From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Luo Qing hadn't expected her husband to be so supportive.

And it's not just about giving money and providing manpower.

Furthermore, her husband considered many things that she hadn't even thought of.

For example, this children's dining area in front of the kitchen.

Luo Qing had only casually mentioned this design at home.

I think if the children are all on holiday, the children's lunch kitchen might be abandoned?
Could we design a children's dining area in front of the kitchen?
This way, children can also dine at the children's restaurant when they are on holiday.

Feng Zhengming immediately put it into practice.

Feng Zhengming also introduced the design to everyone: "The design here was actually my wife's idea. She really wanted to prepare a place suitable for children to eat in for all the children."

After all, many restaurants tend to have stronger flavors and are geared towards adults.

So my wife thought that maybe we could give the children something they could eat with peace of mind.

At this point, Feng Zhengming took his wife's hand and pushed Luo Qing in front of everyone.

"After my wife became a mother, she was incredibly kind to all children. This time, she wanted to make a safe and reliable children's meal for our daughter and for other children like ours. As her husband, who is a chef, I naturally gave her my full support."

We hope that in the future, this place can become a place where people can confidently bring their children to eat.

All the parents applauded for Luo Qing.

Some of the children's mothers even took the initiative to express their gratitude to Luo Qing.

Luo Qing never expected that her husband would suddenly become the main character in her life.

Seeing the respect everyone showed him at the scene.

Luo Qing glanced at her husband and saw the approving look in his eyes.

She was truly grateful to her husband.

It's amazing how much you can support yourself in the business you're doing.

After the tour, everyone was very satisfied with the children's kitchen and dining area.

Parents are looking forward to the children's kitchen providing lunch for their children in the future.

We look forward to the children having holidays so they can bring them to the restaurant for a meal.

Feng Zhengming was called aside by several people from the city.

"Feng Zhuangyuan, you've really gone all out this time. The design of your restaurant and kitchen has truly exceeded our expectations. You can rest assured that the city will fully support you."

Feng Zhengming: "Thank you for the city's support. We will definitely do a good job here and ensure that every child can enjoy a delicious lunch with peace of mind."

"Haha, Feng Zhuangyuan is really amazing. The kindergartens and primary schools directly under the city should be placing orders with you soon. In the future, other kindergartens and primary schools in the city may also contact you."

Feng Zhengming: "No matter who approaches us, we will do our best to fulfill our existing capabilities."

The city was very satisfied with Feng Zhengming's answer, and they knew that Feng Zhengming was sure to keep his word.

Next, the city officials explained some of the subsequent details to Luo Qing.

Even after the city officials left, the parents still let their children play there for a while.

Many children really like the food here and the play area.

Feng Zhengming also let his daughter play with the older and younger children.

It must be said that even when facing older children who are already in school, Feng Nuanyou still does not back down.

Even though she's a little girl, she can still lead a group of older kids to play together.

This situation has made many parents look at Feng Nuanyou with new respect.

Everyone was truly surprised that a little girl could be so smart.

Once the children had had their fun, the parents gradually took their children away.

Before leaving, almost every parent expressed their gratitude to Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing.

Parents are well aware that with Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing's help, their children will be able to eat more reassuring lunches from now on.

This made the parents truly grateful from the bottom of their hearts.

Feng Zhengming smiled and said, "There's no need for that. We have children of our own, and we do have our own selfish motives too."

Luo Qing echoed her husband: "Yes, we actually want our own child to be able to eat with peace of mind."

These words made the parents laugh; in fact, they felt more at ease after hearing this.

After the parents left one by one, Feng Zhengming, his wife, mother-in-law, and second aunt took their daughter back to the kitchen.

Feng Zhengming looked at everyone who had been busy all day as they came out of the kitchen.

"Thank you all for coming to help. You will be coming in shifts from now on. I hope you can all do a good job of preparing the dishes for the children, just like today. We must take this very seriously."

In addition, those who take turns working here will receive triple pay.

Hearing this, Xia Hui couldn't help but laugh and speak.

"Master, aren't you giving us a little too much?"

Zhang Lei chimed in, "That's right, Uncle-Master, we're here to cook for the children, aren't we?"

Zhu Xu: "That's right, it's our honor to be able to ensure that the children eat well."

Hou Dong: "Master, don't worry. Even if we don't get triple pay, we will still come here to cook every dish well."

Everyone said they didn't need triple pay and would still cook the food well.

Feng Zhengming smiled and said, "I am very happy that everyone has this intention, but the triple salary cannot be changed. After all, you have come all this way, which has also delayed your own business. We can't let you go to all this trouble for nothing."

Luo Qing chimed in, "Yes, yes, we have to listen to your head chef. For the month we work shifts here, we get triple pay."

Since Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing had said so, everyone had no choice but to agree.

The children's lunch kitchen and restaurant opened by Feng Zhuangyuan's wife quickly became famous in Shanghai.

Through word of mouth among the children's parents, more and more parents have made suggestions to kindergartens and schools, hoping to connect with the children's lunch kitchen so that they can deliver lunch to their children.

Soon, Luo Qing received her first batch of food order contracts.

The first batch consisted entirely of catering contracts with directly affiliated kindergartens and primary schools in Shanghai.

In order to ensure that the kitchen could operate normally, Feng Zhengming specially transferred another batch of new people from Shandong.

However, there is still a shortage of manpower just by transferring people from Shandong.

Therefore, following her husband's instructions, Luo Qing also conducted some recruitment in Shanghai.

Although it was Feng Zhuangyuan's wife who was recruiting for the children's lunch kitchen.

However, it still attracted a large number of people to sign up.

However, the staff recruited from Shanghai still need to undergo some training first.

Feng Zhengming simply handed over the training to a group of new chefs and apprentices transferred from all over Shandong.

The head chefs from various restaurants in Shanghai began taking turns to work here as head chefs.

At first, many of the apprentices recruited in Shanghai thought that with Feng Zhengming and the head chefs of his various restaurants in Shanghai taking turns, they would be able to learn a lot in the kitchen.

But they soon discovered that both Feng Zhengming and the chefs on shift had very strict requirements for basic skills and the kitchen staff.

In the eyes of some young people, they can even be described as strict.

Therefore, some of the applicants will eventually leave because they can't handle the hardship.

Feng Zhengming did not stop them; he allowed all those who couldn't endure the hardship and wanted to leave to do so.

The remaining group gradually realized that while the job was tough, it also taught them a lot. Most importantly, the wages at the children's lunch kitchen were quite good.

After the first batch of kindergartens and schools that ordered the meals received their lunches.

The children in kindergartens and schools enjoyed the meals delivered from the kitchen, and when they returned home, they all praised the food to their families.

In the past, many children may not have eaten well at kindergarten and school lunches.

Many children even skip lunch.

But now, skipping lunch is almost unheard of.

All the children loved the meals delivered by the children's lunch kitchen.

It's not just that the food tastes good; the fun plating designs also appeal to children.

For example, Luo Qing specially purchased a batch of unique molds for the kindergarten's meals.

Then when people are dressed up, they all follow the mold.

This makes the food in the lunchbox look very appealing.

This simple plating arrangement has successfully attracted many children.

Luo Qing would personally go to the kitchen almost every day to oversee the process.

In many cases, many kitchen staff felt that Luo Qing was even stricter than Feng Zhuangyuan.

However, those who are willing to stay in the kitchen can probably understand.

After all, these are all foods for children.

If there's anything wrong with it, it could cause problems for the children, and that would be a serious issue.

Feng Zhengming would also remind the head chefs on duty to pay close attention to the daily hygiene and the freshness of all ingredients.

It can be said that Feng Zhengming did arrange everything very well.

With the diligent oversight of his wife, Luo Qing, the children's lunch kitchen's reputation grew increasingly prominent in Shanghai.

This finally caught the attention of some rather unique kindergartens and schools in Shanghai.

Most of these special kindergartens and schools are joint ventures between Chinese and foreign companies.

Bilingual education is practiced in both kindergartens and schools.

Moreover, most of the children there come from relatively wealthy families.

These wealthy parents naturally want their children to be the best in every way.

In the past, these kindergartens and schools hired professional chefs to prepare lunch for the children.

It has always been quite popular with children, and parents are naturally quite satisfied as well.

But now, Feng Zhengming, the top scholar, has personally run the children's lunch kitchen.

Furthermore, he had the head chefs of his various stores take turns working shifts.

This has significantly elevated the status of children's lunch kitchens.

Wealthy families don't always strive for the absolute best, but they insist that their children have the most expensive things in every aspect.

Now it's becoming apparent that the lunches at my own child's kindergarten and school aren't as good as those at public schools.

This has made many parents very dissatisfied.

The parents of these students naturally approached the kindergarten and school.

Their request was simple: they wanted kindergartens and schools to find a better private chef for their children and for the private chef to be permanently based at their kindergartens and schools.

These private kindergartens and schools jointly run by Chinese and foreign entities are also at a loss as to how to address this issue.

It was simply impossible to find a chef of the same caliber as Feng Zhengming to take charge of the cooking, as requested by the students' parents.

Who is Feng Zhengming?
He was the champion of the national cooking competition.

He is the head chef of one of the world's top ten restaurants of the year.

He is now recognized almost globally as one of the world's top chefs.

He is someone who has participated in and hosted numerous state banquets.

Where are private kindergartens and schools going to find a chef of equal skill?

After much effort, these private kindergartens and schools finally chose to contact Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing.

Because the restaurant was quite busy, Feng Zhengming didn't even bother to greet the other person and directly passed the message to his wife.

To Luo Qing's surprise, the other party actually sent several foreigners.

It is said that these foreigners are the heads of several private kindergartens and schools.

They even brought their own translator.

Upon seeing this scene, Luo Qing burst into laughter in anger.

She immediately used a foreign language to intimidate the other party.

"It seems that you all think that I, the woman behind Scholar Feng, am just a little woman who relies on her husband's reputation and only knows how to have children, and I don't even have the right to communicate with you, is that right?"

The foreigners who came to discuss ordering food were stunned to hear Luo Qing speak such fluent foreign languages.

They had actually already done some research.

Knowing that Feng Zhengming could win one of the world's top ten restaurants of the year, it's clear that his foreign language skills are very high.

But they didn't know that Luo Qing also had such a high level of foreign language proficiency.

The key is that Luo Qing is not just able to communicate smoothly with them; her spoken language doesn't even have much of an accent.

He realized that he had underestimated Luo Qing, the woman behind the top scholar Feng.

Several staff members from private kindergartens and schools proactively apologized to Luo Qing.

In the ensuing negotiations, Luo Qing completely took the initiative.

The other party initially wanted to order a custom meal.

In other words, these private kindergartens and schools still want to stand out, so they want to customize their menus instead of using the kitchen's fixed menus.

Luo Qing's attitude was firm: "No matter where you come from, and no matter how wealthy the families of the children you take in are, as long as they are in our country, they can only be treated equally."

We do not offer any individual meal orders; all kindergarten and school meals follow a fixed menu.

If you find this unacceptable, then you are free to choose not to cooperate with us.

Faced with Luo Qing's attitude, those who thought they should be superior before coming here felt that their sense of superiority was completely worthless in Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing's eyes.

Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing didn't take them seriously at all.

Several people haggled with Luo Qing for a long time.

Instead of trying to lower the price, they kept increasing the price for Luo Qing.

They hoped to force Luo Qing to agree by raising the price.

After all, no matter how much they raise the price, the students' parents will have to bear the cost afterwards.

Luo Qing simply smiled slightly in the end.

"There's no need to raise the price any further. To be honest, we don't need your money at all. If you don't want to use our menu, then you can find your own chef to cook for you."

Before the other party could speak again, Luo Qing directly called her assistant in.

"Alright, see them out." (End of Chapter)