The various events happening around the school were naturally unknown to Jiang Yu, as he was still in the small shop's kitchen, busy dealing with various ingredients.
After preparing the filling for the soup dumplings, during a break, he couldn't help but let his curiosity get the better of him and pulled up the virtual panel of the Gourmet System for a glance.
What he saw almost startled him. In the wealth value column, the initial data was "0," but now it had become "1080"!
This means that during the noon time, the store's sales reached 1080 yuan, and this is just one meal out of three!
If he were to operate for three meals a day, wouldn't the daily sales be over three thousand yuan?!
Monthly sales would be nearly a hundred thousand?!
Thinking of this, he was so shocked that his heart skipped a beat.
Once he came back to his senses, Jiang Yu quickly calmed down.
This afternoon was actually a special case. Many people were eating soup dumplings for the first time, finding it novel. Many came with the mindset of trying them out, which is why so many soup dumplings were sold.
Once time passes and everyone gets used to them, for sure not as many soup dumplings will be sold in one meal time.
Remember, a basket of soup dumplings costs 15 yuan, so 1080 yuan means he sold 72 baskets, which is 576 dumplings, already quite a lot!
Some bun shops outside can't even sell 500 dumplings in a whole day.
After all, dumplings are not full meals, and Jiangzhou isn't the North. Even in the North, few people would fill up on dumplings for all three meals a day.
Another thing is, he put in his all today at noon to make dumplings, but he definitely can't keep doing that. Although he is a senior, he still has classes to attend, and there's a graduation thesis to write later. He has to set aside some time.
Moreover, even if he were to actually rely on the shop for a living later, it wouldn't be possible to spend all the time just making dumplings. Such a life would be too boring.
Life is life, and work is work; the two cannot be confused with each other.
Jiang Yu understood this very clearly.
So, after the shop's business returns to normal, if business isn't bad, after deducting various expenses, earning twenty to thirty thousand a month shouldn't be a problem.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yu couldn't help but feel a stir of emotions.
If he could maintain a level of making twenty to thirty thousand a month, then the debts left by his parents' passing wouldn't take long to be fully repaid by him.
Although grandma often comforted him, telling him not to worry about those external debts, that they had nothing to do with him and she'd handle them herself.
But as a son, how could he really stay out of it and leave all the pressure to an old lady to bear?
Once the debts were paid, grandma wouldn't have to work so hard. By then, he could rent a house near the school and bring grandma over to enjoy some peace.
In her lifetime, losing her husband in middle age, then her son in old age, and having to repay her son's debt, her life had been hard enough. It's time she had a proper rest.
Since his father had passed, leaving no way to show filial piety, he'd do the job of taking care of grandma as the grandson.
Having made up his mind, Jiang Yu finally felt a bit at ease.
Once back to his senses, he opened the System Mall again and had a look, discovering a dazzling array of dishes inside.
Not only were there Chinese pastries like buns, dumplings, cakes, and noodles, but also all kinds of stir-fry dishes from Huaxia's eight major cuisines. Even regional specialty dishes outside the eight major cuisines were included, such as Jiangzhou's famous Three Cup Chicken, Four Stars Watch the Moon, and Lotus Blood Duck.
What surprised him even more was there were some dishes that seemed to be lost famous dishes, like Spring Sprout Egg, Songlou Fire Grilled, Blue Fish Braised Lungs. Just hearing the names, one wouldn't even know what kind of dishes they were, not to mention seeing or having tasted them.
The formulas and methods for various stir-fry dishes all required significant wealth points, almost three thousand or more to exchange. Even the simplest home-style stir-fried pork boldly marked "3800" in wealth value.
As for other more complicated dishes, they were even pricier, and Jiang Yu could only covet them now.
After looking around the System Mall, Jiang Yu found that the things exchangeable with 1000 wealth points were some small pastries like steamed buns, flower rolls, and wontons, or some common home-style soups like green vegetable tofu soup and winter melon soup, which required only 800 wealth points to exchange.
After a quick scan of the System Mall, Jiang Yu put away the virtual panel.
Although his current wealth points weren't enough to exchange for the new dishes he wanted, he didn't feel disappointed at all. The shop had just opened, and he hadn't thought of launching new dishes immediately.
Moreover, he was currently the only one in the shop; Hu Zhihai had been temporarily pulled in to help. If new dishes were added, he would be even busier.
So, the matter of launching new dishes should be left for later.
Besides, his wealth points were not enough yet and at least needed some time to accumulate.
Putting these thoughts aside, Jiang Yu was just about to start making dumplings when he turned his head and noticed Hu Zhihai sitting in the corner by the wall, holding his phone and grinning while watching something, whatever it might be.
He couldn't help but remind him, "Zhihai, don't smile so lewdly, if any female classmates come over, you might scare them."
"Huh, what female classmates?"
Hu Zhihai looked up with a puzzled expression, a bit like a monk groping for a bell, and when he saw the playful smile on Jiang Yu's face, he quickly explained,
"I'm not looking at any nonsense, I was just browsing our school's forum, hey, you have no idea, our shop's soup dumplings have gone viral!"
"Viral?"
"Yeah, in the food section of the forum, there are several posts discussing our shop's soup dumplings, with the most followed post having hundreds of replies."
Hu Zhihai said with a smile,
"The poster of that thread is quite talented, vividly describing the process of tasting the soup dumplings, that I almost drooled reading it.
The commenters, who have tasted it, praised it immensely. But then there are students who don't even know a new shop opened, and they think it's an exaggeration technique from literary creation after seeing the post, saying it's boasting, claiming that such delicacies couldn't appear in the canteen.
A student from the North even replied saying the origin of soup dumplings is from the North, and the best ones are definitely in the North, that the poster claimed the canteen's soup dumplings are delicious because they've never had real soup dumplings before.
This reply surprisingly got support from quite a few students from the North.
Both sides are in fierce debate, with back and forth exchanges, it's quite lively."
"And then?"
"And then? Then they bet, come together in the evening to try them."
Hu Zhihai said excitedly,
"To be fair, they decided to randomly select ten students in the reply section for a taste test, and then have an anonymous vote afterward. If at least 3 students find the soup dumplings not delicious, the poster would lose, otherwise, the poster wins."