Have you ever seen glowing food? That's why you draw a food-themed anime.

[Replica Barbecue Dish Wish Value: 120/1000]

[A customer can only gain one wish point per day for ordering the same dish.]

Xu Zhou: "..."

Forget it.

The profit margin at this price isn't much anyway.

Now that we've opened the door, it will be more troublesome to refuse later. It's better to be upfront about the unpleasant aspects and establish the rules beforehand.

...

Xu Kai and his friends were excitedly preparing to pay the bill, and even started arguing about how many portions to buy.

"I'll take all eight portions!"

"No, Brother Xu, give me two portions! I want to buy two portions to take home for my parents to try."

"You live in a school dorm, and you're going to buy food for your parents? Are you going to take the high-speed train?"

"Brother Xu, you can't possibly use this many portions by yourself!"

"Who says I can't finish it? I'm going to take it back for my dad. Maybe he'll be happy and give me more pocket money!"

"Boss, scan the code to pay! I'll pay now!"

Xu Zhou looked at the stagnant wish points and notifications for the replica barbecue dish: "Wait, but then again..."

"...!!!"

When Xu Kai saw Xu Zhou retract the payment code, alarm bells went off in his mind.

What do you mean?

Could it be that he felt his attitude online was too bad before?

Regret it?

Could it be that they want to hear me apologize?

Xu Kai had never apologized before in his life, but when he saw Xu Zhou put his phone with the QR code for receiving payments back into his pocket, his mouth moved faster than his brain.

"I was wrong!"

"I admit I was ignorant, boss, please don't hold it against me!"

"I'll apologize in the comic's comment section while I eat my second serving!"

Does this mean we won't be able to eat it today?

Just thinking about the delicious taste that had almost exploded in his brain made Xu Kai's craving for food rise even higher.

[Prayer Points +1]

Xu Zhou: "That's not the issue. If you want to eat it, let's go early tomorrow."

Xu Kai stared intently at the ingredients over there, and subconsciously swallowed.

"We still have these ingredients..."

[Prayer Points +1 +1]

...

When Xu Zhou saw the rate at which the prayer value increased, he roughly understood the pattern of increase.

The amount a person can increase in a day is limited, and the same dish can only be increased once.

Scarcity marketing will generate higher growth than letting a person eat their fill for a day.

Xu Zhou thought for a moment: "How about this, if you bring in five new customers who place orders, we'll give you an extra..."

"Give us a second one?" the two asked in unison, their faces filled with excitement.

Cai Cai is planning to invite the five people from her dormitory group over.

[CaiCai: Come quick!]

The message had barely been sent when Xu Zhou shook his head speechlessly: "No, an extra gift is impossible."

“My ingredients are very expensive, but if you bring in five customers, I can give you a voucher for a second purchase.”

"Do I need to get five people to place an order before I can buy a second one? Am I even eligible to buy a second one?"

"Correct."

"..."

Is something wrong here?

Cai Cai and Xu Kai were stunned.

If this had happened to him in another store, he would have slapped them across the face.

I'm not going to eat your food.

I have to bring in five customers for you to have the right to buy a second serving of the same dish. What do you think you are, some kind of world-class restaurant?

But looking at the young man's calm yet confident voice, it seemed perfectly reasonable.

It was indeed an unprecedented level of culinary skill.

It's so damn delicious!

...

That's how the bottom line was lowered step by step, and the two accepted Xu Zhou's proposal in just a second.

Instead, they were very eager to mutter about who to invite to eat.

"Row!"

"We'll go and invite people from the group right now!"

"Five, right? I brought my dad, my mom, my brother, and my sister."

Xu Kai handed over his phone and pointed at Cai Cai: "By the way, he's the one I brought here. There's even a chat history on it!"

The chat history on the phone is very clear.

These are chat logs between Xu Kai and Cai Cai before they came to the store.

[Xu Kai: That comic book author is still being stubborn. I'm planning to go and ambush him offline. Do you want to come with me?]

[Xu Kai: I'm planning to give it one star after I finish eating, and then take a screenshot and post it in the Food Wars! manga section to show this author how pathetic he is. Are you going?]

[CaiCai: Okay! I've already received the red envelope! I'll go with you!]

"Who's being stubborn?"

Xu Zhou pointed to the chat history between Xu Kai and Cai Cai on Xu Kai's phone and glanced at it: "Are you talking about me?"

"Uh... I! I'm being stubborn!" Xu Kai thought of his previous remarks and frantically started deleting comments and posts in the comic section, immediately kneeling down in despair.

"Oh, so this... clown?"

"I! I'm the clown!"

Xu Kai was terrified of being blacklisted by the store, and his eyes were practically overflowing with sincerity. He immediately deposited money into his account to tip the store with book coins.

A notification immediately popped up on the Penguin homepage.

Xu Kai donated 10,000 book coins to "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma".

Xu Kai donated 10,000 book coins to "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma".

He didn't stop until he had tipped 100,000 book coins.

"Boss, look..."

"Row."

Xu Zhou then took an A4 sheet of paper, drew a circle on it, and wrote Xu Kai's name at the bottom.

"Alright, if you bring five people, you can order any dish."

But there's no discount.

When Xu Kai saw him using A4 paper again, he hesitated, but didn't dare to say anything, so he could only nod and say, "Okay, thank you, boss... This A4 paper shouldn't fall out, right?"

Why do I feel so uneasy about it?

...

After Xu Kai and Cai Cai left, Xu Zhou sold a few more individual orders before closing at 8 p.m.

Go home for dinner!

As soon as I got home, the food was already laid out on the table.

When his mother, Zhang Yinghong, saw him, she quickly wiped her hands and anxiously pulled out her phone: "Xiaozhou, we just received a review! Take a look..."

"what happened?"

After washing his hands, Xu Zhou noticed his mother's anxious expression and asked in confusion, "Did you get another one-star review?"

That's impossible...

Didn't they have a good reaction to the food?

Zhang Yinghong waved her hand, flustered: "Son, someone actually gave our store five stars, and the two orders on it together sold 3,776 yuan!"

"Ok, I know."

"Did they make a mistake?"

"Yes."

After glancing at the menu, Xu Zhou sat down at the table and took a bite of food: "Mom, I've cancelled all the dishes you ordered before. Now my private chef restaurant only has one dish."

"One dish?"

Zhang Yinghong glanced down at the latest comments and looked utterly bewildered.

"One thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight?"

The key point is, the son was even sold?

Two more were sold?

Two customers who spent 1,800 yuan per dish on average still raved about it in the review section of Dianping (a Chinese review platform).

[Xu Kai: The picture/bill has been uploaded. Although one dish cost 1,888 yuan, it was extremely worthwhile! Five-star review! The owner's cooking skills and knife skills are unparalleled! Absolutely amazing...]

A whole bunch of rainbow-colored compliments, praising in every possible way.

Seeing this, Zhang Yinghong began to wonder if her son was truly a world-renowned culinary genius.

Is there a paid troll team behind Chapter 6 of this comic?

After finishing his meal, Xu Zhou decided to continue working on the second episode.

After transmigrating, he felt that his hand speed seemed to have increased significantly.

A single comic book episode typically consists of six to twelve pages, with some episodes containing a dozen to twenty or thirty pages.

Actually, the actual drawing speed is not slow.

However, the most time-consuming parts are storyboarding and plot design.

However, for me, the storyboards, plot, and dialogue of Food Wars! were all readily available.

I can clearly remember every scene from every episode.

You don't need to worry about details when drawing; just copy the drawing. It's very fast to get started.

"Start the animation!"

Xu Zhou was full of fighting spirit: "So that we can have more dishes in the restaurant!"

"The second episode is about the red-haired boy, Soma Yukihira, taking the entrance exam for Totsuki Academy, and the examiner is none other than the female protagonist!"

"This is absolutely a classic scene."

He picked up his drawing tablet and started drawing manga like crazy, beginning with the second chapter of "Food Wars!".