First, Luotian made herself a simple breakfast of fried eggs, milk, and toast. After eating, she grabbed her car keys and headed out.
Yesterday, she had seen a hotel online that was being put up for transfer. Luotian had eaten there before, and the food was very good. Business was also excellent, and it was already a well-known hotel in the city.
It also served food from early morning all the way until late-night meals, which made it a perfect fit for her requirements.
She had happened to see the transfer listing last night and immediately contacted them. They had arranged to meet at the hotel today.
The hotel was not far from her home. It took about half an hour to drive there.
Soon, she met the hotel owner.
The person in charge was a man in his forties whose surname was Liu.
Luotian told Boss Liu that she wanted to take over the hotel.
Boss Liu looked at the young girl in front of him and was somewhat incredulous.
“Miss Luotian, my hotel isn’t cheap. If I weren’t having financial problems, I wouldn’t really want to sell it when business is doing so well.”
“Boss Liu, don’t worry. Money isn’t a problem. Besides, I’m not buying this hotel to continue running it as a restaurant. Recently, I received a catering contract from a large corporation. It requires three meals a day plus a late-night meal, and the order is extremely large with a very tight schedule. I don’t have time to find another chef team and office space from scratch. Your hotel fits my requirements perfectly.”
Boss Liu had not expected this young girl to be so capable, so he did not say anything more.
He urgently needed the money anyway. Whoever bought the hotel and whatever they planned to use it for had nothing to do with him.
The two quickly finalized the transfer agreement.
When Boss Liu saw the payment arrive on his phone, he nodded in satisfaction.
After Boss Liu left, Luotian immediately had the hotel staff close the establishment and then gathered everyone for a meeting.
“Hello, everyone. My surname is Luo. Your Boss Liu has sold the hotel to me, so I’m your new boss. Starting tomorrow, our hotel will no longer be open to the public.”
The chefs and servers attending the meeting became nervous when they heard that the hotel would no longer operate normally.
Was Miss Luo planning to shut down the hotel?
What would happen to all of them?
Jobs were extremely difficult to find these days.
“Everyone, don’t be nervous. Although our hotel will no longer be open to the public, the daily work will continue. I’ve received a catering order from a large corporation. We need to prepare a huge amount of food every day, four meals a day, with at least 1,200 servings per meal. This workload will be very heavy for you, so starting tomorrow, I’ll increase your existing salaries by another 30%.”
Luotian did not waste any time and directly explained her requirements.
The chefs and servers below were first extremely shocked, then delighted.
They really had not expected their new boss to give them a 30% raise right after taking over.
What did it matter if they had to work a little harder?
Luotian had already thought it through.
If they continued preparing food for three months, she would have enough food to last her several lifetimes.
However, the chefs at the hotel only knew how to prepare Chinese cuisine, so the flavors would inevitably be somewhat limited.
Therefore, she made another request and asked them to make the meals as varied as possible.
The types and flavors of the dishes would be left to the head chef.
The hotel already had a manager who handled the business whenever the owner was away.
So, Luotian simply left the hotel’s management in his hands and asked him to discuss a menu with the chefs.
The variety needed to be as extensive as possible.
For lunch, she had the chefs prepare a table of dishes.
After tasting them, she found the food very good.
She asked them to add more beverages, pastries, cakes, snacks, and similar items.
In short, everything needed to be as varied as possible.
Once everything was prepared, it would all be packed up, and she would come to collect it herself.
She left a bank card with the person in charge of the hotel. It contained enough money to buy ingredients for a week.
Then Luotian left.
She only had one class that morning, and as soon as it was over, she immediately left.
After leaving the university, she went to several Western restaurants.
Using the same excuse, she ordered 200 meals from each restaurant every day for three consecutive months.
She did the same with milk tea shops from various brands.
She ordered 100 cups of milk tea every day for three consecutive months, with everything delivered directly to her warehouse.
Next came various cake shops, dessert shops, and private bakeries.
She ordered the maximum quantity from each one every day and arranged for deliveries to continue for two months.
Everything would be sent directly to the warehouse.
Since she would need to collect deliveries every day, she went to a car rental agency and rented a box truck.
As for the small car she usually drove, she had already stored it in the Planting Space when no one was around.
After spending the entire day running around outside, Luotian was completely exhausted by the time she returned home.
However, she still made some time to play with Qizai.
Qizai told her that once the goods arrived, it could help organize everything.
This immediately made Luotian feel that her workload had been reduced considerably.
Although the Planting Space was huge, the villa inside it also had a basement.
However, the basement was not very large.
There were so many supplies that the basement definitely could not hold everything, so she could only store them outside.
Fortunately, the outside area could also preserve things, so nothing would spoil.
The only problem was that there was nowhere to put everything.
So, after leaving the Planting Space, she immediately began ordering shelves online.
She wanted the largest, tallest, and strongest shelves available.
Of course, they were not cheap.
Since she needed so many, the seller would send people to install them for her.
This saved her a great deal of work.
After settling the shelving issue, she began shopping again.
Five tons each of high, medium, and low-gluten flour, five tons of corn flour, two tons of buckwheat flour, two tons of whole wheat flour, one ton of soybean flour, one ton of sweet potato starch, and one ton of corn starch.
She also ordered two tons each of various self-rising flour mixes for steamed buns, self-rising cake flour, and dumpling flour.
Then came various types of dried noodles, 1,000 boxes of each.
She ordered 50,000 boxes of instant noodles in various brands and flavors, 50,000 boxes each of self-heating rice and self-heating hot pot meals, and 50,000 boxes each of various rice noodles, snail rice noodles, hot and sour noodles, instant wontons, and instant porridge.
Then there were various hot pot bases.
She definitely needed more spicy ones.
Just imagining having a steaming hot pot during freezing weather made her feel incredibly satisfied.
Of course, hot pot would not be complete without all kinds of meatballs.
Beef balls, tribute balls, fish balls, shrimp balls, chicken balls, crab sticks, hot pot dumplings, egg dumplings, fish tofu, shrimp paste…
Then came duck blood, fried tofu sheets, beef rolls, lamb rolls, thousand-layer tofu, dried tofu sticks, beef tripe, duck intestines, duck gullet, hot pot noodles, and omasum…
As Luotian placed her orders, she could not help marveling at how powerful the internet had become.
To ensure that these ingredients arrived fresh, they were all shipped through cold-chain logistics.
Even in extremely hot weather, there was no need to worry about them spoiling.
She also saw that the estimated delivery time was only one or two days after placing the order.
That speed was practically comparable to a rocket.
She was ordering such huge quantities that she was purchasing wholesale, so the prices were basically the same as those at the wholesale market.
Modern logistics was truly convenient, and the internet was incredibly powerful.
Someone like her could sit at home and buy all kinds of goods from every corner of the country and even from around the world.
Some products were shipped directly from their places of origin and were even cheaper than those at wholesale markets.
This saved her a considerable amount of money.