Chapter 1559 - Hungry Takeout, Tesnack, and Smart People

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After talking to Jenny, Luke found Aunt May the next day.

Aunt May, who often helped out at the shelter, suddenly became the person in charge of the first shop to participate in the Hungry Takeout service.

The name of the shop was plain and simple: Clinton’s Tesnack (Tasty Snacks).

The name was more festive when Tesnack was read out in Chinese: Heavenly Food Welcomes Guests.

The phone company sent two lawyers to specially handle the formalities for the shop’s opening.

As the person in charge, Aunt May just needed to follow along.

They would hire managers as needed once the shop expanded.

At that time, Aunt May would become a supervisor or a board member of the charity foundation, and would be able to supervise the work or handle specific matters.

Naturally, she would oversee the fast food made by the foundation’s shop.

The main thing was that Aunt May was very concerned about little Peter and wouldn’t give up on taking care of him to turn into a career woman.

Thus, a supervisory role with flexible hours was more suitable for her.

Aunt May was honest and not greedy, and was more suited for doing the actual work than managing the shop.

After the shop was set up and employees were hired, a test run was carried out for a few days.

The food made was supplied to the relief shelter, the renovation company and the freight company, and these “close contacts” were used as guinea pigs.

Luke didn’t ask for much from the shop: Hygiene and quality had to be maintained at all times, and he would decide on the final taste samples.

When it came to fast food, there was nothing to say about taste.

Most famous old establishments had their own special sauce configurations.

They were classified as secret recipes.

As for the content of things like sandwiches and burgers, there wasn’t much of a difference.

As long as there was quality control and they didn’t use rotten substitutes, they could at least come up with a higher-end product.

The old stores may strictly guard their secret recipes, but that didn’t prevent food experts relying on their taste buds and experience to reproduce something that was 70 to 80% similar.

With a little more effort, it wasn’t impossible to invent new recipes on the same level.

That was how many specialty stores started.

Luke didn’t have to do that at all.

Many of the people he killed had Basic Cooking skills.

When prodded, Daddy System would list out the ingredients in the sauce or marinade mix.

Basic Cooking only cost 100 credit points.

Now, Luke just needed to switch around among these Basic Cooking skills to examine special sauce configurations and then input them into Little Snail’s database so that the A.I. could continue testing them out on the

kitchenware at home.

Luke, Selina and Gold Nugget did the tasting.

They finished the good ones, while the bad ones… were finished by Gold Nugget.

For the time being, the test run used Luke’s “exclusive secret recipe.”

The surplus secret recipes could be used to enrich his own depository of recipes as well as backup trump cards for when the shop expanded in the future.

Titanium Phone Company was now a big patron of various official organizations in New York, and its annual fixed donations totaled more than 10 million.

The Clinton Charity Foundation was also somewhat well-known in New York.

There really weren’t many people who would fork out money for nothing in return, just to help preserve stability in New York.

But that didn’t mean that the Clinton Charity Foundation was easy to mess with.

Conversely, the foundation already “ruled” Clinton.

As long as it wanted to, it could absolutely “summon” thousands of residents of the Clinton area to make trouble for the authorities in New York.

With the cooperation of both parties, all the formalities were processed without a hitch.

The next day, even the mayor, Mike Soderberg, personally asked about the shop and said that he strongly supported the development of local businesses.

Luke knew that Mike Soderberg could see which way the wind was blowing.

A simple fast food shop wasn’t a big deal. It would already be pretty good if a small to mid-sized shop could create 30 to 50 jobs.

But this fast food shop was the first collaborative test run of a food order and delivery service, which could create more jobs.

Soderberg knew Americans too well. People did their best to slack off.

ff they could order fast food over the phone and have it delivered to their place, that was definitely more attractive than going out to get it themselves.

utting on a show, he even used his phone to order takeout for his staff.

He then realized that the Hungry Takeout app gave him 10% back in credit in the name of promoting sales and getting feedback.

The credit would go into his next order.

When the order was made, there was also a notification about the estimated time of delivery and a reminder about the delivery range.

According to the notification, food would be delivered in 30 minutes at the most.

If the order would take more than 30 minutes to deliver, the shop wouldn’t take the order.

In other words, most orders would be delivered in a time range of ten to 20 minutes. After all, it was improbable that all the orders would come from the largest delivery range.

If New York eateries participated in this food delivery app, anyone would be able to get takeout in ten to 20 minutes.

Also, customers who ordered could rate the shop and the delivery service separately from 1 to 5 stars.

The average of these ratings would then be publicly displayed after the name of the shop and the delivery company.

Mayor Soderberg, who had been a businessman, immediately realized the implications.

This 5-star rating system was very direct.

There was only one shop and one delivery company right now, but when more came on board, they would need to rely on customer ratings if they wanted more people to choose them.

With enough time and customers, the good and bad comments would inevitably get closer and closer to the actual situation.

Pondering for a moment, Mayor Soderberg called his cousin. “Jeffrey, are you free tonight? I have something to discuss with you. No, it’s business.”

He hung up and took a deep breath.

Looking at the food delivery app and Titanium Phone Company’s attitude, he smelled money.

It was also the smell of political success.

Statistics also figured into political achievements, and one of them was the employment rate.

This delivery service was clearly a new industry that could generate jobs.

n essence, the more convenient this delivery service was, the more people would be willing to pay for it.

ff there were a million people in New York who didn’t want to waste time every day, at least tens of thousands of delivery staff would be required to meet the demand.

tt wasn’t a small number.

Also, the initial business investment wasn’t large, and the profits weren’t bad. It could increase his political portfolio, and he could let his cousin handle it.

Luke didn’t know that in just two days, smart people had appeared.

However, he knew that there were a lot of smart people like these around; if it wasn’t Soderberg, it would be someone else.

As long as Soderberg didn’t want to meddle directly, it was fine..