After obtaining the right to use the gym, Jiang Yu's plan was to have it operational after the National Day holiday. Now there's less than a week left until the National Day, plus the 7-day holiday, the timeline is a bit tight, so preparation must start immediately.

The next day, before breakfast time had ended, Jiang Yu brought Hu Zhihai, Lu Shuwu, and a tall, kind-looking middle-aged man to the gym again, ready to plan the renovation of the new dining hall.

This middle-aged man is the head chef of the second dining hall, surnamed Duan, and is someone Jiang Yu has known before.

Jiang Yu previously wasn't a chef and never worked in a large kitchen, so he was definitely unfamiliar with the layout planning of a dining hall kitchen.

To avoid any oversight during the renovation planning process, he invited Chef Duan over this time to offer his guidance.

Chef Duan has worked in restaurants and is currently also working in a school dining hall, so he's very familiar with dining hall kitchen layouts. Having him guide them is certainly better than having Jiang Yu and a few outsiders blindly guess.

Jiang Yu led the group into the gym, and upon entering, they noticed it was already quite different from a few days ago.

All kinds of fitness equipment on the first floor of the gym had been completely moved out. Boss He is quite nice, after moving things out, he had the interior and exterior of the gym cleaned up thoroughly, leaving a clean space instead of a room full of trash.

"This person is great, easy to deal with."

Hu Zhihai looked around as he entered and said with a smile,

"Making this place so clean saved us a lot of work."

Lu Shuwu followed in, nodded, and said,

"This boss is indeed good, I've seen many landlords online complaining that tenants leave trash after moving out, doing such things really spoils their reputation."

"Alright, let's save the other chit-chat for later."

Actually, Jiang Yu had been here once yesterday afternoon after receiving the keys, and had already checked the arrangement of the place.

The entire space layout of the gym was clear. The first floor had a big fitness area, along with a reception area, a yoga room, two changing rooms, and two bathrooms, and nothing else.

He glanced around, turning to Hu Zhihai and Lu Shuwu,

"The renovations here are still quite new, the walls are clean and painted in a light, bright yellow, which I think is quite nice.

Moreover, the floor is also tiled, we only need to remove the PVC floor covering from the top, there's no need to refurbish it entirely.

What do you think?"

Lu Shuwu nodded, saying, "Mmm, since the gym was renovated, there haven't been many students visiting, so even though it's been a few years, it's still quite new. I think there's no need to spend money on refurbishing."

"Uh, I was originally planning to make this dining hall a bit special, make other schools' students jealous!"

Hu Zhihai, after listening to Jiang Yu and Lu Shuwu's words, couldn't help but lift his head, scratching it with a helpless look, he said,

"However, since you both feel there's no need for big efforts, then we won't. We'll just hire a small construction team to set up a kitchen."

Jiang Yu looked at Chef Duan, smiling,

"Master Duan, in terms of the dining hall, you're an expert, you have to offer us plenty of advice."

"My main job is cooking, the renovation of dining halls isn't my forte."

Chef Duan waved his hand modestly, smiling, he said,

"I personally think the dining area just needs to be clean, tidy, with a reasonable flow design that makes diners feel comfortable, no need for overly fancy stuff. It's already better than several existing school dining halls."

"Yes, Master Duan's words make sense. We'll put aside the dining area for now. Next, let's discuss and decide on the kitchen planning and layout to make it more reasonable."

Jiang Yu nodded, turned around walking inside while looking back and laughing,

"Master Duan, kitchen layout planning is your specialty, you'll have to guide us thoroughly."

"No problem at all!"

Hu Zhihai and Lu Shuwu quickly followed suit.

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After spending an entire morning, Jiang Yu and the others, with Chef Duan's assistance, finally planned the rough layout of the kitchen.

To avoid any mistakes during construction, Hu Zhihai specifically found a junior female student from the School of Architecture and Design, to draw the kitchen renovation plan they had discussed.

Of course, the student didn't charge for drawing, she just received a dinner invitation from Jiang Yu, which made her cheerful all day long.

After the kitchen renovation plan was drawn up, that afternoon, Hu Zhihai brought in a construction team and started the construction.

There's only less than half a month left, and to build a dining hall kitchen in such a short time, the timeline is indeed tight.

Hu Zhihai even stopped going to the library, except for meal times at the second dining hall, he spent all other time at the gym supervising to prevent the workers from cutting corners.

Jiang Yu wasn't idle either, apart from managing the small shop at the second dining hall that needed regular operation, he was busy purchasing many items for the new dining hall.

Of course, the tables and chairs for the dining area, and the large equipment in the kitchen like refrigerators, freezers, ovens, and electric steamers would be handled by Hu Zhihai. Jiang Yu only need to purchase small kitchen utensils like cookware.

While the space was settled, staffing was more troublesome.

"Boss, should I help you find some people?"

Seeing Jiang Yu worried over staffing for the new dining hall, Lu Shuwu, while wrapping soup dumplings, said,

"Several big hotel chefs here in Jiangzhou have worked under my grandfather, and are quite close with my family. They've been working in Jiangzhou for several years, and they definitely know more chefs and pastry chefs than you and I.

If the boss needs help, I can talk to them and ask them to recommend some good people."

"Let's wait for now, we don't have a place to host them right now."

Jiang Yu glanced at him, waving his hand, he said,

"If they come and see a small booth in a school dining hall, they might turn around and leave annoyed.

For the new dining hall, it won't be officially open until after the National Day. Let's wait during this period, if absolutely necessary, we'll consider staffing after it's open."

Finding part-time students for washing dishes and miscellaneous tasks isn't complex, close to opening we can ask the student union for a few diligent and honest students from poor backgrounds, the tricky part is skilled pastry chefs and cooking chefs.

If we temporarily can't find anyone, we'll just have to work a bit harder ourselves.

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