Chapter 586 Insidious
Seeing Cui Junxian standing there motionless, Ma Lu said again.
"Why, is there anything else, or do you want to learn from my pork chop rice cake?
"Yeah. I don't mind teaching you. After all, it is also my vision to let more people eat better pork chop rice cakes. But now we are pressed for time, so let's wait until this round of competition is over."
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Cui Junxian's face became even more ugly when he heard this, but Ma Lu's words did remind him.
The time in this round of competition is very tight, and there is no point in spending it here any longer. Moreover, although Malu was talking to him, his hands never stopped.
After a while, he collected more than a dozen snack coupons, including the 4 he just contributed, all of which were obtained from selling pork chops, rice cakes and so on.
Cui Junxian took a deep look at Ma Lu and said harshly, "I hope you can pass this round, and I will defeat you personally."
After saying that, Cui Junxian left without looking back and returned to his cooking station.
The 90 minutes passed very quickly. Before the end, many people knew that it was impossible to collect 100 snack coupons, so they calmed down and did not rush for time.
Some people even made creative snacks on the spot, or gave away excess unsold snacks for free.
However, there were also a few players who fought until the very end.
Among them is Cui Junxian, who was very proud at the beginning of the game. Now his eyes are bloodshot and his back is soaked with sweat. He is truly sweaty.
Because the game was about to end in 5 minutes, he only had 91 snack coupons in his hand, which was 9 short of promotion.
However, there were only 4 customers in front of his cooking station, and he had to find a way to attract 5 more customers.
Cui Junxian, who owns his own restaurant at a young age and has achieved great success, has hosted countless dignitaries and received personal praise from Samsung head Lee Jae-yong.
I never thought that one day I would have to attract people by shouting like a roadside stall owner.
But there was no way, since Malu copied his pork chop rice cake, his business has been greatly affected.
Also affected were Luo Junkang and Kawano Zhengming, but among the three, he was the only one who went to Malu.
And they had a head-on confrontation with Malu, and finally succeeded in proving that the genuine ones are indeed not as delicious as the pirated ones.
The duel between the two was watched by many people, and it even spread among the public jury.
This caused his originally busiest stall to suddenly become deserted.
After all, the banquet hall is so big. If two companies make the same thing, one is more delicious than the other and it is cheaper to buy. Naturally, no one wants to eat at the expensive and unpalatable restaurant.
After realizing this, Cui Junxian immediately took some remedial measures. He adjusted the menu and added fried rice cakes and Korean noodles. Unfortunately, the sales were not as good as the previous pork chop rice cakes.
Moreover, re-selecting ingredients and preparing dishes also delayed him a lot of time.
The result was that towards the end of the competition, Cui Junxian, the number one seed in the Asian region of this MasterChef competition, did not receive enough snack coupons to advance.
What made him even more angry was that Malu on the other side was also trying to attract customers just like him.
Facts have proved that Malu’s limited-time special package is indeed limited-time.
It was taken off the shelves on time half an hour ago, and then a new limited-time discount package with 4 snacks for only two coupons was put on the shelves.
He hit the bone directly and set off the whole audience again.
And unlike Cui Junxian, Ma Lu got 100 coupons early. Just when the people behind him were worried that they would not be able to eat his snacks, Ma Lu took the initiative to stand up and announced that he would not let down everyone's love and support and would do so until the end of the game.
As soon as these words came out, the diners immediately cheered.
But the chefs nearby were dumbfounded. They finally waited until the disruptor who violated the rules and destroyed the market price was about to leave.
Unexpectedly, Ma Lu turned into an old scalper and continued to work.
The question is, what's the point of working for so long? The female host said at the beginning that if you get 100 snack coupons, you can advance to the next round. If you get more, there will be no reward.
Therefore, most people should close the booth and rest after collecting 100 tickets. There is no reason to be in trouble with their own bodies, and it will also affect other people's advancement.
Hey, wait...
Some contestants finally thought about it and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
What a sinister intention! It's not enough to advance yourself, but you actually want to prevent others from advancing!
Their guess was not wrong. Ma Lu had not been thinking about how to pass the test from the beginning, because since the second round of the competition was based on street food, it was certain that he would advance.
So Malu turned his attention to how to eliminate as many competitors as possible.
Although he doesn't care about the challenge with Lao Wang in hand, he can take out people in the second round and save some effort.
He initially decided on a limited-time package - packing 4 of the most popular snacks in the venue and selling three snack coupons. In addition to grabbing customers, he was already secretly trying to increase the intensity of other players.
It is known that there are 500 people on the public jury, and each person has 5 snack coupons. The total number of snack coupons is 2,500. As long as you can get 100 coupons from them, you can advance.
There is certainly nothing wrong with this algorithm, but the reality is more complicated.
In order to rush for time, most chefs will only cook one kind of snack, while the public judges will tend to taste more kinds of delicacies. The stalls that have eaten once will not patronize the stalls a second time.
So in fact, for these stalls, what they can win is not 2,500 votes, but only 500 votes.
And all the public judges who purchased the limited-time special package in Malu consumed 3 snack coupons at one time.
In other words, they would only visit two more stalls before completely disappearing from the 500-person judging panel.
In this way, the number of customers that the remaining chefs can win will be permanently reduced, and competition between stalls will become more intense.
Malu cut prices again after a period of time, but still had the same idea.
According to his observation, at this point in the competition, the public judges did not have many snack coupons in their hands, and most people could not come up with three coupons. At this time, Ma Lu increased the amount of money.
Using more favorable prices, the remaining snack coupons in these people's hands were also wiped out, further reducing the total number of customers.
This is why Cui Junxian is only short of the last 5 coupons, but no matter how hard he yells and even advertises buy one, get two free, he still can't get enough coupons.
It's not that everyone doesn't want to support him, but that they really have no tickets left.
Cui Junxian used all his strength to suck the milk, but he only caught another customer. At this time, there were less than 20 seconds left before the end of the game.
(End of chapter)