The head chef asked the waiter as he walked toward the dining room.
The waiter said softly, "I-I think it was all of them."
The head chef stopped and looked at him. "All of them? What do you mean?"
"I mean, hardly any of the dishes were touched. They didn't even eat a third of each dish."
"How is that possible?" the head chef asked in surprise.
Nothing like this had happened since the restaurant opened.
"They only ate a lot of rice."
"Oh, right. They also ate half the fruit platter."
The head chef: "..."
The head chef and waiter arrived at the dining room. One look at the dishes on the table confirmed that they had barely been touched.
The head chef's eyelid twitched. What was going on?!
He quickly walked over, picked up a clean pair of chopsticks, and sampled every dish.
"What's going on?"
"There's nothing wrong with any of these dishes."
The waiter tasted them too and said in confusion, "Chef, the dishes you made are delicious."
The head chef frowned. "Then why did this happen?"
After thinking for a while, the waiter said, "Could it be that the guests at this table weren't very hungry? Maybe they only came here to discuss business?"
That was possible. Situations like that were common. Their private chef was tucked away in a secluded location, making it ideal for business discussions.
But discussing business did not stop people from eating, especially with such delicious food right in front of them.
The head chef glanced at the wooden rice bucket. It was completely empty.
"If they weren't hungry, why did they finish all the rice?"
The head chef could not make sense of it. He scanned the entire table and noticed that the food in all five lunch boxes