Chapter 2044 - The Restaurant Business Is Hard
Haru had to admit that after coming back to his world, the things that he was doing were quite simple. He either worked, managed his business, or went to flirt with all of his girls. It might seem monotonous, but facing different girls gave him a lot of fun since each of those girls had different personalities, and the way to face them was different too, especially on the bed since each of them showed a different reaction.
Haru had to admit that his trip to Nara with Nozomi was quite interesting, especially when they played a shrine maiden play together at night, which was pretty fun.
After that trip, Nozomi continued to train with everyone in Muse since their performance was about to begin soon.
While everyone at Muse was working hard, Erina and Alice were also working hard, too, since they had to go on Stagiaire.
What is Staigiare?
In simple terms, it is an internship.
Every freshman on the Tootsuki needed to go to the Staigiare, working in a random restaurant to give them real-world occupation training.
As an intern, of course, their jobs were difficult, or rather, they needed to work from the lowest position.
Still, even with Nakiri's name, the trouble that the restaurant where they performed the Staigiare in didn't lower its difficulty, or rather, they were given more trouble, but even so, Erina and Alice could solve all of the trouble by themselves, showing how brilliant they were even if they were working on the real restaurant.
Haru also didn't cause them too much trouble and let them sleep after he massaged them so they could work hard again tomorrow.
The relationship between the three of them was quite good since Erina also knew that sooner or later Alice would be eaten by Haru so she only had an expression of "as-expected" on her face when she knew about the relationship between him and Alice.
As they slept, Haru was reading and talking with his girlfriends about the Staignare. Since they were quite curious about it and listened to his explanation, they felt that the life of a chef was tough.
Haru agreed with their words that being a chef was tough since they needed to come early to the restaurant to prepare the ingredients, and they needed to go back late since they needed to clean up the restaurant.
If they were the owner of the restaurant, then it was all good, but if they were the staff, then they could only numb their since the salary of being a chef in the normal restaurant wasn't that particularly good, and it was exhausting. If they didn't have something known as "passion" to sustain themselves, then it might be hard for them to continue.
"But you have some shares in the restaurant business, right?" Utaha asked.
"Well, I do have some." Haru nodded, but he didn't have some, but a lot of restaurants business.
"What about your coffee business? Isn't that a restaurant too?" Sora asked.
Megumi, Utaha, and Sora weren't that knowledgeable about the restaurant industry, but hearing Haru's story, they felt that this industry was so hard, and someone they remembered about his coffee ship business, Startbucks, that he had bought in the past.
"Coffee shops are different from restaurants. After all, we serve coffee, and coffee won't be bad even if we keep it for a long time, unlike a restaurant where you need to watch over the ingredients so it won't turn bad."
Managing a restaurant wasn't easy, especially when the restaurant had a lot of menus. Still, if a lot of people came and became customers, getting money from a restaurant business would be so easy.
They talked for a while until Haru remembered that he had invested in a French restaurant that was made by Kojirou Shinomiya.
"Really?"
It was their first time hearing it, and they had to admit that they were interested.
"The restaurant is about to do a pre-opening, and I should be able to get one day to test their food. Do you want to go?" Haru asked.
Sora, Megumi, and Utaha looked at each other for a moment, then made up their minds.
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As the Autumn Elections passed, Yukihira also started to move on and also entered the Staignare, working on the restaurant to get a real-world experience. He didn't know what kind of challenge he would face, but he knew that he needed to get stronger, and he really anticipated this challenge.
His first Stagiaire, he didn't feel that much of a challenge since the only problem was that the restaurant that he stayed with was only too many customers during the lunch hours. With him and Hisako, who was her partner during this Staignaire, it was easy for them to handle this overwhelmed restaurant, but after they stayed in this restaurant for a while, they realized that if they weren't at this restaurant again, what would happen?
The answer was simple, and this restaurant would be a mess again.
This was why Hisako and Yukihira decided to talk with the owner and the staff of the restaurant about what to do until they decided to create a booking system where the customers needed to book before they could enter the restaurant and as expected, the result was great.
His first Staignare was successful, and he went to the second restaurant where he would perform his next Staignare, but he didn't expect that he would have to work on the restaurant where it was created by Kojirou Shinomiya.
When Yukihira found out, he was full of excitement since he didn't expect that he would be at the restaurant of Tootsuki alumni that he had challenged in the past. Even though the result of the match was a complete defeat, it was because of this reason he knew that it would be worth it to work at Shinomiya's restaurant.
Still, Yukihira was thinking about what he was about to do, but he didn't expect that he would have to do a clean-up.
'I'll still do it, though.'
As Yukihira, Shinomiya, and Shimoniya ended the cleaning, they talked to each other about the "pre-opening" of the restaurant that would be held two days later.
However, before that...
"Preparing dinner for the only sponsor of your restaurant?" Yukihira was surprised.
"Yes." Shinomiya nodded and said, "If I don't have this sponsor, do you think it is possible for me to create a restaurant at this place?"
The location of Shinomiya's restaurant was special, and it was also beautiful.
If Shinomiya didn't have an investor who helped him, then it would be impossible for him to build his restaurant in this place.
"Be serious, and don't cause trouble. This time, you just need to observe and don't do anything," Shinomiya asked.
Yukihira was dumbfounded and asked, "Why?"
"You can help during the "pre-opening," but this time, I'll have to be serious since if I mess up to prepare the dinner for this person, then my career will end," Shinomiya said with a serious expression.
"So serious?!" Yukihira was dumbfounded and asked, "Who is this person? Prime minister?"
"No, if I have to say, this person is even stronger than the prime minister." Shimoniya looked at Yukihira and said, "You have seen him before. His name is Kasugano Haruka."
"......." Yukihira.