After taking a short break, Xu Yanxia hurriedly held a small summary meeting with her colleagues in the management team, mainly to review the situation of the first trial operation of the lunch market today.
"Today, the occupancy rate in the hall was 90%, the private rooms were at 70%, and the table turnover rate basically reached 80%."
"The feedback on the dishes from everyone has also been very good. The customers we asked all said that whether it was the new dishes or the previous signature dishes, there were great surprises."
After the two supervisors of the front hall service department finished reporting, Manager Cui immediately expressed, "These are all the results brought to us by Director Xu's tireless efforts these days. Especially this morning, Director Xu deliberately rushed back from Hainan. It's really hard work."
Saying that, he also led everyone to applaud Xu Yanxia.
Although this sounded somewhat flattering, Manager Cui was indeed speaking from the bottom of his heart.
You know, a customer flow like this noon hasn't appeared in Jiushan for at least a year.
Especially since today is a workday.
If this momentum continues, everyone's bonuses and performance will have a great chance to improve!
"This is the result of the hard work of all colleagues together. Today is very important for our Jiushan, and it is only right for me to come back."
Xu Yanxia humbled herself a bit, and then hurriedly summarized the main points. "I just saw the statistics from finance. The turnover of the three-hour lunch market has already been 30% higher than our average daily turnover before the upgrade. And this is when we lowered the prices of most dishes. It shows that our strategies are all correct."
"Next, in addition to maintaining the standard of service and dishes, we must continue to market and build momentum, as well as prepare for the rise in customer flow after the formal opening during the National Day holiday. After all, today is a workday. If this momentum continues, there will be more people during the National Day. We must ensure the customer's experience in all aspects."
"Understood."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Then Supervisor Yang from the marketing department asked her, "By the way, Director Xu, the program you went to Hainan to participate in seems to have a relatively high level of attention on the Internet. Can we combine it to do some promotion?"
"Of course we can."
Xu Yanxia smiled and nodded. "A big original intention of my going to participate in the recording this time was for our promotion."
Saying that, she looked at her phone again and incidentally told the other party, "The official trailer has come out. We can just combine it to do some promotion."
"Okay, okay."
Supervisor Yang immediately took out his phone to search. When he saw the trailer, he nodded repeatedly and said, "Your performance is too professional. At a glance, the other guests are not on the same level as you."
Saying that, he added, "Especially you are very photogenic! These days everyone is praising you for being professional and beautiful in the comment section!"
"Really? Let's take a look too!"
Other colleagues also took out their phones and searched.
When they found the video, they also sighed in succession, "Yes, Director Xu doesn't show any stage fright at all when standing with celebrities. Her performance is too natural!"
"The heat of this trailer is very high! With tens of thousands of comments, if this is made into our commercial, the effect will definitely be very good!"
"Yes, yes!"
Amidst the discussion, a female supervisor from the front hall service department asked Xu Yanxia, "So Mr. Lu also went to visit you on the set yesterday?"
"???"
Xu Yanxia was stunned. Was Lu Jingming on the official trailer?
She hurriedly looked at the other party's phone screen, only to find that what this female supervisor saw were the two photos of her and Lu Jingming at the airport that Lu Jingxi had just sent to the Lu family foodie group.
"???"
What's going on? Neither she nor Lu Jingming are celebrities, so why would others see this???
Seeing that everyone had already looked at the female supervisor's phone screen, she hurriedly said "Ah" and said, "Yes, but you searched wrong. The trailer is on Qiwei Video's official account."
Saying that, she cleared her throat and said, "Everyone just forward the official trailer later. The dinner market is coming soon. Everyone, keep up the good work. That's it. Meeting adjourned."
She got up and hurried back to her office.
And at this time, in distant Hangcheng...
Seeing that another social engagement had ended, Lu Jingming was finally able to return to his hotel room to rest.
He had just taken the time to say a few words in the Lu family foodie group earlier, and then someone came to find him again. It was only now that he had time to look at the messages again.
Clicking on the group chat and scrolling up, he saw the link his sister sent.
Clicking on it and taking a look, he couldn't help but smile at the phone screen for a long time.
But after watching it, he still went to the interface of the work software and sent an email...
[Coordinate with a certain Yin over there, and temporarily do not let private videos of me and Miss Xu appear.]
...
Just like the lunch market, the business situation of Jiushan during the dinner market was still better than expected.
Xu Yanxia stayed in the kitchen for a long time. When she finished her work and returned to the Lu family, it was already close to ten o'clock at night.
She parked the car, and just as she entered the living room, she found that Aunt Zhang was actually waiting for her.
"You're back? You must be exhausted at the store today, right?"
Xu Yanxia hurriedly said, "Auntie, are you waiting for me? I'm sorry I came back too late."
"It doesn't matter. Aren't you also for work?"
Aunt Zhang smiled and asked her, "Are you hungry? I cooked salted bone porridge tonight, and it's still hot."
Before the business in the afternoon, Xu Yanxia had actually eaten a working meal with her colleagues in the store. But hearing Aunt Zhang say this, this porridge must have been specially kept for her. She didn't refuse, so she nodded and said, "Okay, thank you. I'll go get it."
"Let me do it."
Aunt Zhang went to the kitchen with her and helped her serve the porridge.
There were chairs in the kitchen, so Xu Yanxia ate at the island counter.
This porridge was specially cooked in a clay pot. The heat was so sufficient that the salted bones inside had separated from the meat. The salty fragrance permeated the soft and delicate rice grains, making one's stomach very comfortable.
Aunt Zhang sat opposite her and asked, "How is it? Is it okay?"
"Delicious!"
Xu Yanxia smiled and nodded. "What a fragrant porridge. It's so comfortable to drink."
Saying that, she said embarrassedly, "It's just troubling you to specially cook porridge and wait for me so late."
She knew that at this time and with the temperature of this porridge, it must have been specially made for her by Aunt Zhang, and not leftovers from dinner.
"Don't be polite to me. I don't have anything to do either."
Aunt Zhang smiled and said, "Besides, Madam and Young Mr. Lu both told me to take care of you. Especially Young Mr. Lu, he specially asked me to ask if you had dinner. He knows that once Jiushan opens, you will definitely be too busy to take care of yourself."
Xu Yanxia paused and could only say, "Then thank you Madam and Mr. Lu for caring about me when I'm outside."
Aunt Zhang smiled again. "You are a very, very good girl, worthy of them treating you well."
Saying that, she added, "I'm old, don't mind me being wordy."
"No, Auntie."
Xu Yanxia immediately said, "I like listening to you talk very much. You also know that I didn't have a mother since I was a child. My grandparents are a generation older than me after all. You have taught me many things that no one has ever told me before."
Speaking of which, she was someone destined to have very little affinity with her parents.
In her past life, her biological mother died early. Her father, an imperial chef, spent most of his time in the palace. Her nominal mother was a stepmother who was never close to her.
In this life, she ended up with a similar background.
Growing up, she rarely had a female elder like Aunt Zhang, who carefully and quietly taught her the finer details of interacting with others as a girl, starting right from everyday dressing and grooming.
Actually, she understood why Aunt Zhang specifically mentioned Lu Jingming.
She paused, then added, "I have always felt that many things in life are more important than romance. After all, love is hard to hold onto, yet so easily lost."
It was just like her father in her previous life, who married a second wife less than half a year after her mother passed away from illness.
And her parents in this life—though they loved each other deeply at first, after one passed away, the other quickly and resolutely left as well.
Aunt Zhang simply smiled again and said, "But if you manage to hold onto it, perhaps it will stay firmly by your side? There are people in this world who part ways, but there are also those who stay together forever. Take the Chairman and his wife, or your grandparents, for example."
Xu Yanxia nodded. "That is true."
The deep affection between Chairman Lu and Mrs. Lu was obvious to everyone. Married for nearly thirty years, they were still inseparable and always did their best to consider each other's needs.
Her grandparents were indeed the same.
Approaching eighty years old, they had weathered a lifetime of storms together. For as long as she could remember, they had never even had a heated argument.
But just as there are lucky people in this world, there are also unlucky ones.
Who could say which kind she would be?
