Universe Infinite Canteen

Chapter 384 Guest Reward Event

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The effects of this herbal dietary meal are just too immediate!

Ma Lu couldn't help but feel overjoyed. He had been struggling to find a balance between weight and gastronomic pleasure, never imagining the two could be compatible.

Being able to indulge in delicious food while losing weight, is there anything more delightful in the world?

In comparison, the gym, where you pay to suffer, causes you to sweat buckets for half a month, only for a couple of barbecue meals to erase all that hard work.

The Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cake is simply the best gift from heaven for gluttons who don't want to exercise.

Old Wang seems to have created another remarkable dish.

Although the Deliciousness Index of the Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cake itself is only ★★, with half a star added by Old Wang's upgrade in his Chef level.

Yet Ma Lu felt an acute sense of 'better late than never.'

However, after reveling in the greatness of the Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cake, he asked Old Wang a crucial question.

"I remember the dry lotus leaves I brought back are less than fifty kilograms, right? How many Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cakes can that make?"

"Dry lotus leaves will lose some weight when calcined into lotus leaf ash, but it only takes 40 grams of lotus leaf ash to make one Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cake. The dry lotus leaves you brought back can make about 300 Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cakes.

This number was a bit more than Ma Lu had expected, but if they were to sell them, they could probably only serve about 50 per day.

Moreover, Ma Lu needed to reserve enough for his own use, which meant even fewer would be available for sale.

Even so, after contemplating for a moment, he resolutely decided to introduce the Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cake to the menu that very week.

Because he was not only the boss of Universe Infinite Canteen but also, as a patron who has indulged in too many feasts and developed a pot belly, he could deeply empathize with many people's conflicting desires when faced with delicious food they wanted to eat but were afraid to eat too much of.

The appearance of the Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cake was meant to liberate those who, like him, could only enjoy gastronomic pleasures with a sense of guilt.

Having the remedy in hand, how could Ma Lu bear to watch sentient beings continue to suffer?

Nevertheless, considering the limited supply of Lotus Leaf Charcoal Cakes, he planned to sell them in a different way this time.

"Feel guilty about what?" Boss Hu was becoming increasingly perplexed.

"I know, I know," a stylishly dressed female diner chimed in from the side. "I always feel a strong sense of guilt when I eat because, well, I'm just too fat. Boss, can I have an Atonement Cake?"

Ma Lu looked her up and down; she didn't seem fat at all, her arms even thinner than average, so he shook his head and said, "No, you should eat more nutritious things instead."

"How about me?" Another man carrying a briefcase, a white-collar worker, asked from behind her.

Ma Lu looked at his beer belly and replied without hesitation, "You can, go ahead."

"Fantastic," the white-collar worker said, delighted at the news.

Some of the newcomers had already been stunned by the scene.

What kind of strange scenario is this? Buying a cake, and yet a cake that costs almost seven hundred yuan required the owner's approval.

Meanwhile, the clever regulars had already detected a hint of something unusual. Ma Lu had indeed many shortcomings and was fond of quirky moves, but miraculously, he never messed up.

And most importantly, no matter how bizarre his brags were, they always ended up coming true.

Moreover, in advertising, he never touted falsehoods. If he said it was a time-limited offer, it indeed was, and he would still update the menu on time every week, regardless of how well the items sold.

So when he said the opportunities were scarce this time, it truly meant they were scarce.

As a result, everyone, including Boss Hu, lined up to be vetted by Ma Lu and ordered the Atonement Cake. In a short while, all forty Atonement Cakes were snapped up.

However, when the cake was finally served, many were still taken aback.

By appearance, it looked a plain rice cake. Upon taking a bite, aside from a hint of lotus leaf flavor and a peculiar bitterness, there didn't seem to be anything special about it.

You couldn't say it tasted bad, after all, it was Old Wang's product, so it certainly tasted much better than whatever was outside. But in a side-by-side comparison, it was not as good as other dishes in the restaurant. The most crucial point was that this thing cost 688 yuan a serving, more expensive than this week's featured dish.

Those who ordered didn't feel redeemed; instead, they felt like they'd been fooled by some con artist.

Ma Lu knew what they were thinking and pointed to the body fat scale in the corner, "Remember to weigh yourself before eating and you can weigh again after to compare. You'll thank me," he said.

The crowd was skeptical, and one person said, "Boss, you haven't tampered with your scale, have you? I see a lot of rigged scales nowadays."

"If you don't trust it, feel free to find another scale and weigh yourself," Ma Lu said with a shrug.