant was Delicious Restaurant, their boss went along with it and gave face to General Manager Jiang,

then issued a strict order to them to have it done by the evening, even asking other groups of designers to cooperate with their work.

The rest of the company’s employees were almost so shocked their jaws dropped.

Though unexpected situations like this have occurred before,

the subjects involved were always high-end hotels with deep pockets. No restaurant of such small scale and with low renovation costs had ever received such treatment!

They would generally only start on these small orders after finishing other big ones they had on hand.

But now.

All the big orders had to be put aside for this one.

This was precisely what left the employees puzzled.

Which restaurant, after all, had the capability to make their major client, General Manager Jiang, personally call their boss to make him prioritize this order?

When they found out it was Delicious Restaurant, they immediately showed an expression of "No wonder".

According to them, General Manager Jiang is a loyal customer of Delicious Restaurant. To eat Huang Boss’s dishes regularly, he even relocated the company headquarters to West City Old Street.

At that time, the new headquarters for General Manager Jiang was also designed and renovated based on their renderings.

In addition, it’s said that General Manager Jiang’s son was so impressed after one meal cooked by Boss Huang that he clamored to become his apprentice. Since Huang Tao didn’t take apprentices, he directly applied for an assistant chef position,

even disregarding his own hotel.

It’s no surprise that General Manager Jiang, out of affection for the place and the people, helped Boss Huang a little.

Furthermore, quite a few in this team of employees were loyal staff of Delicious Restaurant, so they willingly joined in planning and contributing ideas.

Therefore, the renderings were completed earlier than expected.

The designer smiled and said, "Mr. Huang, you give us too much credit. The credit really goes to your connections, as our boss gave you priority to have your restaurant renderings produced first."

Huang Tao: ???

Big connections, as the person involved, how come I wasn’t aware that I have such vast connections?

Moreover, he didn’t even know their boss...

One glance at Ding Cheng and he understood that it was definitely thanks to Ding Cheng.

He cast a grateful look at Ding Cheng and invited them to sit at a table.

The designer took the renderings out of the briefcase and handed them to Huang Tao: "Boss Huang, here’s the rendering. Take a look, and if there are no issues, the construction team can start the renovations tomorrow. If there’s anything that needs changing, let us know."

Huang Tao took the documents and had a look.

It’s a typical modern minimalist style restaurant, with the entire store using black and white as the base tone, giving it a trendy feel.

Once the round archway in the former hotpot restaurant was removed, the entire dining environment became spacious and bright. In the rendering, the outer ceramic tile wall was replaced with a high-end floor-to-ceiling glass window.

The furniture arrangement primarily consists of square dining tables for four, with a few ten-person round tables and six-person tables, maximizing the space utilization of the whole store.

The simple black furniture is understated yet sophisticated, perfectly matching the restaurant’s black and white theme.

Additionally, other design details are quite reasonable, with the positions for the air conditioning and plants labeled clearly.

It allows Huang Tao to worry as little as possible.

Huang Tao looked over the renderings. They didn’t differ much from his vision.

Ding Cheng offered to take a closer look to help review, smiling as he asked, "Boss Huang, may I have a look?"

"Sure!"

Having someone help review it was what Huang Tao fervently desired.

He eagerly handed over the stack of documents to Ding Cheng.

Ding Cheng took the documents and began to carefully examine them.

As the indirect person in charge of Huang Tao’s new restaurant renovation, he naturally had to ensure every step was responsible, not to let Huang Tao down.

After a glance at the pictures, he pointed out a few shortcomings.

After a bit of discussion and some minor adjustments, the construction team could begin.

Huang Tao posed the question he was most concerned about, "How long will the renovation take?"

"About a week," the designer replied.

Ding Cheng, with an "emperor not anxious but eunuch anxious" look, asked, "Can’t it be a bit faster?"

That’s already the fastest pace...

The designer responded with a wry smile, "A week is the fastest pace. All I can say is I’ll try to have the construction team speed up a bit more..."

With the conversation at this point, Ding Cheng couldn’t say much more.

Once settled, Huang Tao transferred the deposit over.

There wasn’t much left for Huang Tao to do next.

The entire renovation process would be supervised by Ding Cheng, while Huang Tao acted as a hands-off manager, focusing on the Old Street store’s affairs to ensure the new employees get up to speed quickly, so they can get to work immediately once the new store opens.