I will never give in to Miss Death

As they looked at me in surprise, I asked them to sit down by the window. Then I took the tea from the table and poured two cups of tea in front of them. Then I handed the menu to the boy on my left who looked a little older. "What do you want to eat?"

"Uh……"

The boy on my right obviously hadn't recovered from the shock of my appearance and figure. He asked curiously, "Does your boss employ child labor?"

"Noer is not a child laborer."

I said with a dark face: "I am an adult."

"Oh, sorry."

The boy quickly apologized: "It's mainly because you're so... so cute, and this is my first time in a maid cafe."

“Is there any Coke here?”

The boy who had looked at the menu on the other side raised his head and said, "And this... do you have milk tea?"

"We don't have milk tea or coffee yet, but we still have Coke, Sprite, and these..."

I pointed to the drinks on the right side of the menu with a pen: "We have all of these, and these, fried chicken, kiln chicken, all of them in this area, but no fast food."

"Not bad. I originally thought it was a coffee shop, but there was no coffee. However, there were so many varieties of fried egg tarts."

The boy in front of him looked very happy: "It just so happens that we haven't had breakfast yet. How many maids do you have here?"

I said embarrassedly: "It's just me."

At this time, I saw Ouyang Xue from the kitchen behind me walking towards this side.

"Wow! There's even a service for taking photos with the maids, and it's only one dollar per photo?"

The boy holding the menu just turned it over and noticed the item "1 yuan for taking a photo with the maid, free for taking a photo with the cat": "Can we take a photo with you? You are so cute, little sister."

I nodded, "Sure, but aren't you sure you want to order first?"

"Okay, we want this...what is this called? Steamed chicken with medicinal herbs? What is this?"

I explained carefully: "Steamed chicken, with some medicinal herbs and health-preserving ingredients added, the steamed chicken has a medicinal aroma."

"Then this one, and another box of this..."

The boy pointed at the egg tart called "Meow Meow Cat Paw Egg Tart" on the menu.

Ouyang Xue just walked up to me and asked, "What egg tarts?"

The boy was embarrassed: "Just this egg tart."

Ouyang Xue put her hands on her hips and said, "You can get 20% off if you read this out?"

"Meow meow……"

Hearing that there was a discount, the boy obviously hesitated for a moment, then blushed: "Meow meow cat claw egg tart, I want one of these."

"Okay, Nuoer will give them a 20% discount."

I quickly wrote down the names of the dishes they ordered on a piece of paper.

"Is that all?"

"That's all. There's also a photo with the maid!"

"Thank you, please scan the payment code here."

I gestured to the payment code on the table, tore off the written slip and placed it on the table: "Please wait."

On the way to the kitchen, I could vaguely hear the two boys behind me saying things like, "So cute!", "Yes, yes, the voice is so soft too", "The handwriting is so cute too".

"Store manager."

I went to the kitchen and handed the copy paper to Master Wang. I asked Ouyang Xue who followed me curiously, "Will it leave a bad impression on the guests if we let them say meow or cat paw like we did just now?"

"meeting."

Ouyang Xue nodded: "It will make things difficult for them in the short term."

"Then why..."

"Traffic on the Internet, whether it is red or black, is traffic, and if it is traffic, there is a way to monetize it."

As if she understood what I wanted to ask, Ouyang Xue explained, "It's the same in reality. Do you remember those ads before? Melatonin Melatonin, ads with no nutritional value, they just keep brainwashing you. They keep brainwashing you until you are tired of it. But their advertising effect is very good. Black ads are still black."

"Similar to what we did just now, forcing them to tell us the product name may embarrass customers in the short term, but it will make them remember us more easily than ordinary restaurants. In the future, whenever they see egg tarts or eat chicken, they will think of today's experience of calling meow meow cat claws, and they will think of our store and you, the lovely maid. The more they think about it, the stronger their desire to come back for more consumption will be."

Ouyang Xue acted like a strong woman: "You can also take advantage of this mentality in the future and do more work. As long as others remember you and our store, you will be successful."

"Sister Ouyang..."

The words of this short-haired, well-dressed adult woman in front of me instantly made me "respect her": "Have you ever worked in marketing or advertising before?"

"Do not."

Ouyang Xue shrugged and sighed softly——

“I used to be a Vtuber.”

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No. 088 Cat God million

The way the "medicinal steamed chicken" is made at the Kamikyo Cat Cafe in Minaminagi Ward, Kamihama City gives me the same feeling as steamed buns.

Sprinkle special seasoning on the chicken, soak half of its body in the "medicine", heat and simmer for 15 minutes, then add wolfberry, ginseng, etc. and continue to simmer for a while before serving.

Ouyang Xue said that the most important point of this dish is to let the guests see the wolfberry, ginseng and various medicinal materials in the chicken soup, so when serving the dish, you need to use a small spatula to scoop these things up and pour them on the chicken to make it look good.

A whole chicken, two pairs of disposable gloves and two bowls, with the chicken soup, a by-product of stewing the chicken, poured into the soup bowls, plus the "Meow Meow Cat Claw Egg Tarts" baked by Master Wang. Putting all these things on the plate is quite heavy.

At least I can feel the obvious strain when I hold it with both hands.

This coffee shop is considered a very large restaurant even if it is placed nationwide - a restaurant that can house more than 50 cats on the first floor and still accommodate customers must not be small. It is said that this store was built with the concept of "allowing every customer to interact with at least one cat."

Moreover, perhaps taking into account that cats will shed in the future, they will need a lot of litter boxes, cat climbing frames, cat toys and the like, so the cat living area and the customer dining area are separated. The round mushroom house is divided into two halves by a small guardrail, with the dining area on one side and the cat living area on the other, and in the middle is the counter for taking orders and handling various matters.

"Steamed chicken and egg tarts for both of you!"

I carried the tray back to the two boys' seats, carefully placed the steamed soup and egg tarts on the table, put the gloves in the middle, and pressed them with a small seasoning bottle of chili sauce: "Please enjoy."

“Hey, when was this place built?”

The guy in the baseball cap seemed very interested in me: "How long have you worked here?"

“The coffee shop just opened recently.”

Out of politeness, I smiled at the boy and said, "I just got here these few days too."

"This is so luxurious, but the surroundings are so desolate... Will anyone really come?"

Another boy asked in confusion: "Look, there are two of us customers early in the morning, aren't you going to do anything?"

"Well... because our store hasn't officially opened yet, it's only in the trial operation stage now."

I explained: "The official opening is on May 10th, and there will definitely be activities then."

"May 10th? What day is today?"

The boy took out his phone and looked at it, then said to his companion, "Can we still come over on the 10th?"

"What? Are you a lolita lover?"

The boy took the disposable gloves on the table without even looking up and asked, "Are you attracted to someone else's loli maid?"

"I just want to ask!"

"If you want to come, I can accompany you."

The boy who was talking seemed to be paying full attention to the chicken: "It smells so good, like a medicinal herb. It reminds me of when I was a kid in the countryside... I was crawling with bugs, and my grandma used something similar to this to give me a bath."

"Pfft, pfft, pfft, we're eating, what are you talking about?"

The boy in the hat was unhappy: "It's so early in the morning and it's rare for me to treat you, can't you say something nice?"

"I can't speak, go talk to the maid yourself."

The boy wearing gloves tried to grab a chicken leg, but was burned so much that he pulled his hand back: "Hiss——"

I quickly reminded him, "Be careful of the heat."

"Don't you have that kind of service...to help shred the chicken?"

The boy raised his head and said, "For example, can you ask your maid to help you shred the chicken?"

“There is no such project at the moment.”

I said formally, "But we will consider the suggestion."

“Did you make this egg tart?”

Seeing that the chicken was too hot, the boy opened the box on the side and said, "Wow, eight egg tarts for 60 yuan."

"Be content, those foreign brand egg tarts are only ten yuan each, and this is a new product. And there is such a cute maid serving you, it's not bad."

"Indeed, there is also chicken soup, haha, lots of wolfberries, this is a great tonic..."

"..."

After chatting briefly with the two boys, I returned to the kitchen.

"Here."

Ouyang Xue, who was eating chicken drumsticks and popcorn, pointed to the Orleans roast chicken and egg tarts that had been cut up on the table and said, "Hurry up and eat. The head office said the truck that's carrying the cat has already left and will be here in half an hour."

"Ok."

I took a small chair and sat down, then took the plate of roast chicken.

Just as the two boys said, the Minami Nagi area is very deserted at the moment. If it is not a holiday, the people who come here are basically "cycling buddies" who like to travel around the world by bicycle, or people who take a temporary day off from work and want to wander around.

There aren't many people like this, and even fewer who can see the Mushroom House and come in to spend money, so I really won't be particularly busy before the coffee shop officially opens.

But if it opens...

I can already imagine how big my business will be by then.

The coffee shop is very big, with one side being the cats' territory and the other side being the human area. It is divided into two floors. It is OK during breakfast and in the early afternoon, but at mealtimes, especially from 11am to 2pm and from 4pm to 7pm, the number of people coming to the store is expected to increase exponentially.

If I were the only maid in the store by then, I would definitely be exhausted.

The store is not officially open yet, and the service counter in the middle of the first floor is not open. When customers come, I have to go there to record their orders. If it is open, customers who come into the store can just scan the QR code and place their orders directly. I guess I will have to run back and forth between the kitchen and the dining table.

"There were 30 cats in the first batch, of many breeds, most of them were lazy and didn't like to join in the fun, but we can't rule out the possibility that they would seek out people to interact with if they were interested."

While eating, Ouyang Xue pointed to the small fence separating people and cats on the first floor outside the kitchen and said, "That thing can't confine cats. Now that summer is approaching, the biggest problem in cat cafes is cat hair. Except for the Sphynx cats, Nuoer, remember, no matter where you see cat hair, you must clean it up. And when you have time, go and pluck the hair of those cats, especially long-haired cats, and try not to let them shed in the restaurant area."

"learn."

I nodded. "What is a Sphynx cat?"

"In vernacular, it means a hairless cat."

Ouyang Xue poured some chili powder on the fried chicken in front of her, then handed the bottle to me.

I quickly shook my head to indicate that I couldn't eat anything too spicy.

"I used to dislike spicy food because I read a study saying that chili peppers are bad for the stomach, but the latest scientific research shows that capsaicin can inhibit Helicobacter pylori, fight cancer, and effectively reduce the risk of stomach problems... It's just like Pluto, one day they say it's a planet, and the next day they kick it out."

Ouyang Xue still looked like a big sister: "But it is true that spicy food can refresh you."

I smiled and said, "It seems like Ouyang Xue has been through a lot."

"Indeed... Who hasn't? Nuo'er, you must have experienced a lot, right? I've never seen such a cute and beautiful girl choose to work as a waitress in such a remote place."

After quickly finishing the fried chicken and popcorn chicken with chili in front of her, Ouyang Xue took the boiled water beside her and gulped it down: "A girl like you, if you just do a live broadcast with your face showing and call a little brother a few times every day, I guess you can earn more than doing this."

"Sister Ouyang."

Chef Wang on the other side laughed: "You are probably trying to persuade other young ladies to quit their jobs!"

"She won't. Nuo'er is not the kind of girl who likes to sell her body for quick money. I can see that she works very hard. I also noticed this about her when I was recruiting yesterday."

After saying that, Ouyang Xue stood up and said, "I'll go put up the cat climbing frame and the cat litter box. Nuo'er, when you're done eating, go to the cat area and I'll teach you some basic cat-raising knowledge."

"it is good."

After watching Ouyang Xue walk out of the kitchen, I quickened my eating pace.