Health?
The three women looked at each other and felt there was some truth to it.
The current catering industry was truly deplorable. If a restaurant could be clean, that would be a good selling point.
The problem was… the Wu family’s restaurant was already very clean!
Su Wanran shook her head and said, "The Wu family has been in this business for a hundred years. If they weren't clean, they would have been exposed and eliminated long ago. In fact, the Wu family has extremely strict hygiene management. Eating at their place is very healthy. I don't think it's very practical to defeat Wu Lingxuan from this angle."
Su Ru and Jiang Mengxin held the same view.
It was indeed impractical.
However, the three of them had misunderstood Lu Ming's intention.
Lu Ming continued, "What I mean by healthy is not just about cleanliness and hygiene. I mean we should open a restaurant that can promote well-being and even treat illnesses!"
What?
Promote well-being? Treat illnesses?
Promoting well-being could still be understood. Using healthy food and balanced nutritional recipes for well-being was something many wealthy people did. Athletes even treated their wellness meals as part of their work.
Apart from needing to spend more money hiring professionals, everything else was manageable.
But treating illnesses was a bit…
This was the first time they had heard of treating illnesses through eating. Was it a restaurant or a hospital?
If eating could cure diseases, why not shut down all hospitals? What would be the point of keeping them open? It was simply a joke, utter nonsense!
Jiang Mengxin glared at Lu Ming and said coldly, "Promoting well-being is acceptable, but treating illnesses is too far-fetched. Lu Ming, when running a restaurant and doing business, it's crucial to avoid exaggeration. The bigger the boasts you make, the greater the damage to yourself when they are exposed. Do you understand?"
Lu Ming chuckled.
He said very seriously, "Treating illnesses through food is not entirely impossible. I will customize dishes for each guest based on their physique, specifically to treat their ailments. Of course, some serious illnesses cannot be cured. But minor issues like colds, fevers, stomach discomfort, poor appetite, fatigue, and even anorexia can be resolved through food. We will focus on these people and create a restaurant that treats illnesses!"
Hearing this, everyone's spirits immediately lifted.
Especially Su Wanran.
She had witnessed Lu Ming's miraculous actions several times and knew that Lu Ming's medical skills were quite formidable. If Lu Ming were to customize dishes based on a customer's body, it would definitely be feasible.
This way, a "healing restaurant" could find a niche and create a differentiated path.
With such a strong gimmick, even those who were not ill would want to try it.
However, a problem still remained.
Su Wanran said, "Ultimately, we are opening a restaurant, not a hospital. Even if we customize dishes for customers and treat illnesses, we absolutely cannot compromise on taste! The primary duty of a restaurant is to make delicious food!"
That's right.
The primary duty of a restaurant was, of course, to be delicious.
If the food you made was incredibly unpalatable, even worse than medicine, then customers might as well just take medicine. Why would they come to your restaurant for food?
This point stumped Lu Ming.
Although Lu Ming's medical skills were superb, his culinary skills were only at the level of home cooking.
If you asked him to create delicious dishes using ingredients prepared on the spot, he would absolutely not be able to do it. Even the Dragon Warlord had things he couldn't do.
To accomplish Lu Ming's grand vision, they needed to find a highly skilled chef, someone who could adapt to any ingredients given and create delicious dishes, an exceptionally talented chef!
Did such a person exist in Mist City?
Even if one did, they would certainly have been headhunted by major restaurants, perhaps even working at the Wu family's restaurant. The problem was, the Wu family wouldn't easily let them poach someone.
Everyone fell into silence.
They thought for a long time without coming up with a solution. They usually had no contact with chefs, and now that they needed someone, they couldn't think of anyone.
Finally.
Su Ru took out her phone and called Old Madam Shen Dianlan. Shen Dianlan was older and more experienced, and perhaps she would have a suitable candidate.
After making the call and explaining the situation, Shen Dianlan replied after a long period of thought, "At the Mist City West City Mental Hospital, there's someone named Bian Ru who might be suitable."
Bian Ru?
A mental hospital?
The three women's faces were simultaneously etched with large question marks, expressing their confusion.
How could they find a mentally ill person to be the head chef?
Su Ru said, "Mom, are you joking? Hiring a mentally ill person as a head chef? If something goes wrong, and there's another food poisoning incident, our Su family will be completely ruined!"
Shen Dianlan replied, "That Bian Ru was originally a very accomplished special-grade chef, sought after by various restaurants, earning tens of millions annually. He was extremely popular. He never picked ingredients; even the most ordinary cabbage, tofu, and tomatoes could be transformed into delicious dishes by him. He was a top-tier talent. However, something happened later, which caused him to have a mental breakdown and fall into despair, leading him to be admitted to a mental hospital."
Lu Ming asked curiously, "What happened? It must have been a tremendous blow to him."
Shen Dianlan said, "According to reports from that time, Bian Ru was teaching his daughter how to cook. A phone call came, and he went to answer it, not paying attention to his daughter. As a result, his daughter operated incorrectly, causing a fire. The blaze engulfed the entire house, burning to death Bian Ru's wife, daughter, and parents. Only he was miraculously saved by the firefighters. Bian Ru suffered burns on 60% of his body and took over a year to slowly recover. However, while his body recovered, his mind did not. Bian Ru always believed that his negligence led to the death of his entire family. From then on, he was filled with self-reproach and suffering, and eventually, he couldn't bear it and developed a mental illness."
After hearing the account, everyone fell silent.
That was too tragic.
Teaching his daughter to cook, just because he answered a phone call and wasn't watching his child, resulted in a fire that killed his whole family.
And he was miraculously rescued by firefighters, only to spend the rest of his life in pain and self-blame.
No wonder he developed a mental illness.
With such an experience, anyone would find it difficult to cope.
Alas…
What a pity.
After hanging up the phone, Su Ru looked at everyone and asked, "So, do you think this person can be hired?"
Lu Ming said, "Whether he can be hired depends on whether we meet him. First and foremost, his culinary skills are definitely not a problem. If we can find a way to help him emerge from his mental prison and recover his health, perhaps he can still be useful. But if he remains trapped in his mental prison and cannot escape, then this person truly cannot be used."
Everyone else expressed the same opinion.
Whether he could be used depended entirely on whether Bian Ru could be saved and whether a way could be found to restore him to normalcy!
Suddenly.
Su Ru looked at Lu Ming and asked with a wicked grin, "Young man, did you just finish taking a shower?"
Lu Ming nodded, "Yes, why?"
Su Ru said, "You come out to meet three women wrapped only in a towel after showering. Why are you so flamboyant?"
Ugh…
Lu Ming was quite speechless.
Weren't they discussing important matters!
"Then I'll go back and get dressed before coming back," Lu Ming turned and walked towards his room.
Suddenly.
Su Ru grinned wickedly, stepped forward, grabbed Lu Ming's towel, and pulled it hard, shouting, "Show us, my little darling!"
The towel fell, revealing everything.
Lu Ming stood naked before the three women.
Jiang Mengxin and Su Wanran suddenly saw Lu Ming, and their gazes turned red with embarrassment.
"Ah!!!"
"Pervert!!!"
Sharp screams from women echoed in the room, along with Su Ru's loud, wicked laughter.