Chef at the University Canteen-Chapter 318 - 234: With a Banquet This Expensive, How Could It Not Be Delicious?

Chapter 318: Chapter 234: With a Banquet This Expensive, How Could It Not Be Delicious?

First floor of the Seventh Dining Hall, inside a private room.

When there’s no one resting, this room becomes Hua Xiaoling’s "temporary office".

Hua Xiaoling isn’t exactly a formal employee of the Seventh Dining Hall, at most she’s an auxiliary personnel. Her main job is a food exploration live streamer, and helping Jiang Yu manage the "Jiang University Seventh Dining Hall" Douyin account and the restaurant reservation app is just a "hobby".

Who made her fall in love with Jiang Yu’s cooking?

She couldn’t let go, and could only use her professional skills to "earn" herself a meal.

At this moment, Hua Xiaoling was sitting on a chair, her big eyes staring intently at the notebook computer screen in front of her, while her right hand was holding the mouse, clicking on something continuously.

Behind her, Jiang Yu was watching the screen as well, arms crossed, with a focused and serious expression on his face.

"Boss, it’s almost eight o’clock now. At eight o’clock, the reservation system on the app will automatically open."

Hua Xiaoling operated the computer for a while, then stopped, turned her head, and looked at Jiang Yu with a clear voice explaining,

"The time is standard time, according to the time on the computer system."

"Oh, that’s pretty good, much more accurate than manually opening the reservations, and it avoids people complaining that our timing is off."

Jiang Yu nodded, smiling as he said,

"Xiaoling, later you’ll see how long it takes to book all our private rooms for the week if they’re all gone."

"Oh."

Hua Xiaoling responded, but she hadn’t caught her breath before she quickly said again,

"Oh, boss, this week’s private rooms are already fully booked out!"

"What?" Jiang Yu was taken aback.

"I said, this week’s private rooms are already fully booked out!"

Hua Xiaoling turned her head, her big eyes seemed to be glowing, so bright that Jiang Yu was a bit stunned. She said with excitement,

"40 private rooms, gone in 2 seconds!"

"Gone in 2 seconds?"

Jiang Yu was also shocked. Previously, when Yan Tongtong was sitting there taking calls for private room reservations, even if the phone was ringing non-stop, it would take her the whole morning to handle them all.

Unexpectedly, after moving this to the app, it was settled in just 2 seconds?

This speed is incredibly fast!

"Uh, to be accurate, it was a bit over 1 second, not even 2 seconds."

Hua Xiaoling operated the backend management page of the restaurant reservation app, carefully checked the data, and then explained,

"Before eight o’clock, the number of people logging into the app simultaneously suddenly surged to 5000 people, which made the app a bit laggy. Otherwise, I think with just these 40 private rooms, it probably wouldn’t even take 1 second for them to be gone."

"Was the lag very serious?"

"Not that serious, it just lagged a little and then recovered, but it was enough to affect customers ’snatching’ the private rooms."

Hua Xiaoling thought about it, then turned her head to Jiang Yu and asked,

"Boss, should we have Boss Duan optimize the server a bit?"

"I’m not really sure how to handle that, how about you ask him how it should be handled after you’re done here?"

Jiang Yu didn’t blindly instruct, he smiled and said,

"Alright, carry on then, sort out the customer information and the corresponding menu, print them out and give them to me. Thanks, Xiaoling."

After hearing Jiang Yu’s words, Hua Xiaoling couldn’t help but giggle, saying:

"If the boss makes more delicious food, then I definitely won’t feel tired!"

"The way you put it, have I ever let you go hungry before?"

Jiang Yu shook his head with a laugh, and didn’t pay further attention to Hua Xiaoling who was giggling behind the computer. He turned around and opened the door to the private room.

As the door opened, the clamor from the dining hall rushed in like a tidal wave, instantly surrounding Jiang Yu, making him pause for a moment in surprise.

By now, the dining hall had already been open for a while, and it was the time when students were most numerous. The hall was bustling with people, extremely lively.

In recent times, the Seventh Dining Hall had been introducing new breakfast items or dishes almost every few days, making it even more attractive to the students who already loved the food there.

This change also made the other dining halls on Jiang University campus treat it as a major concern, prompting them to optimize their dishes or completely overhaul their menus.

For example, the Fourth Dining Hall has now completely abandoned its Chinese fast-food model, switching to serving Western fast food like fried chicken, fries, bread, and burgers, combined with various sodas and drinks, effectively turning itself into a Western-style dining hall.

And the Fifth Dining Hall, after closing down for business last year, reopened this year under a new owner, also forsaking formal meals and transforming into "Huaxia Food City", focusing on famous snacks from all over Huaxia, like BBQ skewers, fried stinky tofu, cold noodles, and Chinese-style burgers, among others.

This kind of "differentiated" competition is actually a way to avoid the fierce competition among the dining halls.

After all, there are over forty thousand teachers and students in the school, and some of them like fried chicken and fries or BBQ skewers and Chinese-style burgers. Even the regulars of the Seventh Dining Hall would want to switch up their meals sometimes.

With such a transformation, even if other dining halls can’t get the meat, at least they can enjoy the soup.

But regardless of the situation, the various changes in Jiang University’s dining halls are undoubtedly good news for the students.

Who wouldn’t want to enjoy delicious food every day?

After standing in the hall for a moment, Jiang Yu came back to his senses amidst the deafening noise. He took a deep breath and made his way through the crowded dining area, preparing to head up to the second floor.