Chapter 785 Punishment
Jiang Feng only sold two portions of fried shredded potatoes in four days.
Everyone guessed that his stir-fried shredded potatoes might be a hindrance, but they didn't expect it to be such a hindrance.
Even though the two orders of shredded potatoes received two positive reviews respectively, Jiang Feng only earned four points in four days.
As of 11pm on Thursday, Tai Fung House had only scored a total of 525 points.
Among them, Jiang Feng scored 4 points, Sun Maocai scored 16 points, Wu Minqi scored 87 points, and Sun Jikai scored 418 points. The combined scores of Jiang Feng and Sun Maocai were only two points more than Sun Jikai's fraction.
Before the game started, everyone thought that Sun Jikai might be the one holding Tai Feng Lou back. But when the game actually started, everyone discovered that Sun Jikai was actually the one who really carried the game.
In any case, even if they are one to three, these three pig teammates are too difficult to lead.
Among them, the most difficult one to take was definitely Jiang Feng. Starting almost from the afternoon of the next day, the camera teacher stationed in the kitchen stopped taking photos of Zhang Guanghang and focused on Jiang Feng almost the whole time. Slap his hand against his face, trying to capture his subtle facial expressions.
In this way, Jiang Feng suspected that these camera teachers might have a special group, and they would communicate every night about the performance of the people they photographed. Jiang Feng was probably the last one, and even the camera teacher thought he was really miserable, so he gave him more shots.
It could also be that the camera teacher simply wanted to capture a scene in which Jiang Feng was desperate, angry, and even violent, to increase the excitement of the show.
But Jiang Feng didn't. Jiang Feng had been very calm these four days.
He was so calm that he wanted to kill someone.
Jiang Feng had thought of many ways to turn the situation around, including some unfair methods to get customers to order fried shredded potatoes, but in the end he rejected them in his heart.
As long as the guests are in their right mind, who has nothing to do can order Jiang Feng's dish and shredded potatoes.
"Hey." Jiang Feng sighed.
He is obviously the one who has taken the template of the protagonist of the novel, but why is it useless to hang up at the critical moment?
Since the recording of the show began, the sales of Jiang Feng and Sun Maocai's competition dishes have been bleak, Wu Minqi has performed steadily, and Sun Jikai has almost been overworked. The atmosphere in the back kitchen of Tai Feng House has always been very subtle.
Everyone thinks Tai Fung House is going to lose.
Maturity depends on the method. If it was because Sun Jikai defeated Tai Feng Tower and lost, everyone would think this is normal. Although it is a bit regretful, after all, there is no way to reverse the shortcomings. But now it is Jiang Feng and Sun Maocai who are trying to pull each other apart, which makes everyone unacceptable.
If you want to say what the specific feeling is, it is probably——
That's it?
That's it? !
Are you going to lose? ? !
Wu Minqi poured Jiang Feng a glass of water and subconsciously looked up at the camera above the living room.
"Today's score statistics should be out." Wu Minqi sat next to Jiang Feng.
"It's out." Jiang Feng drank half a glass of water, "I'm still too slow."
"Fengfeng, don't say that." Wu Minqi also felt helpless about the current situation.
Drawing lots is inherently a matter of metaphysics, and metaphysical problems can only be solved with metaphysical abilities. Unfortunately, no one in Taifeng Tower can tell fortunes and change fortunes against the will of heaven, so they can't help Jiang Feng.
At first, Jiang Feng felt that even if Tai Feng Tower was unlucky in the first week, the dishes drawn by the two main players were very stifling, and the score was destined to be low and might still be at the bottom. But as long as the luck in the second week is not as bad as in the first week, a good result is maintained, and a counterattack begins in the third and fourth weeks, it is possible to win.
This kind of plot of a steady and step-by-step counterattack is very enjoyable to see.
But the premise is that the scores in the first week cannot be too low.
Although everyone does not know the scores of the other seven participating restaurants, they are definitely higher than Tai Fung House, and may be much higher.
Only the top two can qualify. If the scores in the first week are too low, they will basically say goodbye to qualifying.
The current situation in Tai Feng Tower is that there are four contestants on the surface, but in fact only two are competing. Jiang Feng and Sun Maocai were basically negligible. They were forced to paddle the entire process, relying entirely on Sun Jikai to support them. During this time, Sun Jikai was almost stir-frying PDST. During lunch, Jiang Feng could feel Sun Jikai's right hand shaking at a frequency of stir-fried Niuhe. Those who didn't know thought that Young Master Sun was old. Suffered from Parkinson's disease.
The chef is first and the competition is second. Tai Fung House cannot involve the chef just for a bad competition.
"I think Sun Jikai can't go on like this. Do you know how many orders he has taken today? I feel like he hasn't stopped. I saw his arms shaking when I was having lunch today. There are still two days left. Don't lose your hands when the time comes." Jiang Feng said.
"But, it's only useful for him to take orders." Wu Minqi seemed a little frustrated, "His fried beef river became famous during this period, and the customers who ordered his dishes basically ordered fried beef river."
Just when the two were at a loss what to do, there was a sudden knock on the door.
When he opened the door, he found Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai, both of whom looked very bad.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Feng welcomed the two of them in. He could guess from their faces that something bad had happened.
"I called you just now and you didn't answer the call. Didn't you read the message the program team sent just now?" Sun Jikai asked.
"Announcement?" Jiang Feng quickly took out his mobile phone. He was worrying about points with Wu Minqi just now, so he really didn't pay much attention to his mobile phone.
Because it is a reality show, sometimes some temporary situations and problems may arise during the recording of the show, so the staff of the program team who are responsible for the filming and recording of each restaurant created a WeChat group for the contestants in each restaurant.
There is generally no news in this group.
But now there is.
It is an announcement and a document.
Bazhenkan was suspected of cheating due to illegal operations. After discussion by the program team, it was finally decided to disqualify him from the competition and announced the participants' points and cheating facts.
Cheating!
Jiang Feng quickly clicked on the file under the announcement.
In fact, Bazhenguan is not stupid. He did not do anything that was obvious at a glance and was caught on the spot. Their cheating was quite skillful, and it could even be said that they almost went undetected.
Bazhenguan has launched a special package.
It is a normal operation of restaurant marketing to launch special packages. Bazhen Guan did not deliberately put all the dishes into one special package. There was even only one participating dish among the six special packages. The discounts for these packages were very general, so the program team didn't pay attention at first and just regarded them as normal marketing.
But in fact, Bazhenguan still tampered with the set meal.
On the face of it, the discount for the three-person set meal that includes the participating dishes is very small. The original price of the set meal is 288 yuan and only sells for 258 yuan after the discount. But in fact, through other secret channels, such as the city's internal discount group, internal discount public account, and internal discount APP, Bazhenguan has issued a large number of three-person discount packages that can be late at 68.
Although the method of cheating was very clever, it was still discovered by the program team and was disqualified from the competition.
The document contained a lot of nonsense. Jiang Feng almost scanned it at a glance to get a rough idea of what happened. At the end of the file is the current data of Bazhen Museum. The reason why Bazhen Museum uses this method to cheat orders is very simple. Their lottery results this time were very bad, and their points on the first day were very dismal, so they took the risk and used this method. He used various methods to swipe orders, but he was discovered just two days after swiping orders.
The current total points of Bazhen Hall is 1342 points.
The program team also thoughtfully provided a reference score, which is 972 points excluding Bazhenguan's double dish data in the past two days.
Jiang Feng:?
Normally you both have 972 points but you still brush up your points?
Brother, you are going a little too far.
Jiang Feng took one last look at the list of contestants from the Bazhen Restaurant announced by the program team. Two of them were very famous Cantonese chefs in the industry. This time, it could be said that they were all humiliated by the restaurant.
I just don’t know if when the show airs, the program team will tell them they cheated without showing any mercy at all, or they will show some respect and say that Bazhenkan has withdrawn due to something.
Although there was clearly one less competitor, Jiang Feng felt a little bit sad.
No matter how you put it, people with a score of 972 felt that they were going to lose, so they had no choice but to take risks, and at the same time cheated with impure thoughts. Those with a score of over 500 were obviously doomed.
"This time the Bazhen Hall has been greatly embarrassed." Sun Maocai said.
He and Sun Jikai are both Cantonese chefs, and they know the Cantonese food circle relatively well. They also basically know the chefs at Bazhen Restaurant, and their experience is much deeper than that of Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi.
"Their boss does like to be opportunistic and would cheat in this way. He must also think that the foreign program team cannot investigate so deeply. But if the situation is not really bad, he probably won't cheat in this way. "Sun Maocai sighed.
"I think there is something wrong with the competition system." Sun Jikai, who has been psychologically affected by the speculation in Niuhe these days, said, "When I first read the rules of the program, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Only when I compared it did I realize that this competition system has no foundation at all. There is a problem. There is too much uncertainty in drawing lots and it is not suitable for competition at all.”
"But after all, we submitted the menu ourselves." Wu Minqi said.
"But we know very well that no one has ten special dishes, and a restaurant may not be able to find ten best-selling dishes." Sun Jikai looked a little excited.
Sun Maocai nodded: "Indeed, the competition system is very problematic."
Jiang Feng also nodded in agreement.
Sure enough, participating in a variety show is completely different from watching a variety show. It is exactly the same variety show. When I saw Chef Arnold participating, I felt very happy and interesting. When I participated in it myself, I just wanted to kill the show crew.
Wait, Chef Arnold.
Jiang Feng felt as if he had been ignoring something.
"Qiqi, I remember you finished the first season of this reality show, right?" Jiang Feng turned to look at Wu Minqi.
"Ah?" Wu Minqi was stunned and didn't realize why Jiang Feng suddenly asked this. She nodded, "Yes, I...finished it."
"I remember you told me that this show became popular in the first season because Chef Arnold scolded the show team. Do you still remember why he scolded the show team?" Jiang Feng asked.
Wu Minqi said without hesitation: "Because there was a problem with the competition system set by the program team at the beginning, which was very unfair to the girl who was good at making desserts, so Chef Arnold got angry and cursed the program team halfway through the recording."
Wu Minqi thought for a while and added: "The program became popular later because the program team modified the competition system and re-competed the first game."
It can be said that there is a problem with the competition system of this show, which belongs to traditional entertainment.
Everyone suddenly realized what Jiang Feng meant.
"Fengfeng, what do you mean..."
Jiang Feng silently gave Chef Arnold a big thumbs up in his heart. If Chef Arnold hadn't set the precedent of scolding the show team and asking the show team to change the competition system, no one would have thought that a variety show could still be like this.
If there is a problem with the competition system, the problem should be solved from the root cause, such as solving the program team from the root cause.
"Didn't the program team leave us a phone number? This announcement was just sent out twenty minutes ago. They must not have gotten off work yet. Who is good at English? The communication will definitely be with people in the United States, and they must speak English. ." Jiang Feng raised his phone.
The three of them looked at Sun Jikai.
Sun Jikai:......
Sun Jikai could only take out his mobile phone and hesitated a little before making a call. After all, Jiang Feng was too wild, and he had never seen such an operation before.
"Is it useful? The rules of the competition are directly determined. As for the seven restaurants, it is impossible to change the rules temporarily." Sun Jikai felt that the call was useless.
"What are you afraid of? Isn't Chef Arnold participating in the competition? If we don't make a call, Chef Arnold will definitely scold him. It's okay. The show team is used to it." Jiang Feng encouraged.
Sun Jikai:?
In fact, Jiang Feng's guess was not wrong. The program team was indeed used to it.
Because Chef Arnold is cursing right now.
The kind that starts with shit. (End of chapter)