I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 111



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Episode 111

Because milk is also added to Minchofu.

Su-ah, the ghost of Mincho-pu, should have known.

“They say that milk supply may be difficult for the time being. So they may not be able to make Minchopu.”

“Ah! Why!?”

“There seems to be a problem with the milk supplier to the mart. Until that is resolved, that’s how it is.”

“Eek.”

Suah made a gloomy expression.

If someone saw me, they’d think I was a kid who lived for the taste of Mint Chocolate Frappuccino. Oh, that’s not a wrong statement.

Anyway, unfortunately, this wasn’t something I could solve.

“What’s going on at the farm?”

“I didn’t hear that.”

“Is the cow sick or something?”

“That could be the case.”

“Then you should go and make sure that he doesn’t get sick!”

“Yeah. That won’t work.”

How do I solve that?

He responded back to Su-ah’s words as if he was astonished.

Su-ah’s cheeks were puffed out again, but I wasn’t happy about it either. There were a lot of things to do in a cafe with milk.

‘Should I buy it at the mart?’

But then the quality is disappointing.

The ingredients received from Bonghwang Mart are not usually brought in in bulk, but rather seem to be brought in through direct contracts with farms.

So even though it didn’t have any effects, it was of almost top quality.

If you make it like that and then buy it from a regular mart, there might be a slight difference in taste… … .

“hmm.”

In addition, the fact that I received it from Bong Hwang Mart in the form of sponsorship was also a big factor because I didn’t have to pay any money separately.

After that, even when I told Grandpa Bae Hong-seok that it was okay, he always laughed and declined.

Instead, I asked them to provide a comfortable rest area for the customers who always come to the cafe.

That’s a given.

‘I don’t know what happened, but I hope it gets resolved.’

“So does that mean I won’t be able to drink lattes for a while?”

“Well, I guess that could be the case.”

At those words, both Han Song-i and Lee Seon-ah expressed regret. They were even more regretful because they were regular customers.

“I can’t eat anything else besides this.”

“That’s right. I went to town a while ago and went to a cafe to eat… … It wasn’t bad, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the drinks there.”

Then Su-ah suddenly got up and shouted.

“Sisters! Let’s go!”

“huh?”

“we?”

“Where?”

“Of course it’s the farm! Let’s go there and solve the problem!”

Wow… … That was really an idea that only a child could think of.

They said they would solve the delivery problem themselves.

It’s a story so absurd that it’s almost novel.

The problem is… … .

“I wonder?”

“Oh, content.”

The two adults agreed with that opinion.

No, but are these people serious?

Even if that’s true, Lee Seon-ah, why is Han Song-i like that? Is she not doing any work?

Sometimes it feels like I’m working day and night… … but somehow it seems like I have more time to play?

It’s not so bad considering how bad it was before, but it’s not like this.

“It’s one thing to know where you’re going, but what are you going to do once you get there?”

“You should think about it once you get there! Where is that place? Don’t do this, go now!”

Su-ah seemed really sincere.

And the other two too.

Oh, it was a mistake to send the village chief and Suho first.

If there were two of them, this runaway train would have evolved… … At least two of those three would have been caught and sent home.

But now I was the only one who could stop these people.

“Okay, everyone, calm down. I know you’re bored because it’s the weekend, but you can’t just go to someone else’s farm and do that. There’s a procedure, right? And if there’s a problem, and we just go and interfere, it’ll take longer to resolve the problem.”

First, I sat Su-ah down again after she had stood up. Then I tried to calmly persuade her.

But these people, their eyes are already a little… … .

“please.”

“What?”

“Number or address.”

“I don’t know that either.”

He shook his head at Hansong’s words.

I really didn’t know, not to be nitpicking. I didn’t ask Bae Jun-ho about that.

“I know!”

“Huh? How are you?”

But Su-ah raised her hand and shouted, “How does he know that?”

“I asked Grandpa Bae! Hehehe!”

“No, how did you and Grandpa Bae Hong-seok… … Ah.”

If it was Su-Ah, she would probably have a number.

Because he said he’d known me since my grandfather was alive.

I didn’t expect to find out right away like this…

“It’s even close.”

“why?”

Oh no, I blurted out something strange without realizing it.

Of course, Su-ah didn’t care.

“Because it’s close?”

“Oh! That’s great. Then let’s go right away!”

As Su-ah and Han-song-i got up, Lee Seon-ah also nodded and took out her camera one by one.

No, where does that come from? Or is it really going there?

“ha.”

… … I don’t know anymore. If you’re going to go, then go.

The three who had joined forces stood up from their seats.

Of course, I didn’t follow him, but just saw him off.

I have been opposing it all along, so is there really a need for me to come forward?

If Su-ah were alone, it might be different, but since there are two more adults, ‘for now’… … I guess things will work out somehow.

The three of them tried to get me to do it again, but after being rejected, they went outside to do it among themselves.

And came back late in the afternoon.

“Eek.”

Anyone who looked at him had a look of failure on their face.

* * *

I gave each of the disappointed people a cup of honey tea and heard the whole story.

To be exact, it was a complaint.

“They say there are complaints about the smell. But it really doesn’t smell.”

“The farm owners were very kind. They even gave me this.”

A complaint… … So you said there was a problem?

I’ve heard that livestock farming originally has a lot of such problems. I’ve never worked in a livestock farm or septic tank, but I’ve heard a lot about it.

One of my successors was a guy who had come in after doing related work.

Once a complaint is filed, an investigation is conducted, and if something is found during that time, a period of adjustment is given.

The explanation they gave was that since they couldn’t sell or do anything during that time, they obviously couldn’t supply milk.

Still, it seems he wasn’t treated coldly, because he brought a few cartons of freshly squeezed milk.

“Hmm~ This is delicious.”

As I tasted it little by little, I could definitely tell that freshly squeezed milk was more flavorful. It was also fresh.

That’s why it was even more regrettable.

“Did you say there was a complaint about the smell?”

“Yes. That’s what they said. But we didn’t go inside so we wouldn’t know.”

“Isn’t that because the people who live there and those who just stop by are different?”

“Is that so?”

Otherwise, why would I report it? There must be something wrong.

By the way, if the complaint is the problem, it will take longer than expected to be resolved?

Because rural administration can be slower than urban administration.

“Then I guess it will come from the nearby county office.”

“Huh? How do you know?”

“It happened often when I was working at the company. Oh, of course, it wasn’t the same thing, but it was similar. There were often complaints about construction noise and pollution, etc.”

Based on my experience at that time, it was easy to understand the situation.

Since civil complaints often cause difficulties once they are filed, they are not easily forgotten.

Because I had to put a lot of effort into it.

“Boss, you have a lot of interesting experiences, don’t you?”

“Huh? It was a new experience… … .”

If it’s a painful experience, I don’t know.

It’s about things that can’t be seen, like smells, noises, etc…

Well, now that I know this is the situation, I guess I should come up with some countermeasures.

First, we need to organize the menu items that contain milk.

“I only use bread that has already been made, and as for lattes… … it will last about a week.”

“Oh! Aren’t you going to make bread?”

“That’s right. Bread secretly drinks a lot of milk.”

Of course, I won’t just make a latte with more than half milk.

Anyway, if you want to reduce usage, it’s bread.

Because Tiger Shelter is more of a place to stop by for a drink rather than a bakery.

The people in front of you are regulars, so that’s why, but before they came here, there were definitely a lot of people who had somehow flowed in from out of town.

“huh?”

Just like now.

A person came up across the path.

He was a person with a dull aura.

“Who’s here…? Huh!? It’s that old man.” “Do you know him?”

“It’s the farm man!”

“The farm? Is that the one you visited earlier?”

“yes!”

The farm owner… … At Su-ah’s words, I looked at the empty lot again.

* * *

Yoo Seong-su ran a farm.

It wasn’t my original job.

I inherited the family business from my parents after they passed away.

I lived in the city all my school days, and it was the same after I graduated.

I came down here at the age of almost fifty. I had to give up my job and move from the city to the countryside to settle down.

Because of that, I wasn’t used to farm work.

However, it was quite rewarding to take over a family business that had been passed down for a long time.

Why didn’t I know this when I was young?

It’s a shame that I realized that only when I was middle-aged.

So I studied hard.

Farm work isn’t just about providing food. It’s more scientific and complex than you might think.

Fortunately, my wife helped me a lot and my parents took care of everything before leaving, so I was able to run the business somehow.

What was especially helpful were connections.

In business, this was inevitably important. No matter how good something is, if it isn’t distributed, it will rot.

Dairy products in particular are important every day, every single day, and since that problem was solved thanks to my parents, I just had to start maintaining it.

And that worked out pretty well.

No, to be exact, it was going well… …but not so much these days.

“Phew─.”

“What did the police say?”

As I sighed, my wife handed me some warm milk and asked,

Normally, this would have been enough to get rid of my worries about my children in the city, but… … today wasn’t like that.

“They said they couldn’t do anything because they had already received several complaints. They said they would definitely install a new odor reduction device and inspect it.”

“No, it hasn’t even been a week since I changed it, and now? I already paid the fine.”

“Huh… … I see. What’s the problem?”

“No, why on earth are you doing that when you didn’t even come out and check it yourself?”

My wife also sat down next to me, feeling frustrated. Then she snatched the milk I had given her and drank it herself.

It wasn’t like this when they first started complaining. They thought they had done something wrong because they were beginners.

So we brought in new equipment and did some research.

But this was already the number one complaint.

As complaints were repeated at the county office, they came to see us a few times at first, but now they don’t come and only notify us by phone.

The couple thought it was because they couldn’t tell what was wrong even if they looked at it themselves… … but at this point, even the couple began to suspect that the complaint might be malicious.

Anyway, that’s just the couple’s thoughts, and in the end, the fundamental problem was with the petition.

stink.

“Where on earth does this smell come from that doesn’t even come from inside the farm… … Please tell me who the complainant is and where they smelled it.”

Yoo Seong-su nodded as if he agreed with his wife’s words.

And the more I thought about it, the more I became speechless.

She was a wife who followed me because she believed in me. But instead of giving me a life of luxury, she made me suffer like this.

In addition, the business was suspended due to this complaint.

“How are your business partners?”

“They say Phoenix Mart will wait… … but we don’t have any plans.”

If even the business relationships that your parents built up are cut off, it becomes really difficult.

That’s why I had to change it back to the original before.

“Oh, right. Where did the girls and the woman who came earlier come from?”

“I think you said it was a cafe that received supplies from Phoenix Mart? Or was it called Tiger Shelter?”

“Instead of doing this, how about going there first? I heard that the milk supply there has been cut off… … .”

“ah.”

Anyway, I couldn’t just sit back and do nothing.

Nothing will change if I just sit still, so I have to do something.

“Okay, let’s do that. Let’s go and apologize or explain the situation, or do something.”

Those words made my decision.

Although we have already made contact, let’s go back to our business partners and somehow seek an apology and understanding so that we can hold out a little longer.

That was better than just sitting there and watching business relationships break off.

I don’t know if this will help… …but right now I have to grab onto straws.

and.

‘I should stop by that cafe too.’

I’m sure you’ve already told the story at Phoenix Mart, but anyway, it was their fault that they were the ones who got hurt.

If it’s a far place or you don’t know about it, you might not know, but if not, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to visit them in person and say hello.

At least for now, I can convey my true feelings.

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