Leisurely Traveler with Check-in System

Chapter 169 - 102: Setting Sail: Cruise Trip Through the Three Gorges!

Chen Kunjie didn’t expect to be this busy, but after calculating, today’s revenue was over 8,000 yuan.

The food in the kitchen was almost sold out, and they used to wonder if such a large back kitchen was necessary. Now they were just glad there was enough space. If they needed to increase the amount of food in the future, there were ways to manage.

Chen Kunjie’s brother, who was also exhausted, leaned back in his chair and said grumpily, "You open a hotpot restaurant and are too stingy to hire any people. At least hire two more chefs for the kitchen. Today, Dad and I were working like dogs for you!"

Chen Kunjie chuckled without saying anything. Indeed, if every day had the same business standard as today, they would need to hire at least two more waiters and two more chefs to keep things running smoothly.

Then, Chen Kunjie looked towards his mom. Normally, she talked the most, but today she hadn’t said much. However, she was the busiest, greeting customers, directing two waiters, and negotiating with guests. Without her, the hall would have been chaotic today.

With a cheeky smile, Chen Kunjie said, "Mom, thank you!"

Chen Kunjie’s mom, hearing her son’s sappy words, immediately showed a disgusted expression, "Stop giving me that nonsense!"

However, she soon showed a gratified expression, crossing her arms, "Hey, I didn’t expect this hotpot restaurant would really take off with you kids managing it." Then she glared at Chen Kunjie’s brother, "Look at your brother, he has ideas and dares to go out and start something."

Chen Kunjie’s brother immediately complained, "Hey, Mom! That’s not what you said before! You used to praise me for listening to you guys. You two change faces too quickly!"

Old Chen took a puff of smoke and said blandly, "It’s got nothing to do with me, don’t drag me into this."

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The opening of the hotpot restaurant went more smoothly than Li Younan imagined.

It took two days out of their schedule.

With the experience from the first day, Chen Kunjie hired two more chefs.

Mainly responsible for preparing dishes in the kitchen, not requiring advanced skills; just able to make fried rice or snacks like sweet rice cakes and pumpkin pancakes. Two more waiters were also hired.

Both Li Younan and Chen Kunjie hope to keep the hotpot restaurant running long-term, so when hiring waiters, they considered long-term cooperation, and hired two experienced aunts as the later waiters.

Although costs increased, based on the business on the first day, the revenue would also be more considerable.

Li Younan had underestimated his fans’ loyalty and everyone’s spending power.

At least half of yesterday’s customers came because of his video.

This situation is likely to continue in the future.

To maximize the advantage, Li Younan added a group-buy link for the hotpot restaurant on his window.

He also turned videos related to the hotpot restaurant into promotional videos.

That means as long as someone browses his window, they can see the video entrance.

Since it’s his own hotpot place, he pinned the video of Chen Kunjie making the hotpot broth to the top for long-term exposure.

The next day, Li Younan did a livestream.

In the livestream room, fans started cracking jokes.

One guy said, "Newcomers might not know this streamer; let me introduce him. He’s a backpacker, a parkour god, a carpenter, a bricklayer, an electrician, a stone carver, a chef, and now also a hotpot restaurant owner."

Then another fan suggested that Li Younan add these descriptions to his profile.

Li Younan can also play the piano, but he hasn’t shown it in his videos, otherwise, he’d have one more label.

Next, the livestream room became lively. A message floated by, "There’s a similar influencer known as the Golden Right Face; what about Younan? The Golden Whole Face?"

Someone else said, "Li Younan, when are you going to publish a book? When are you going to unlock the ’author’ title?"

Li Younan actually listened to the advice.

Thinking for a moment, he changed his bio to: computer engineer, amateur parkour enthusiast, amateur chef, amateur carpenter, stone carver... deputy owner of a hotpot restaurant.

Currently, there are eight or nine labels; looking at these labels is quite amusing.

Netizens treat this as an amusing gag, anticipating when he might unlock another label.

Originally, Chen Kunjie wanted to accompany Li Younan around here, but after the hotpot restaurant opened officially, troubles kept coming one after another.

Every day the hotpot broth wasn’t enough, and it needed to be made on-site each day, so Chen Kunjie was busy all the time.

However, he was quite satisfied, though he apologized to Li Younan, "I can’t accompany you to the Three Gorges."

Li Younan didn’t mind, saying, "I’ll take a tour of the Three Gorges and come back to find you."

For Li Younan, Chongqing City wasn’t as important as the Three Gorges; the Three Gorges was a must-visit.

However, the way of visiting the Three Gorges was much more leisurely than imagined.

JK Dragon had secured quite a few commercial deals, and one of them was for promoting a luxury cruise on the Three Gorges.

Departing from Chaotian Pier in Chongqing, traveling downstream to Yichang as the endpoint. With Li Younan’s current fanbase and influence, he could take on such promotional videos at a high price.

This was a great thing for Li Younan; it saved him the fare and allowed him to earn money. More importantly, he was very much looking forward to this type of travel.