I opened a restaurant in the Pokémon world.

Raising prices first and then offering discounts may seem like a good deal, but merchants actually still make a profit. After all, merchants need to make money to maintain their profit margins. Moreover, the discounts offered in later promotions are becoming increasingly complicated, with more and more complex algorithms. People often complain that they have to do math problems just to buy something.

Heath took the prawns he had bought out of the refrigerator, removed the veins, skewered them, and placed them on the grill.

Heath didn't remove the shrimp heads. Shrimp heads are something that people either love or hate; those who like them enjoy their unique flavor, while those who hate them find them disgusting. So Heath left this choice to the guests and let them decide for themselves.

Grilled shrimp is a delicious barbecue dish, with its fresh seafood flavor and great texture. However, it requires high-quality shrimp and skillful control of the heat. This wasn't Heath's first time making grilled shrimp, so it wasn't too difficult for her. She quickly grilled them, spread her special barbecue sauce on them, and served them to the guests. Seeing how satisfied the guests were, Heath couldn't help but smile. It has to be said that the happiest moment for a chef is seeing guests enjoying the food they've prepared.

"The owner of this restaurant has really good ingredients. These prawns are definitely fresh, otherwise the prawn heads would have a peculiar taste." The man in the young couple took a bite of the prawn head first, then nodded in satisfaction.

As a seasoned gourmet, the man has a strong ability to judge shrimp. In his opinion, the grilled shrimp tasted very good and was definitely the freshest shrimp available. You know, shrimp can sometimes be priced differently depending on whether they are alive or dead.

The price difference between live shrimp and dead shrimp can be as much as double. This is because the taste difference between the two is indeed very large. Live shrimp have firm and chewy meat, while dead shrimp tend to become soft and mushy, and the taste is not very good.

Regardless, Heath's answer to the man satisfied him. After all, such delicious live shrimp, and so big, must be very valuable. This meant that Heath hadn't actually made much money; he was a very honest boss.

It has to be said that many businesses sometimes think that customers are fools. They can steal a few ingredients and customers won't be able to tell the difference between good and bad. They only care about whether it's a good deal or not, without considering the true quality of the ingredients. Then they can make a lot of money. But restaurants that treat customers like fools usually don't last long. Not every customer can't tell the difference between good and bad food.

Just like a certain national-level chili pepper brand in my previous life, after changing the person in charge, its flavor changed, and it started using cheaper chili peppers. This did make more money, but its market share just disappeared.

While treating customers like fools might bring in quick profits for a while, once that period is over, there's no more profit to be made. Heath doesn't want to be such a short-sighted person. Moreover, in Heath's view, customers can always sense when you treat them with care, and they will reciprocate by showing their support.

Restaurants and customers should not be adversaries, but rather mutually beneficial partners.

Heath had no idea that his grilled shrimp had earned him a loyal pair of customers in Baidai City for his rotating hot pot. Even if he did know, Heath wouldn't care. His food truck always focused on providing customers with a good dining experience using high-quality ingredients, rather than using inferior food that would make customers unhappy while eating.

Heath is now facing another problem.

"Guest, you said you wanted ice cream fondue?" Heath looked at the girls in front of him and then confirmed it again.

Soroark had called him over, saying she was a little confused about the guests' requests, so she came to ask Heath for her opinion. When Heath arrived, she heard the guests say that what they wanted to eat was hot pot, but ice cream hot pot.

"Um, we want to eat ice cream fondue, do you have any?" The girl in the lead was quite interesting. She was wearing makeup, not because Heath had any problem with makeup, but because she was wearing colored contact lenses, heart-shaped ones.

Hmm, just imagining a girl wearing heart-shaped contact lenses makes Heath's feelings complicated. After all, heart-shaped eyes are something that often appears in some outrageous comics.

"Ice cream fondue? Of course we have that." Although he really wanted to complain, Heath nodded anyway.

Although ice cream fondue is also called hot pot, it is actually quite different from regular hot pot.

Chapter 574 A Utter Defeat

Although it's called ice cream fondue, it doesn't actually have much in common with hot pot. If you had to compare them, the only similarity is the way they're eaten, except that ice cream fondue uses a variety of desserts and pastries as ingredients.

The broth used in ice cream fondue is often made with chocolate. The rich chocolate sauce slowly swirls and steams under the high temperature, and then you can put the ice cream scoops into it, coat them a few times, and then take them out to eat.

In this way, the outside is warm chocolate, while the inside is cool ice cream, creating a very unique taste.

Besides ice cream, you can also dip some wafer biscuits or other pastries in chocolate sauce to eat. The taste is quite unique and it is a type of dessert that is very popular among dessert lovers.

However, there are some drawbacks as well. Ice cream fondue is very high in calories, and gaining 3 pounds after one meal is no joke.

Heath didn't find this surprising, considering that with so many calories, it would probably take a very long time to burn them off through exercise alone.

These girls really seemed to enjoy ice cream fondue, and after getting their confirmation, Heath went back to the kitchen to start preparing this special fondue. Although Heath didn't have many ingredients, she did have chocolate and other things.

Furthermore, the chocolate sauce used in ice cream fondue doesn't necessarily have to be made with chocolate sauce. Just like in those movies I've seen before, even if you don't know how to make chocolate, you can buy ready-made chocolate from the market, melt it down, and that becomes your own chocolate.

Heath's kitchen was naturally stocked with plenty of chocolate. After all, chocolate does have occasional uses in cooking, though not many, mostly used for making desserts. But Heath, being a chef, bought quite a lot, and now it's come in handy.

However, other desserts and pastries were a bit of a problem for Hiss, but fortunately Zoroark was there, so Hiss sent Zoroark out to buy some ingredients, and Hiss came over to pay the bill with Ralts.

It seems that although there are many customers, Ralts has a strong mental calculation ability, so Hiss doesn't have to worry about not being able to collect payments from these customers. This busy life also gives Hiss a feeling of returning to his old days of setting up a stall.

Soon after, Zoroark returned with the desserts and pastries that Hiss needed. After receiving the desserts and pastries, Hiss had Snorlax make a few ice cream snowballs, which were then placed in front of the girls. The hot pot was not filled with soup, but with chocolate sauce, which emitted a rich aroma and attracted the attention of many people.

Heath hadn't expected that making an ice cream fondue for these girls would actually lead to a significant increase in her dessert sales. Some of them even found the experience of eating something hot followed by something cold quite interesting, so they asked Heath for some ice cream as well.

"Eating hot food followed by cold food can easily cause diarrhea. I think I need to remind you guys. Why don't you consider not eating it for now?" Heath was a little amused and exasperated. Eating hot food followed by cold food is particularly likely to cause problems. For example, back in Pallet Town, Ah Da got a stomachache because he ate hot food and then immediately ate cold food.

However, not many customers were willing to listen to Heath, so Heath had no choice but to serve them ice cream and remind them that if they felt stomach pain when they got home, they should go to the toilet immediately and not gamble, because if they did, they might lose everything.

Most of the guests didn't seem to care much, and Heath couldn't do anything about it. So, as the saying goes, "Listen to advice and you'll have a full meal."

"Trainer, Trainer! Will eating something hot and then immediately eating something cold really cause diarrhea?" Zoroark curiously approached. The food cart in Hiss was already full, so there were no customers Zoroark needed to serve for the time being.

"Think about what happened to Zoroark last time we met in Pallet Town. Zoroark got diarrhea because he ate something hot and then immediately ate something cold." Heath glared at the little girl, Zoroark. Her thoughts were very strange, and no one knew what she would do if she knew about this. In order to prevent her from using herself as a guinea pig, Heath still tried to persuade her.

After all, Zoroark is a big fan of video games. If she suddenly gets a stomachache while playing a game, based on Hiss's understanding of her, she might deliberately endure it or gamble in order to play a game, which would be particularly troublesome.

Even if Zoroark didn't play and went straight to the toilet, the fact that it got diarrhea meant that Zoroark might prevent other Pokémon from going to the toilet for a while.

"Hehe, I don't mean anything by it, I just want to know~" Looking at Zoroark's sly and mischievous appearance, Heath was a little helpless. Although Zoroark was mostly troublesome, she was still sensible. But looking at her current quirky appearance, she was probably going to mess with someone again.

"Tell me what you're going to do first, or I'll have to put you back in your Poké Ball." Hiss said seriously to Zoroark in front of him. Although Zoroark was usually very sensible, it would be troublesome if she caused a ruckus. In order to avoid this girl accidentally offending someone, Hiss decided to ask.

"Seriously, am I that kind of Pokémon?" Zoroark looked completely innocent.

"Yes." Heath answered succinctly, while looking intently at Zoroark. She knew her own Pokémon well, and seeing Zoroark's sneaky look, Heath knew that Zoroark was definitely planning something.

Zoroark's ears drooped, and he looked very unhappy.

"Well, it's nothing really. I was just thinking of giving away a free ice cream to the customers over there." Zoroark pointed to a spot, and Heath looked over there. He then saw a middle-aged man who looked somewhat old-fashioned. The man was wearing glasses and looked like an intellectual.

Chapter 575 Strange Regulations

Heath glanced at the man. The man's expression seemed normal, and there was nothing particularly noteworthy about him. If Heath had to say, he thought the man in front of him was just an ordinary middle-aged man, nothing strange about him. Heath just couldn't understand why Zoroark had such a strong opinion about this man.

"What's wrong?" Heath asked, looking at Zoroark. Although Zoroark was rather mischievous, he rarely did anything irrational. In Heath's opinion, Zoroark's current anger was probably due to something this man had done.

"That guy just tried to touch my butt. I checked three times." Zoroark looked at Heath helplessly. Heath's lips twitched. Goodness, a Fury fanatic, huh?

But wait, if you think about it carefully, Zoroark is actually maintaining Betty's appearance. In other words, this man isn't a Fury fanatic, but a pervert, a complete pervert. This made Heath somewhat amused and exasperated. However, Heath did have some solutions for this kind of thing, so Heath directly dialed Officer Jenny's police number and then went to check the surveillance footage.

Heath's food truck naturally has surveillance cameras, but most of the time they only point towards the kitchen. After all, not everyone likes being watched, so Heath is very careful about the layout of the surveillance cameras. There are only two very ordinary cameras, which is to prevent some unexpected situations. This is also the requirement of Officer Jenny, since restaurants are sometimes high-crime locations.

Rather than arguing afterward, Heath felt it would be better to have surveillance footage so that everyone could speak through it. Otherwise, if everyone had their own version of events, it would be difficult for Officer Jenny to make a judgment.

After reviewing the surveillance footage, Heath discovered that the middle-aged man did indeed frequently reach out and subtly try to touch Zoroark's buttocks or thighs whenever Zoroark passed by. This made Heath's expression turn somewhat serious. It's not to say that there weren't quite a few customers like this; after all, not all customers are very respectful of others. Some customers just think they are God and then intend to do something inappropriate to the waiters or others.

This is considered good. When Heath used to run a restaurant, he encountered customers who were extremely pretentious and even asked the waiters to help them use the restroom. Heath simply kicked them out.

"He didn't touch it, did he?" Heath looked at the footage on the monitor. Strictly speaking, the other party had indeed touched it, but Zoroark was in phantom form, which meant that the other party actually touched thin air and did not actually touch Zoroark's body.

Zoroark shook his head, then hurriedly ran to settle the bills for the other customers. Heath didn't pay any attention, but went out to watch the customer. The customer seemed to have noticed something was wrong and was about to pay and leave, even putting 100 Alliance Coins on the table before leaving. But the next second, two Officer Jennys walked in. The man was a little flustered, but it was clear that he still had some self-righteousness to say, even uttering the famous line, "She dressed like that just so I could touch her."

Heath glanced at Zoroark, who was dressed in a very ordinary waiter's uniform. There was nothing special about it, nor did Heath see anything excessive about it. Even if Heath were to look at it with prejudice, she would at most think that the knee-length skirt that Zoroark had conjured up looked nice, but she couldn't see any intention of 'wanting me to touch it'.

Officers were amused and then left with the man. Zoroark was only asked to register some information, but this matter of registering information made Heath very embarrassed, since Zoroark did not have a resident card. So Heath could only personally talk to Officers and try to persuade them not to record Zoroark's information, but Officers said that it was done according to regulations.

Left with no other choice, Heath had to ask Zoroark to go to the lounge with Officer Jenny so she could explain her situation to them. A while later, Officer Jenny came out with a complicated expression. Her expression was very strange. Heath had just been serving guests and settling accounts in the dining car, so she didn't know what had happened between Zoroark and Officer Jenny in the lounge.

"What's wrong?" Heath looked at Officer Jenny curiously. She was talking to her teammate, and after whispering a few words, her teammate's expression became very complicated.

"...Actually, the League judges these two kinds of things differently. If it's the kind of thing you reported before, then at most it would be a minor public order offense, and then about three days of detention..." The seemingly mature Officer Jenny's expression was very strange now, and Heath was also a little curious, so what was going on?

“However, according to the Sinnoh Region’s ‘Regulations on the Sexual Harassment of Pokémon’ previously established by the League, if this man is found guilty of committing indecent acts against a Pokémon, then he can be detained for the maximum penalty of fifteen days.” Officer Jenny’s expression was complicated; she really hadn’t expected to encounter such an outrageous case.

Hiss was completely bewildered. He had never heard Maple mention anything similar in the Kanto region, so why was this happening in the Sinnoh region? Wasn't this a bit too outrageous?

Regardless, at least it seems that the man is likely to spend half a month in detention, which is truly gratifying.

Heath cheerfully saw Officer Jenny off, then apologized to the guests who had been disturbed by their arrival, and gave each of them a glass of juice as an apology, which instantly made the atmosphere in the dining car even more lively.

"But why would the Sinnoh region have such a strange regulation?" Hiss asked curiously. Although the League's protection of Pokémon is very thorough, it is still surprising that there is a regulation specifically for this kind of thing. In the Kanto region, such things are included in the criminal law, so the standards for punishment are relatively strict.

Heath curiously searched on his phone, and then his expression turned strange.

Chapter 576 A Sorrowful Wind?

Heath then discovered that there were regulations specifically formulated for this purpose, and that was only in the Sinnoh region. The main reason for this was that a dark organization seemed to have appeared in the Sinnoh region in the past, which forced the Sinnoh League to make relevant regulations for such matters. However, the specific details were not mentioned, which made Heath curious, so Heath decided to ask Cynthia.

Cynthia, seemingly doing something, quickly replied to Heath's message. Upon seeing it, Heath couldn't help but touch his nose, thinking how truly crazy this world was.

According to Cynthia, there used to be a dark organization in the Sinnoh region called Team Sadness. Originally, this organization only did what dark organizations do, such as stealing other people's Pokémon, causing damage, or extorting money. However, later, the leader of this organization was discovered to be an eccentric guy who seemed to have a rather strong attraction to Pokémon of the opposite sex...

interest.

As a result, this matter somehow spread from the top down, and eventually the entire Team Sad Wind became perverted. They claimed that they were truly in love with their Pokémon and frequently organized gatherings, which greatly angered the Sinnoh League, who even directly wiped out this dark organization. The "Sinnoh Regional Ordinance on Sexual Harassment of Pokémon" was formulated in this context, making it a case of creating regulations based on current events.

Hiss was somewhat amused and exasperated. No wonder the Sinnoh region was like this. In fact, he was really grateful that reproductive isolation existed in this world. Otherwise, Hiss thought that, given the preferences and habits of some people, these people might have created several new races in this world every year.

After the perverted man left, Heath's food truck returned to a relatively normal state. Heath also noticed that his customer traffic peaked during mealtimes. However, this was not surprising, since he was in the restaurant business. If the customer traffic was higher at other times, he should reflect on whether he had not integrated into the local people's lifestyle.

People's daily routines differ from place to place, just like the difference between Indigo League and Pallet Town. In Indigo League, it's already bustling at 5:30 AM, with people getting up to go to work, exercise, and more people setting up breakfast stalls. But in Pallet Town, there's not a soul around at 5:30 AM; the entire town is still asleep, and people don't start getting up to go to work until very late.

“But my watch… seems a bit inaccurate?” Heath looked at his phone and found that there seemed to be something wrong with the time. It was already 7 p.m., but it was still dusk outside the food truck. This bothered Heath a bit, but fortunately, the problem was easy to solve. He just needed to adjust the time on his phone to the Sinnoh region time. After syncing the time, Heath found that the time was now 5:30 p.m.

Hiss's lips twitched. He felt like an idiot. The Kanto region and the Sinnoh region are so far apart, so it's normal for there to be a time difference. Hiss shook his head helplessly. It seems he'll have to adjust his time when he returns to the Kanto region next time.

The problem that Sheath didn't realize was that if she had entered the Sinnoh region through normal means, the flight attendants there would have kindly reminded her to change her time zone. Otherwise, it would have been quite troublesome, as the Pokémon League doesn't have an absolute standard time. After all, even when the sun rises, the time it takes for each place to be illuminated is different.

"Boss, do you still have any of these fried shrimp skewers? And a bottle of beer, please?" A man's voice interrupted Heath's thoughts. Heath smiled and stood up, continuing to busy herself serving her customers.

The busy work lasted until 8:30 p.m., and only then did Heath's food truck gradually quiet down. Heath looked at the ingredients, closed the door, and hung a "Closed" sign on the doorknob to prevent any customers from accidentally wandering in.

"Business is good today..." Heath yawned. He was still more used to the biological clock of the Kanto region, but suddenly coming to the Sinnoh region, which is several time zones different from Kanto, Heath was really not used to it. According to the Kanto region's time, it should already be 10 pm now.

However, it was only 8:30 pm in Sinnoh, and the nightlife was just beginning. Heath rubbed his hands together and decided to go out for a stroll. After all, he had come all the way to Baidai City, and it would be a shame not to take a look around.

Thinking of this, Heath changed his clothes. He hadn't cooked too many dishes today, so there was very little smell of cooking oil on him. But out of habit, Heath still took a shower and changed his clothes, since he didn't want to smell strange on himself.

After everything was cleaned up, Heath sprayed some Tank Skunk spray on and then went out.

Tank Skunk is a Pokémon League brand that specializes in men's talcum spray. Although Heath doesn't quite understand why they would use such a unique Pokémon as Tank Skunk as their brand, he has to admit that the brand is very effective. After using it, Heath doesn't sweat much and it has a light minty scent.

"Trainer, is this Eternal City? It looks similar to Lavender Town." Zoroark followed Hiss curiously, as Hiss was carrying Ralts.

Farfetch'd and the others were fine, since these guys are very strong, but the problem was Ralts. To prevent the little guy from exhausting himself, Heath simply carried him in his arms.

The shiny Ralts attracted a lot of attention in Hiss's arms, but Hiss didn't care about their stares. After all, seeing a shiny Pokémon was indeed a very surprising thing.

“Yes, a city that feels like it’s full of ruins.” Heath looked around. It was said that Baidai City was built on a large ruin, and it certainly looked very old now, which surprised Heath.

After all, this place looks so beautiful, with a sense of historical solemnity.

Chapter 577 Cover Fraud

Generally speaking, few ancient cities can combine the solemnity of history with urban life, but Baidai City has achieved this. In fact, it can be said that Baidai City has perfectly combined all of these elements. The buildings in Baidai City look very retro, but the interior decoration blends perfectly with the architecture, without any sense of disharmony.

However, Baidai City is not entirely within the ruins. Apart from a few areas that are under special protection, the other ruins are simply designs created by the construction team based on those ancient ruins. Apart from that, the residential buildings and apartments are all in a very standard design style, with nothing special about them. But even so, it still dazzled Heath.