Chapter 353 Invisible Pretense
When Chen Yan bought this hotel, he just regarded it as a bonus.
But after learning from Mr. Dong about the comprehensive facilities and rich dining options of this hotel, he began to think: I worked hard (went to the store to buy a cashback card) to buy this hotel (but with cashback), do I really think I am here to make money?
No. I do it for my own enjoyment, of course!
Therefore, after driving away those disobedient management, when Chen Yan arranged the new team, he asked them to reserve a private room or seat for themselves in every restaurant and every hotel facility.
He even requested that the hotel's presidential suite remain vacant so that he could move in at any time or arrange for friends to stay there.
So, seeing that there were no seats left, Chen Yan couldn't help but take out his cell phone and prepare to call the general manager of the hotel to ask him to arrange for the restaurant staff to take him to the exclusive seat.
As a result, before Chen Yan could dial the number, a waiter suddenly came over and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner, "Hello, sir, madam. Our restaurant is full and there is no room left."
"If you want to wait for a table, expect to wait about 20 minutes."
“So I suggest you take a break here, or go to one of our other restaurants.”
After hearing what he said, Chen Yan couldn't help but ask, "Is your business so booming every day?"
The waiter smiled and said, "It's okay. Mainly because we recently got a new boss."
“The new owner reorganized the entire hotel and hired a group of good chefs from various places.”
"In our six restaurants, you can taste food from different countries and cities , and it's delicious. With word of mouth, many people come here to try it."
After listening to this, Chen Yan nodded slightly. Although most of these were done by the new team, they were recruited by themselves, so rounding it off, it can also be considered as done by themselves!
Chen Yan doesn't feel ashamed to be praised by his own employees!
Just as Chen Yan was thinking this, the elevator that Chen Yan had just gotten off stopped on the third floor again.
A man and a woman got off the elevator.
The couple were well-dressed, the man in a suit and the woman in fancy clothes. It was obvious that they had good taste and were wealthy.
Seeing the new customer coming up, the waiter nodded politely to Chen Yan, "Sorry, I have to excuse myself for a moment," and then went to serve him.
Coming in front of the couple, the waiter gently repeated what he had just said to Chen Yan.
Chen Yan watched silently for a while, but Yu Qiaoqiao reminded him quietly, "Chen Yan...should we go to another restaurant? We have to wait for a table here..."
After hearing Yu Qiaoqiao's words, Chen Yan came back to his senses, and then he said with a smile, "Of course we have to eat here. Don't worry, I have a way."
As he spoke, he made a phone call under Yu Qiaoqiao's puzzled gaze.
“Beep…beep…beep…”
After a while, the call was connected. A middle-aged woman's voice sounded on the other end of the line, "Mr. Chen, are you looking for me?"
Chen Yan smiled and said, "Sister Wang, I'm here to eat at our hotel. It's in the western restaurant on the third floor. Is the seat reserved for me still there?"
After hearing what Chen Yan said, the middle-aged woman said, "Yes. Please wait a moment. I will call the restaurant first and ask them to take you in. Then I will be down right away."
Chen Yan said, "No need. Let them arrange it. Just be busy. It's not a big deal, just a meal."
After that, the two chatted for a few more words and then hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Yan smiled at Yu Qiaoqiao and said, "It's arranged."
Yu Qiaoqiao looked at Chen Yan cutely, nodded, and said nothing.
In her mind, if Chen Yan said it was arranged, it was arranged and there wouldn't be any problems.
At this time, the waiter also came back from the two new customers.
Chen Yan glanced around, yawned, and waited for someone to pick him up.
At this time, the two well-dressed customers looked at Chen Yan and Yu Qiaoqiao. They whispered to each other in a voice that only they could hear.
The flashy woman whispered, "Look at them. They come to such a high-end restaurant, but they are dressed so... well, plain. Don't you think they are too casual?"
The man in a suit smiled and whispered, "Don't talk about them behind their backs. They may have come in a hurry, not like us who have a sense of ceremony."
The woman glanced at the man, her eyes full of sweetness and love.
Life needs a sense of ritual. When you go to a high-end restaurant, you should wear gorgeous clothes and a bouquet of flowers.
While the two were talking in low voices, the director of the catering department also hurried over.
After she joined the company, she had seen Chen Yan come to inspect, so she only took a quick glance and saw Chen Yan and Yu Qiaoqiao.
Her originally enthusiastic face suddenly showed a bit more sincerity, and she hurried over to greet him quietly, "Boss. I'm so sorry. I was checking the ingredients at the Chinese restaurant upstairs, so I came a little late."
Chen Yan smiled and said gently, "It's okay. You guys are busy right now. I came here suddenly and caused you some extra burden."
Hearing Chen Yan's words, the director quickly said, "No, no. You come to your own place to eat, what's the trouble?"
As she spoke, she waved to the waiter at the restaurant entrance and said, "Xiao Wang, go and clear Table 1. I'll take Mr. Chen over there."
The waiter was surprised to see the director coming, thinking that the director needed him for something. However, when he saw the director coming to the customer he had just stopped and talking to him in a respectful tone, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
And now, seeing the director asking for the reserved table No. 1 to be used up, he was truly shocked!
After the new management took over the hotel, all hotel employees underwent rounds of training, and they all knew that each restaurant reserved table No. 1 and box No. 1, which were reserved specifically for the boss to come over for meals.
And now, table number 1 has been set up, which proves that the person in front of us is the boss!
For a moment, his anxiety turned into fear.
He hurriedly ran to open the table.
Chen Yan, led by the director of the catering department, went to table number one with Yu Qiaoqiao.
Western restaurants don't have private rooms, they are all in the restaurant. But the location of a restaurant can be good or bad.
For example, Table No. 1 is located in the center of the floor-to-ceiling window, and there is no other table within one meter around it.
Both the view and the atmosphere are the best.
Before, it wasn’t that no one wanted to sit at that seat, but the waiter told them that it was a reserved seat, so they couldn’t sit there.
Now seeing Chen Yan and Yu Qiaoqiao sitting over there, many people turned their eyes over.
Chen Yan didn't care about being stared at by so many people, but Yu Qiaoqiao felt a little shy and blushed.
Just like that, the two of them sat down and the director of the catering department began to take orders.
The waiter who initially led the two people could only return to his original seat and look at Chen Yan's position with longing.
At this time, the two well-dressed couple who came after Chen Yan saw Chen Yan come in and sit in the best seat. They couldn't help but come over and ask, "Hello, I want to ask. Do we have a new table? Can we go in quickly?"
The waiter came to his senses when he heard the couple's question.
Even though his mind was still on Chen Yan and Yu Qiaoqiao, the professionalism he had developed during this period of training still allowed him to smile professionally, and then he replied softly, "Hello, guests. I'm sorry, we don't have a new table, so we still need to wait about 20 minutes."
Hearing the waiter's words, the beautifully dressed woman in the couple couldn't help but point to Table 1 and asked, "Why did they sit at a new table?"
The waiter said calmly, "That man is the boss of our group. He came to have a light meal and has a special reserved seat."
"Boss?!" The couple was stunned for a moment.
Although they don't know the value of this hotel, they know it must be a astronomical figure.
And the man who was dressed casually and seemed to be just here for a quick meal was actually the rich man behind this luxurious hotel?!
For a moment, both of them were so shocked that they were speechless.
After a while, they looked at each other and saw what they were thinking from each other: So... they came to the luxurious restaurant for a sense of ceremony, but for others, it was really just a casual meal...
What the hell is this sense of ritual? It's just because we don't have money...
Chen Yanke didn't know what kind of impact he had caused on other people's worldview. He was discussing ordering food with Yu Qiaoqiao.
Yu Qiaoqiao’s ordering is also very interesting.
Chen Yan asked the director of the catering department to recommend someone.
The director recommended a dish. She opened the menu, looked at the dish, and a look of drooling appeared on her face.
After Chen Yan agreed and said to order this dish, she looked at the price again and an expression of surprise and distress appeared on her face.
Every time this happened, she would look at Chen Yan and want to dissuade him, but perhaps because there were outsiders around, she had to consider Chen Yan's face, so in the end, after opening her mouth slightly several times, she swallowed her words of dissuasion.
It's really hilarious.
Just like that, Chen Yan ordered seven or eight dishes. Just when he wanted to continue ordering, Yu Qiaoqiao finally couldn't sit still anymore. She glanced at Chen Yan weakly, leaned forward slightly, and whispered, "Chen Yan, don't order anymore. It's enough for the two of us. It's really enough."
Chen Yan couldn't help but smile at her cute look, then he looked at the dishes he ordered and felt that they were enough, so he handed the menu to the director of the catering department, "Thanks, that's all ."
The director of the catering department nodded and said, "Okay, Boss. Please wait a moment. I will arrange it right away."
After that, she took the menu and quickly walked to the waiter. After giving Chen Yan's order to the waiter, she said, "This is what our boss wants to eat. Ask the kitchen to prepare it immediately."
After she finished explaining, she was still a little worried, so she picked up the menu again and said, "I'll go explain it again."
After saying that, she headed towards the western-style kitchen...
At this time, table number one in the restaurant.
Chen Yan and Yu Qiaoqiao were drinking the water that the waiter had just poured and chatting.
Yu Qiaoqiao carefully looked around the entire western restaurant, and then asked in a low voice, "Chen Yan, is this restaurant really yours?"
Chen Yan shook his head, "No."
A question mark popped up in Yu Qiaoqiao's head. "But, that person just called you boss. He also said this is your place."
Chen Yan smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes. Because not only this restaurant is mine, the entire hotel is mine."
Hearing Chen Yan's words, Yu Qiaoqiao widened her eyes in surprise and looked at Chen Yan.
After a moment, she couldn't help but ask, "You...you mean, this hotel?"
She gestured cautiously, "Such a big hotel?"
Chen Yan nodded, and then said nonchalantly, "I didn't want to buy this hotel at first. At that time, I only discussed the sale of Fenghua Building with Fenghua Group."
“After I bought it, I realized it was too cheap and I needed something extra. So I bought this hotel.”
"This hotel is not expensive, only a few hundred million."
“I didn’t pay much attention to it when I bought it.”
"Now that I understand it, I realize I really got a great deal."
Although she had known Chen Yan for such a long time and had become immune to his various shopping sprees, Yu Qiaoqiao was still a little shocked when she heard Chen Yan casually say that he had spent hundreds of millions to buy a hotel, and that it was just a bonus.
Moreover, the most important thing is that if someone else said this, Yu Qiaoqiao would probably think that the other person was pretending to be calm. But knowing Chen Yan, she really believed that he didn't care about it when she saw his indifferent expression.
"This is really crazy..."
Yu Qiaoqiao looked at Chen Yan in front of her, and for a moment, she felt a little strange.
She still remembers the scene when she first met Chen Yan.
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