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Chapter 22 - Monster Burger

Luck smiled as he remembered the events of the morning.

This time the manager of the Burger Quenn store came to deliver the frozen hamburger ingredients.

"Mr Luck, it's a pleasure to see you!" The manager was already praising Luck as soon as he got out of the car.

"It's a pleasure to see you too, sir." Luck shook the man's outstretched hand.

Luck looked at the refrigerated truck and said, "You brought everything I asked for, didn't you?"

The manager nodded his head like a chicken. "Yes, Mr Luck we have enough frozen food for 300 servings."

Luck nodded approvingly took a bundle of money out of his pocket and handed it to the manager.

"Let's keep this transaction between us, okay, no one else knows about it."

Hypnotized by the banknotes Luck handed him, the manager could do whatever Luck wanted at that moment.

"My lips are sealed, Mr Luck." Looking at the thousands of dollars in his hand, the manager was in awe.

When Luck had an idea, he stopped the manager who turned to leave with his money.

"Sir, do you have a minute?" 

The man, who did not expect Luck to call him, turned towards Luck curiously.

"Yes, Mr. Luck?"

"Would you be interested if I made you an offer?"

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Although he had brought more food this time than yesterday, his stocks were still not enough for the people waiting in line to eat hamburgers.

Customers with hamburgers in their hands left the shop satisfied, while people who had realized some time ago that they would not be able to buy hamburgers left the shop swearing in their hearts that they would buy hamburgers the next day.

Luck, having learned from the previous day, constantly monitored his food stocks and warned all his customers when his stocks were about to run out.

"Boss, we've run out of everything today too," Liam said tiredly but happily.

Luck put his hand on Liam's shoulder and said, "You must be tired, you can leave when Can and Devi are done."

"But boss, the shop needs to be cleaned..."

Luck waved his hand as if to say never mind. "The cleaning guys will be here soon, you can go and rest."

Liam returned to the kitchen without further protesting to Luck and left after cleaning the kitchen with his other two friends.

After a while, Horace came in with a middle-aged woman to clean the shop.

...

Lying tiredly on his bed at home, Luck was still smiling contentedly.

Remembering the woman who came to work in his shop, Luck said, "It was very good that the woman Horace brought could do both cleaning and cashiering." 

The woman's name was Lori Navi. Since she had previously worked in a nobleman's mansion, she was familiar with both cleaning and bookkeeping.

Luck groaned with fatigue, "Even if the salary will be a little more because he will do two jobs, it's okay, at least I won't be so tired."

As Luck's eyes closed with fatigue, he woke up to the message sound.

DING!

-A new message from Albert Mavric!-

-Mr Luck, I found a shop like you want, but the rent is a bit expensive. -

Reading the message, Luck's eyes suddenly cleared of sleep.

-The rent is not important, if the shop is in a central location, rent it immediately.

After a short while, a reply came from Albert.

-Agreed Mr. Luck, also your order of 500 frozen food for tomorrow will be there at the same time.

Seeing the last message from Albert, Luck was convinced that he might have made the right decision.

Albert Mavric, the former manager of the Burger Quenn branch was now working for him. 

When Luck asked Albert to quit his job and work for him and open a hamburger shop, Albert hesitated, but when Luck offered him the money he would earn at Burger Quenn in 2 years as his annual salary, he accepted Luck's offer without hesitation.

After all, they say there is no door that money cannot open.

The main reason why Luck offered Albert to open a hamburger shop was that Albert managed to become a manager at Burger Quenn.

A person who manages to become a manager at Burger Quenn must be a knowledgeable person in the hamburger business unless he becomes a manager through nepotism.

And Luck needed someone with that kind of experience, both for the burger shop he had opened in Gliese and for the burger shop he was going to open in his world.

...

The next day.

As Albert watched the bags of frozen food being carried one by one to Luck's house, he wondered what Luck was doing with all that frozen food, but he didn't ask Luck anything.

After all, sticking his nose into other people's business was not going to do him any good; on the contrary, he might even lose his new lucrative job if he angered Luck, who was now his boss.

"Can you show me the photos of this shop?" Luck asked curiously.

"Sure, Mr Luck." Albert immediately took the phone out of his pocket and started to show Luck the photos he had taken last night one by one.

When he saw the photos of the shop, Luck said approvingly: "The shop looks very good, but why is such a place empty?

The shop is two stories high and in the middle of a busy road, normally shops in such a location never fail or close.

"Mr Luck, when the previous tenant of this shop was killed by loan sharks because he lost too much money gambling, the shop suddenly became empty and luckily we stepped in before anyone had a chance to rent it."

"So someone else's misfortune became our fortune."

Albert nodded, "Yes, that's right, Mr Luck."

Luck looks at the photos again and says, "You can adjust the decoration as you see fit, also rent a warehouse and send the frozen food there from now on."

Albert was surprised that Luck still wanted frozen food and said "We can prepare our own ingredients, no need to buy from outside Mr Luck."

Thinking for a moment, Luck decided that Albert was right, he could sell the hamburgers he prepared in Gliese.

"You're right, we'll prepare our ingredients, I'll bring the meat to be used in the hamburgers, but you can still rent a warehouse and stock it with the frozen food we prepare. The food in the warehouse will be reserved for my personal business..."

Although he wondered what Luck was going to do with all that frozen food for his personal business, Albert again chose to remain silent.

"Drop me the location of the shop and I'll bring the first batch of meat for our hamburgers tonight." He said and started on his way home.

When he noticed Luck moving to return to his house, Albert asked the only question on his mind "Mr Luck what will be the name of the shop?"

Luck paused as he took the step, he had never thought about it before, but when he immediately thought of the star monsters he would use in his burgers, he came up with a name for his shop.

"The Monster Burger."