Has I fulfilled my father's expectations?

Looking at the customers in his restaurant and the busy and happy staff, the owner couldn't help but ask himself this question.

He looked at the big TV above his head and suddenly felt that time was really fast.

When I first watched this drama, it seemed that he was only in his twenties, but now in the blink of an eye, he is almost fifty.

Before he knew it, he was already halfway through his life, and his dream was not to open a small restaurant, but to become a business tycoon.

This is, of course, his dream in his twenties, and it is also the pride that surged up for a while after he watched this TV series.

But when he took the first step, he found that he couldn't be decisive and clear in the TV series in his life.

is also because he is just an ordinary person, so he has been trapped in this small restaurant for most of his life.

Of course, he also has a lot of opportunities.

More than ten years ago, someone once approached him because of the good reputation of the hotel he operated, and wanted to make a brand with him.

He readily agreed, believing that this was his chance to fulfill his dream of being in his twenties.

He also put all his savings into the work and worked as diligently as a cow and a horse.

But his efforts were finally exchanged for nothing.

It's not because he failed, but because he succeeded.

And it is not a small success, under his hard work, the catering brand he partners with is also famous, but his partner stabbed him in the back after his success.

He privately signed a VAM agreement that the shopkeeper did not understand, and also privately took advantage of the shopkeeper's trust to secretly modify the contract.

is also because of the partner's design, when the store owner thinks he has succeeded, it has become someone else's wedding dress.

Not only that, on the day the matter was exposed, he, who should have been the core figure of the catering brand, was also kicked out by the partner, and after nearly ten years of struggle, he only got hundreds of thousands of loose fees.

When he was in despair, he looked back on the past, and only this small shop was still with him.

He also remembered his father's words, and he realized what he actually wanted.

He wants a lot of people to be able to afford to eat, and he also wants a lot of people like himself to have a safe haven when they are desperate.

And this restaurant is also recognized by people of different ages for this reason.

At this time, most of the people who come to this store are already regular customers, and even if it is the first time to come to this store, looking at the food full of portions and sincerity, it will not be long before they become regular customers.

They even greeted the shopkeeper warmly.

The shopkeeper seems to have a unique charm, he can clearly remember the preferences and occupations of each regular customer.

He will treat every regular customer equally.

This may be the reason why he was able to run a small restaurant into a big brand.

"Long time no see."

The shopkeeper looked at Yang Zheng, who was sitting in the rest area, and took the initiative to say hello.

For this young man named Yang Zheng, the shopkeeper is very familiar.

Although he is not a regular customer in the restaurant, he is a friend of Chef Lao Zhang, and according to Chef Lao Zhang, this friend of his is very remarkable.

Although he is only an amateur chess player, the apprentice he has cultivated is a very famous advertising star recently.

Not only that, but he also said that his friend was particularly good at chess and had beaten artificial intelligence.

And when the shopkeeper heard this, he thought that Lao Zhang was bragging, although he didn't play chess, he also knew how powerful artificial intelligence was.

In the days when he was a brand, he had been in contact with the stir-fry robot and tasted the meals made by the stir-fry robot.

Although the food made by the stir-fry robot has a worse taste than that made by the chef, it is better than many chefs in terms of time and labor cost.

And his partner also said that in the next twenty or thirty years, stir-fry robots will replace most chefs.

For his remarks, the shopkeeper still agreed with it back then.

Because at that time, he gradually figured out some market rules.

One of the market rules is how to open up the market for young people.

As for how to open up, the best and easiest way is to help these young people save "unnecessary" time.

And takeaway, express delivery, online shopping, and some miscellaneous new things, are taking advantage of this to slowly occupy the market of young people.

Not only that, in addition to saving "unnecessary" time, lowering the "aesthetics" of young people is also complementary to the market economy.

Although the taste of the fried rice robot is not very good, as long as the aesthetics of young people are lowered, the general taste and more cost-effective time and money can also be let young people learn to endure.

But since he was deceived, and since he reopened the restaurant, he also feels that the laws of the market he perceive are not correct.

After all, a young man cannot be a young man all his life, he will grow up, he will grow old, and he will choose the rules of life that he should abide by after recognizing these market rules.

The laws of the market are always the market.

But people don't have to step into this "market".

It was precisely because of this experience that the shopkeeper was skeptical of Lao Zhang's words.

But when Lao Zhang angrily took out the video of Yang Zheng's explosion that year, although the owner of the store still had a questioning attitude, he did not refute Lao Zhang's face in person.

For a long time after that, the shopkeeper began to search for information about Yang Zheng.

Among the various search information, many people are convinced that Yang Zheng's chess strength has surpassed that of some artificial intelligence, but more people think that Yang Zheng is cheating.

This also made him curious about what kind of person Yang Zheng was.

And Lao Zhang looked at the shopkeeper who was a little curious, and he told the shopkeeper that he also knew Yang Zheng.

It's a young man who has come to eat a few times.

The shopkeeper also passed Lao Zhang's words and remembered who Yang Zheng was.

While complaining that his beauty is too powerful now, he recalled Yang Zheng's behavior of coming to the restaurant to eat.

For this battle-hardened caterer, some casual behaviors when customers order and eat can often see his character and quality.

As for Yang Zheng's memories, it was difficult for him to remember.

After all, Yang Zheng doesn't talk much, he is very quiet when he eats, and he, like most young people, eats quickly.

He was like a grain of sand that made him unable to remember his features.

However, when it was learned that he might be an amateur chess player who had defeated the AI, his mundane traits fleshed out again.

This also made the shopkeeper have more questions about this young man after saying hello.