A batch of steaming thin-skinned buns was ready. Heath clapped his hands in satisfaction and took a bite. They tasted excellent, and Heath thought his cooking was pretty good. But watching Snorlax swallow them one after another, he could not help letting out a long sigh. Luckily, he had already prepared Snorlax's feed. Otherwise, he really did not know whether he could afford to keep this big fellow.
Heath remembered that Snorlax used to have a very low capture rate. For one thing, Snorlax were relatively rare and somewhat harder to catch than ordinary Pokémon. The other main reason was that Snorlax ate far too much. Without a wealthy family background, there really was no way to meet a Snorlax's daily nutritional needs.
But after feed made specifically for Snorlax appeared, their capture rate and frequency of appearance increased considerably. Many trainers from ordinary backgrounds were very short on funds.
The Pokémon League had also introduced some benefits to address this issue. For example, Pokémon Centers took on the task of providing trainers with something like part-time jobs.
Of course, the prerequisite was that the trainer held a Trainer Card rather than being a member of a criminal organization. Although members of criminal organizations who held Trainer Cards could also take these jobs, as long as the League had not grown suspicious of them or discovered evidence of their crimes.
Heath smiled as he watched the Pokémon eagerly munching their buns, then took out his menu board and wrote [Today's special: thin-skinned buns] on it. Curry remained his main offering. Although the people of Pallet Town did not like curry noodles, curry rice sold fairly well.
Heath drove his food truck to Nurse Joy's Pokémon Center. Converted from a run-down shop, it could be considered the most modest Pokémon Center