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A few minutes later, she picked up her little leather shoes from the balcony, and followed Chiba Shuichi downstairs.
When I returned to the ramen restaurant, I saw Akiyama An already coming down rubbing her sleepy eyes - she had clearly already washed up, but she still looked sleepy and groggy.
She first sniffed the aroma of the food like a puppy, then looked at the two people at the door suspiciously, "Sister, why did you come back from outside? I didn't seem to see you come downstairs?"
Qiu Shanyue was shocked. How could he have forgotten this? He did the same thing yesterday and didn't even notice the loophole!
"This one……"
"The meal is ready~ Xingjiang, eat quickly, or you will be late for school." At the critical moment, Mrs. Akiyama brought breakfast and interrupted her little daughter's thoughts.
"Wow~ I'm going to eat~" Akiyama An immediately put her sister's affairs behind her, climbed onto the bar chair and started to feast on the food.
“……” Qiu Shanyue breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, her silly sister had a bad memory.
Chiba Shuichi quietly pinched her little butt and said, "Let's eat first."
After he sat down, he thanked Mrs. Akiyama and asked, "Are there any problems in the ramen shop that are difficult to solve? If so, please tell me anytime. I will
I will try my best to help solve it.”
Ever since the ramen shop opened, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had blamed the system wrongly.
Originally the system was talking about excellent shop owners, and never emphasized that they had to be female shop owners. Most of the time, male shop owners with outstanding looks would also be acceptable.
It's just that he hasn't met it yet.
But... well, if I meet one, I don't really want to recruit him. It always feels weird.
But since male shop owners can also be qualified, maybe it’s not just outstanding appearance that meets the requirements, outstanding abilities should also be acceptable?
In this case, the improvement of the sense of belonging to the shopping street should obviously be done in a more universal way - that is, using the 100,000 yen universal butler to solve problems for more excellent store owners.
The way he treated the two Mrs. Ogawas was clearly... well, a little unorthodox.
After self-reflection, Chiba Shuichi felt that the problem was still with the system. Couldn't he explain it more clearly? Was he trying to make people misunderstand him?
It is obviously harder to meet a male shop owner with outstanding looks or talent. Isn't this purely deliberate misleading?
Mrs. Akiyama tilted her head and thought for a moment, then sighed, "It really is a big problem."
"What's the problem?" Chiba Shuichi immediately became excited. This was a good opportunity to verify his guess.
"Business is so good. There are many more customers than before. I'm so tired..." Mrs. Akiyama said with a gloomy face, rubbing her sore arm.
"..." Chiba Shuichi was speechless after hearing that. Are you still complaining about business being too good?
Okay, it is indeed a bit difficult. After all, Mrs. Akiyama is the only one busy in the store during the day, and the class monitor and the president can only come back to help after school.
"Things like this..." Before Chiba Xiu could speak, Akiyama Yue looked at his mother with a serious expression.
Mrs. Akiyama suddenly shuddered, "Okay, I won't complain anymore, okay? Yue-chan, please stop nagging like your mother-in-law, okay?"
"..." Qiu Shanyue rolled his eyes at her speechlessly, "I mean, if mom really feels it's too hard, why not just limit it every day."
Chiba Xiuyi was speechless and pinched her thigh unhappily. "Can't you let me speak first? I was just trying to verify it."
“Hmm…” Qiu Shanyue suddenly softened, lowered his head and covered his mouth, and said no more.
Chiba Shuichi calmly took back the initiative in the conversation, "Madam, why don't you estimate how many servings of ramen you can make every day without being too hard, and then sell them while they're sold out.
Alternatively, you can consider buying ready-made ramen noodles or using a ramen machine so that you only need to prepare the soup base every day.”
Mrs. Akiyama shrank her neck when she heard this and said sneakily, "If my mother-in-law finds out that I dare to use the ramen machine, she will beat me to death!"
"But if the taste doesn't decrease, she won't be able to say anything, right?" Chiba Xiuyi smiled.
Mrs. Akiyama was obviously very tempted, but after hesitating again and again, she still didn't dare to do it, "Forget it, forget it, it's better to be tired than to be scolded by my mother-in-law.
Besides, limited edition or something like that is not a good idea either. Yue-chan still has to take the college entrance exam, and the cost of the private school next year will be even higher..."
Chiba Shuichi pondered for a moment, then suggested, "Then... handmade ramen is limited in quantity, but machine ramen is unlimited? As for the soup, the degree of fatigue should be about the same no matter how many servings you make, right?"
"Huh? This is good!" Mrs. Akiyama's eyes suddenly lit up, and she felt that she didn't have to work so hard anymore.
"That's fine, and it's more eye-catching. We'll limit the number of handmade ramen to 100, and provide them twice a day at noon and in the evening, on a first-come, first-served basis.
As for the ramen machine, it is not cost-effective for our small shop to use it. It is better to go directly to the noodle factory to purchase ready-made ramen, but this kind of ramen must be cheaper. "
After Akiyama Tsuki recovered, she started to analyze seriously again, which made Chiba Shuichi hit her hard on the butt again.
"One hundred copies is also very tiring..." Mrs. Akiyama muttered softly.
"The store is so small, fifty copies would be enough," Chiba Shuichi suggested.
"That's too much. The champion ramen restaurant in Shibuya district only produces 60 servings a day." Akiyama Tsuki stubbornly got up again.
Chiba Shuichi: "..."
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Chapter 68 Main Quest Updated
"What is the 100 Famous Ramen Shop?" Chiba Shuichi gave up on interrupting with dirty tricks and asked curiously.
Akiyama Tsuki gave him a strange look and said, "It's the 100 best ramen restaurants in Tokyo selected by TABELOG? You've never used TABELOG?"
After hearing this, Chiba Shuichi finally remembered what it was. TABELOG is equivalent to Dianping.com.
But it's not that he, an outsider, lacks common sense. His previous life basically didn't use this thing. He just made do with every meal, usually grabbing the half-price bento from the supermarket in the evening.
"Then can your ramen restaurant go up there?" Chiba Shuichi asked.
"How is that possible?" Qiu Shanyue was a little speechless. "Our small shop is far behind the last 100 shops in terms of scale, environment, and reputation."
“But the taste is not worse than the so-called champion, right?” Chiba Shuichi said this and then realized that he had forgotten to eat. He quickly drank two more sips of soup and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"I don't know. I don't have any spare money to eat." Qiu Shanyue also lowered his head and started eating his noodles.
Mrs. Akiyama just sat opposite, eating and watching the two children discuss business with a smile on her face.
"Then I'll treat you to a meal later. If the taste is better than theirs, I'll try to compete for the title of Tokyo's Top 100 Ramen Shops."
As soon as Chiba Shuichi finished speaking, Akiyama Xing, who had been eating hard, immediately grasped the key words. Her little ears moved, and she quickly swallowed the food in her mouth and raised her hand.
"I want to eat too!"
"Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat. You're never so energetic when you're studying." Qiu Shanyue grabbed her sister's ear in annoyance.
While busy teaching his sister a lesson, he turned to Chiba Xiu and said, "Chiba, aren't you thinking things are too simple? Just because it tastes the best doesn't mean you can get to the top."
Chiba Shuichi touched her head with amusement and ruffled her hair. "You mean TABELOG might not be so fair? But this kind of thing may not be a problem for me."
"I almost forgot that you are a real young master." Qiu Shanyue suddenly remembered that the guy in front of him was very rich and not a commoner like himself.
I played the game of young master and maid so much in private that I even forgot that I was pretending to be a maid, but the other party was not pretending to be a young master!
However, Akiyama Tsuki was obviously not used to Chiba Shuichi's actions and attitude, and slapped his hands aside.
I would rather he do something abnormal than look down on others like this.
Well, a hard spanking is fine, but a gentle pat on the head is not.
"It's not just this point. The environment, service, popularity and so on are also included in the selection range. We can't compare with them in these aspects."
“Aim for the best and achieve the best. No matter if you can achieve it or not, you must have the heart to win the championship first.”
Chiba Shuichi thought to himself, if the ramen restaurant can win the championship, the system evaluation should be good, right? Is it one step closer to passing the assessment and truly taking over the shopping street?
"Although what you said makes sense and is very beautiful, but look at it..." Qiu Shanyue raised his chin towards his old mother across from him, "Do you think my mother looks like she wants to win the championship?"
Mrs. Akiyama was dissatisfied when she heard this.
Puffing up her cheeks, "Yue-chan, don't underestimate your mother. She's also very capable."
Akiyama Tsuki sneered, "Well, then, correct the problems that Grandma Kizaki mentioned, and we will help you plan to win the championship. With the help of Chiba, at least fairness should be no problem."
"This..." Mrs. Akiyama's eyes suddenly wandered, "The store has just opened, isn't it a bit too far-fetched to think about these things? How about we talk about it later?"
"Did you see it?" Akiyama Tsuki sighed and said to Chiba Shuichi.
"..."
Chiba Shuichi felt that he was overthinking it. It was obvious that Mrs. Akiyama was a lazy person. It was really foolish to expect her to become the Queen of Tokyo Ramen.
"But if I win, Grandma Kizaki will be very happy, right?" Akiyama An finished her last sip of soup, put down the bowl and said, "Grandma also said the other day that she hoped my mother could slap someone in the face."
Mrs. Akiyama immediately shrank her neck, trying to reduce her presence. She really had no interest in getting slapped in the face or anything like that. It was too tiring.
Chiba Xiuyi smiled when he saw this, "Mrs. Akiyama is already amazing. She was able to raise the class monitor and the president, and educate them so well. She is definitely better than more than 90% of the mothers in Japan. There is no reason to ask for more."
Mrs. Akiyama immediately became confident again after hearing this. "That's right, mom, I also work very hard. I am definitely not lazy."
"..."
Qiu Shanyue had no doubts about this, but her mother's personality was really...
"Ugh……"
"Yue-chan, you sighed." Mrs. Akiyama put her hands on her hips, "Mom is so sad. Is what Chiba-kun said wrong? Mom is obviously very capable."
"No, he's right. Mom is really great. I just sighed because I'm tired..." Akiyama Yue lowered his head to eat.
"So...are we still going to eat Champion Ramen?" Akiyama An asked blankly, biting her chopsticks.
Akiyama Tsuki: ...
"Go ahead. When I'm free someday, I'll take you to try it and see what it tastes like." Chiba Shuichi promised with a smile.
Regardless of whether Mrs. Akiyama is willing to win the championship, he plans to take the two of them there to confirm the current level of the taste of the Akiyama Ramen restaurant.
The food he eats is all 600% added, and he has no idea how it tastes to ordinary people.
"Great~~~" Akiyama An was very excited.
"Really? Xingjiang is a traitor. Is the food mom cooks not as good as what’s available outside? It’s obviously better than that of mother-in-law." Mrs. Akiyama grumbled in dissatisfaction.
"No matter how delicious the food is, I'd still like to try something new. After all, I've been eating my mother's cooking for more than ten years..." Akiyama An also sighed, which was rare.
"I'm so sad. Both of my daughters are so uncaring." Mrs. Akiyama said angrily.
……