Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!

“Mm.” Cindy Clarke nodded, “But they haven’t notified us about when the next round will be, although I assume they’ll probably notify us tomorrow.”

Adrian Zhekova wouldn’t know when they will be notified unless he asked Billy Houston; the competition organizers wouldn’t bother him with such small details.

“Then I’ll ask later.” Lyke Zhekova chimed in.

Seeing Adrian Zhekova’s lips twitch, it was apparent he was still present and felt usurped.

How could Lyke, as an uncle, go over Adrian’s head to ask questions for Cindy?

Seeing Adrian’s reaction, Lyke immediately explained, “I was just thinking that I would attend the next round of the competition too.”

“You two kept it such a secret before that I had no idea,” Lyke grumbled, “You both went to watch Cindy’s competition without informing me, and I’ve never been to one.”

Adrian Zhekova then explained, “Second Uncle and Third Uncle also didn’t know.”

“At the very beginning of Cindy’s competition, we were just acquaintances and hadn’t started dating yet,” Adrian clarified.

“We started dating after that, but we didn’t announce it until after we were married, and only our family knew,” said Adrian.

“Later the competitions were paused due to holidays, so we thought we would wait until New Year’s when the elders were all here to introduce you all at once,” Adrian mentioned.

Lyke waved his hand dismissively, “Anyway, I’m thinking that I never had a chance to support Cindy’s competition in person before, so I must go and support her no matter what.”

Aria Evans said these words too.

Although it was not exactly the same, the meaning was the same.

Cindy didn’t have any Clarke family members to support her at the competition, but she had the Zhekova family there.

With the support of her relatives, Cindy felt exceptionally warm.

Having her relatives to support her on-site won’t make her nervous, but rather motivate her.

Cindy then told Lyke, “Then, when we get the notice, I’ll let you know immediately.”

“Oh, very well,” Lyke happily agreed.

“Since it’s rare for us to gather like this today, why don’t I cook a couple of dishes for Third Grandpa and Fourth Uncle?” proposed Cindy.

Cindy didn’t suggest cooking an entire table of dishes.

She just thought of cooking two or three dishes for Third Old Master Zhekova and Fourth Uncle to try.

According to the Old Madam, if you make too many dishes, it would seem unsuitable.@@novelbin@@

As if she came specifically to work.

Although Third Old Master Zhekova and Lyke definitely would not see it this way.

If Cindy were to cook an entire table of dishes, perhaps Third Old Master Zhekova and Lyke would feel awkward.

For this visit, it was their first contact with Third Old Master Zhekova and Lyke the Fourth Uncle.

Naturally, Cindy and Adrian Zhekova also prepared gifts.

Now that she’s cooking two or three dishes, it also serves as a gift.

Upon hearing this, Third Old Master Zhekova and Lyke were interested and looked forward to Cindy’s cooking.

Although they hadn’t watched Cindy’s competition before,

They didn’t specifically watch the live broadcast or replay of the competition since they didn’t know about Cindy and Adrian’s relationship at that time,

Still, after all, the industry that the Pingla Group is involved in is exactly related to this.

Even if they don’t watch the replay, they would still pay attention to the news about the Cooking Competition.

Notably the distinguishable and eye-catching contestants, they’d be specifically clipped out.

Even if they are upper management, they would watch too.

For these outstanding contestants, if they have potential and can continue to progress, they will keep observing.

Then in the future, they will inject new blood into Restaurants under Pingla Corp.

And naturally, Cindy has her clipping as well.

Lyke has seen it.

Of course, Lyke saw Cindy’s culinary skills.

“That’s excellent indeed,” Lyke stated, “For every contestant that performed exceptionally well in every iteration of the Cooking Competition, the organizers would clip a video and pass it to us to watch.”

“If someone is particularly outstanding, the group will follow up. If we ascertain that they are suitable, we will hire them for Restaurants under Pingla Corp,” said Lyke.

“How many people have been selected up until now?” Cindy asked curiously.

Now she doesn’t need to fret about being invited like previous contestants.

As long as she wants, she can go to any Restaurant under Pingla Corp. for further study.

Quire, Eastco Resto, any of them.

She could even open an independent restaurant.

However, Cindy was quite curious about how many people Pingla has chosen.

“Actually, not many, in all these years, there’s been just Michael Greene and Eastco Resto’s chef, Kyle Falls,” Lyke clarified.

The head chefs of other restaurants were all selected through competition.

There are graduates from the Academy under Pingla and those who came from other restaurants.

Mainly, Quire and Eastco Resto, these two Star-rated Restaurants, although they have branches, the branches have not been awarded any stars.

As for the main ones, they were long occupied by Michael Greene and Kyle Falls.

New recruits can come in, but it’s somewhat difficult for them to replace those two.

In other restaurants, top students from the Academy under Pingla were proud and unwilling to go.

Ordinary students can’t enter either.

Only a few with a good mentality managed to get in.

Those who were genuinely valued and personally invited by the Pingla Group are scarce.

Although the Cooking Competition is held every year, there are not many who have received invitations from the Pingla Group.

“I’ve watched previous iterations of the Cooking Competition,” said Cindy, “there were many outstanding contestants, why didn’t Pingla invite them?”

It wasn’t as if there weren’t enough restaurants.

There are countless Restaurants under Pingla Corp., if they were to make some arrangements, they would have enough places.

Even if there are not enough, given Pingla’s longstanding tendency to cherish talent, adopting the principle that as long as it’s a talent recognized by Pingla, they will never let it go.

To open a new restaurant specifically for a talent, Pingla is capable of doing it.

“What we’re looking for is not just the current outstanding performance,” explained Lyke, “We need a full-scale examination and study of the contestants, to see their potential.”

“If they’re doing excellently now, but they’ve already reached their potential and will make no further progress no matter how much they develop, then we won’t take them,” added Lyke.

“What we’re looking for is someone who is outstanding now and has the potential for continuous development, whose future prospects are immeasurable. Then, Pingla will provide a considerable proposition and even spend big money to continue nurturing them,” Lyke expounded.

Continue nurturing means that the talents valued by Pingla may not bring any benefit to Pingla in the short term.

Pingla is looking at long-term benefits.

Naturally, Pingla would sign a contract with them to ensure the company’s interest.

To avoid having them run off after nurturing them, thus making a wedding dress for someone else; this is definitely something Pingla won’t do.