The corner was already occupied, so he took the little girl to find a front seat and sit down.

"Little brother is very young," after Li Yu sat down, a middle-aged man sitting next to him said with a smile, "Are you here to assess the rank today, or are you here to learn experience?"

The middle-aged man is about forty years old, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and looks a little elegant.

"Of course it's an assessment," Li Yu replied politely, the middle-aged man said very tactfully, so Li Yu's first impression of him was not bad, and said, "Isn't it that the ban on meat has been lifted, so I want to try it." ”

After listening to Li Yu's words, the middle-aged man also sighed, "That's right, the lifting of the ban on meat is a big impact on the world's food pattern, and there will be a big change in the chef's rank and dish grade. ”

Li Yu also nodded approvingly, some high-grade dishes cannot be made, a big reason is that the ingredients are restricted, and now that the ban on meat is lifted, the chef world can be said to be surging.

After the middle-aged man sighed, he brought the topic back again: "Speaking of which, little brother, are you planning to open a restaurant?"

"There is this idea. Li Yu nodded, this was the result of two days of thinking about it.

Only when the chef level reaches more than three ranks can he choose a hotel position more freely, not to mention the time required during the period, it is not easy to join the hotel.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, not to mention a small kitchen, there are definitely a lot of intrigues, as long as you enter the hotel, even if you don't cause trouble, things will come up to provoke you.

Even if you have the strength, someone else's sentence 'I'm a decades-old chef' can crush you to death, and if you want to get ahead, you can only wait for the mysterious opportunity.

Seniority, anytime, anywhere, is a very fucked up word.

Compared to working in a hotel, it is more secure to open a store.

Li Yu's positioning of the store is a private restaurant, compared with ordinary restaurants, the price of private dishes is not low, so the customer flow in the store will be relatively small, but the corresponding class will be higher.

With the ability to accumulate raw capital and expand your network and a relatively high degree of freedom, the option of opening a store is significantly better than working in a hotel.

When Li Yu has a wide network and abundant financial resources, it will become much easier to run the hotel by himself or try to catch a line in the next step.

"Young and promising, like me, it took me most of my life to have the courage to open a store. The middle-aged man gave a thumbs up, and the expression on his face was a little embarrassed.

Li Yu smiled embarrassedly and said, "My store hasn't been selected yet, but I have this idea, my name is Li Yu, this is my sister Yiyi, I don't know what to call my eldest brother?"

"My name is Jin Chen, it's okay to call me Lao Jin," the middle-aged man looked at Li Yu quite rightly, and said one more sentence: "I used to teach at Shucheng Normal University and was an associate professor of market economics. ”

Li Yu was really shocked at this time, an associate professor of a normal university, came to assess a chef?

"Hey, hey, I've liked to go into the kitchen since I was a child, and I've always aspired to be a chef," Seeing Li Yu's bewildered expression, Jin Chen was a little proud: "Later, out of family considerations, I finally chose a university lecturer, and I have been a teacher for more than ten years, and the ban on meat has been lifted for almost a year, so I can't help but go to the sea to open a store with my wife." ”

Li Yu gave Jin Chen a thumbs up: "Awesome." ”

Although the little girl couldn't understand what Li Yu and Jin Chen were saying, she also gave a thumbs up in a daze: "Amazing." ”

"Hahaha," Jin Chen was amused by the little girl, and the professor's stereotype couldn't be seen in Jin Chen at all: "Your sister is also quite interesting"

Li Yu stroked the little girl's hair, and was about to talk to Jin Chen a few more words, when a man in formal clothes walked in outside the waiting area, with a megaphone between the man's neckline, and said: "Hello everyone, welcome to participate in the chef assessment, now please line up in a long line, and I will lead you to the assessment venue." ”

Hearing the man's words, the voices present were a little more noisy, and dozens of people tossed and turned for a minute or two before the line was formed.

"Here I will tell you again, a piece of chef's rules," the man pulled the megaphone to his mouth, saw that everyone's expressions were very solemn, and nodded with satisfaction, "After everyone enters the assessment venue, find the assessment position according to the number on the registration text message, and the assessment venue has prepared enough ingredients, what you need to do is to cook a finished dish within the specified time, and then there will be judges to score, and those who pass will be promoted to a chef." ”

Li Yu took out his mobile phone and looked at his brand, 47.

Then the man, led by the man, walked to the third floor of the Kitchen Association Building and stopped in front of a closed door.

The man stepped forward and swiped a card, and with a 'drop' sound, the door automatically opened inward.

It's just a chef's assessment, but it's so formal, Li Yu complained silently.

It was a large room, nearly sixty meters long and wide, and the room was divided into several areas.

Among them, the largest area is a cooking area composed of sixty or seventy stoves, accounting for about half of the room area, each stove is roughly estimated to be two meters long and wide, and the distance between the two is more than three meters, and the various types of kitchen utensils on the stove are very complete.

Next to the cooking area is the area where the ingredients are placed, and there are dozens of common ingredients in several large crispers, ranging from meat to vegetarian.

On the right side of the food section is the judges' seats.

There are only seven professional judges, each of whom is responsible for the scoring of ten examiners, and because it is a rating, the judges do not cross-evaluate - that is, each chef's dish is tasted by only one judge, who has a veto.

Most of the business judges are relevant people in the industry, such as reporters from newspapers and television stations, well-known self-media bloggers, etc., although these people have the name of a judge, they have no say in the selection, and are mainly responsible for news records and ...... Rub and eat.

Under the guidance of the staff, everyone went to their respective assessment points, and the assessment requirements were not too strict, so the little girl also followed Li Yu to the stove.

Jin Chen's stove position was about fifteen meters in front of Li Yu's right, and when he saw Li Yu looking at himself, Jin Chen also nodded and made a "come on" mouth shape.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have twenty minutes to pick the ingredients, and twenty minutes later the cooking timer will begin. As the leader man's words fell, the seventy assessors present all left the stove and walked to the food area.

Telling the little girl not to touch the kitchenware, Li Yu walked forward quickly.