Chapter 104: I Want a Permit
"What is the most crucial point in the birth of a delicacy?" Li Qingming asked, "not in how delicious it is, but in whether it can be enjoyed by everyone." This is the meaning of the existence of a delicacy. However, the Jiangcheng Cuisine Association, because of Jiang Fugui, suppressed me a lot, and when I sold 'Chicken Soup for the Soul', they had already suppressed me, and wanted to use despicable means to take away my Chicken Soup for the Soul. Now, they want to snatch my 'golden fried rice' again. Before, I could only endure in silence and could not refute it. Now, I want to ask them, why is this?" Li Qingming said this, and the person had already walked in front of the Jiangcheng Cuisine Association, condescendingly, and drank coldly, "Please Jiangcheng Cuisine Association, give me Li Qingming an explanation, otherwise I will immediately appeal to Michelin!"
The face of the Jiangcheng Cuisine Association suddenly became wonderful.
They didn't expect that after Li Qingming rectified Jiang Fugui's evil, he would target them again. This is something they didn't expect. In front of so many people, and in front of Michelin. This will put a title on their heads for bribing and stealing other people's food, and their entire Jiangcheng Cuisine Association will be purged.
You know, at the moment the boss above their heads, Michelin is here.
Michelin has two systems. One is the food evaluation system, which is the three people standing at the scene at the moment. They belong to this system, have always been secretive, and never appear in public. Today is one of their rare exceptions.
The other is the chef certification system of the entire federation. Every federal chef certification needs to be recognized by Michelin. Of course, the general chef certification, Michelin is authorized to each city-state's culinary association. But if you want to become an international celebrity chef, you have to go to the Michelin headquarters to get certified.
As for each city-state cuisine association, it is naturally under the jurisdiction of Michelin. However, Michelin generally does not manage the specific affairs of the city-state cuisine associations, and the city-states only need to report to them and get their authorization.
However, in the event of an accident, Michelin is qualified to manage it directly. Of course, the connoisseurs of the Michelin jury are present at the moment, and they have no authority in principle.
However, Michelin also has its own rules, if these connoisseurs find that there is an extremely serious internal problem of the cooking association in the process of appreciation, they can also complain to the headquarters, and if necessary, they can obtain the authorization of the headquarters to obtain temporary jurisdiction to rectify the cooking associations of each city-state.
Of course, this rarely happens. Since the establishment of Michelin, there have only been two incidents, which have been rectified by connoisseurs. Is there going to be a third one today?
"Chef Li, you are slandering us. Before, we only got a report from Jiang Fugui that someone was swindling and providing unclean food to the public, so we went to investigate. As for this incident, may I ask a few Michelin connoisseurs, with Son Masayoshi's solid cooking skills for many years, as well as Jiang Fugui's deception, it is indeed our dereliction of duty that we were deceived, but we are really deceived! We will immediately investigate this incident thoroughly, and we will definitely deal with Chef Li and Jiang Cheng!" The president of the Jiangcheng Cuisine Association sweated profusely and replied straight.
The three connoisseurs nodded slightly. They naturally know that there must be a lot of cats in it, but if everything is too serious, it is not good. Therefore, the Michelin headquarters is also aware of this, so only the purity of the connoisseurs is guaranteed. When appreciating food, they keep a pure heart, so they don't see the light, always silently appreciating, silently giving evaluations.
Li Qingming smiled slightly in his heart. What he wants is not really what the Jiangcheng Cuisine Association wants. Although Li Qingming has not been mixed with officialdom, he has read a lot of officialdom novels, so he naturally understands some of the subtleties in it.
All he has to do is to 'hit Jiang Fugui again' hard, since he has offended Jiang Fugui, he will beat him to death as much as possible. Of course, even so, it just makes Jiang Fugui's reputation even more stinky, and it is impossible to completely kill him. After all, Jiang Fugui is not a person in the food industry.
Therefore, Li Qingming has plan two and plan three.
"Since you admit that you were confused, I now implore the Michelin headquarters to grant me a special license to operate the restaurant. I don't have a chef certificate, although I can easily get a chef certificate, but today's Jiangcheng Cuisine Association makes me unable to trust their fairness, so I hope Michelin can give me this privilege in consideration of Jiangcheng's special situation, so that I can run a restaurant!" Li Qingming only said his true intentions at this moment.
Move away from the mountain of the Gangseong Cuisine Association. As long as he can run a restaurant, then Li Qingming can basically not be a restaurant in the Bird River City Cuisine Association. Although, they can still find trouble in all aspects, but if it is a special business license issued by Michelin, then all aspects will make it difficult for themselves, but they must think carefully.
"Well," the three Michelin connoisseurs frowned.
This is an unprecedented precedent, this business license is two-sided, one is recognized by the Jiangcheng City Government, of course, this is easy to solve, generally only need to register a store, that is fine. The most important thing is to obtain a license to operate in the local city-state. Michelin has this privilege, but it has never granted such a privilege to any chef.
Of course, you don't need to! As a chef, you only need to get a chef qualification certificate and meet the standards before you can apply to open a restaurant. There are few difficulties in this. Even if there are occasional difficulties, but generally speaking, as long as you clear it up a little, you'll be fine.
So, no chef has ever complained to Michelin about this. At this moment, when Li Qingming said it, they were really surprised and tricky. In particular, they are only connoisseurs, not managers who manage this area.
Li Qingming looked sincere, he must be recognized by Michelin.
At this moment, a voice suddenly remembered.
"Chef Li was able to create 'Golden Fried Rice' for us and for our Jiangcheng. Here, on behalf of the Jiangcheng Municipal Government, I would like to express my highest gratitude to Chef Li. At this time, our Jiangcheng City Government specially signed the 'Jiangcheng Business License' for Chef Li. A man about Liu Chang's age walked up to the stage with a business license in his hand.
Li Qingming was slightly stunned.
"Chef Li, I am Jiangcheng Yangtze River Evergreen, and I am very grateful to Chef Li for earning face for all the citizens of Jiangcheng, no, for our fathers and villagers in Jiangcheng. Please allow me once again to express my gratitude to Chef Li, no, Master Li, on behalf of the Jiangcheng City Government and all the people in Jiangcheng!" Mayor Jiang Changqing bowed.
Li Qingming smiled in his heart. The mayor of Jiangcheng finally appeared. According to his and Liu Chang's inference, as long as the Michelin connoisseur can be forced to come forward, then the Jiangcheng city government will definitely come forward.