To See My Mother Happy
After a few more days Jake began his training to run the marathon, in the first week he intended to run 10 km and then increase 10 km after each week, so after a month he would be ready to run a marathon.
The system said that Jake could run up to 50 km with his current resistance statistic, but the speed would be less than average to run a marathon with chances to win.
With that Jake figured he could run fast enough to win for 30 km, so he would need to use a stamina bar and could finish the marathon with energy after all his problem was that his muscles could not withstand the distance and intensity of the race.
If he ran for 50 km at medium speed then his muscles would have to be able to run for 45 km at a slightly higher speed, so first, he could put his body in a position to withstand the intensity of the race and the great distance.
As he wanted to do this correctly he asked the school to open the athletic field for him to run on the track, Jake thought it might be harder to do the 50 km on a track that was circular so he had to make turns than on the normal road.
As Jake was the star of the basketball team and the school president liked him they allowed him to use the track for 5 hours the day the athletic team was not using the track.
On the first day of training as he was not running in a hurry he made the 10 km in 50 minutes after he finished training he did not feel too tired and felt he could run for longer and faster.
But he decided that it was better to increase his stamina by the few, so on the second day of training he managed to run in 45 minutes the 10 km, he felt he could intensify and on the third day he did in 40 minutes the 10 km.
With that time he began to feel more tired, on the fourth day he did in 35 minutes the 10 km so he felt that he was very tired, as the training was not for only 10 km but for a marathon he felt that this intensity was enough.
So when he finished the 7 days he could easily make the 10 km in 35 minutes, he felt that if he wanted he could improve, but it was time to move on to the 20 km race day.
On the first day he decreased the intensity of the race and made in 80 minutes the 20 km, he felt a little tired more thought he could intensify so he ran the 20 km in 70 minutes on the second day, this time he became much more tired.
So Jake decided that this training was intense enough so that the 7 days he could easily make the 20 km in 70 minutes, Jake was satisfied that it was so because he still did not need any stamina bar with that distance and at that speed.
This showed that his body was much tougher than in the past, but he could not continue with this training for now because another day would be the false opening of the restaurant and would also be the day when he would tell that this restaurant was Eva's, so he needed to talk to Anna better today.
As Jake needed to train and did not want his mother to suspect that he was doing anything while he was training in those two weeks Anna was doing her part in the plan this week.
Jake felt Eva was a little strange at home this week, but she did not tell him why she was like this, Jake figured it had something to do with their plan, but Jake held it today to go to Anna's house to see what was happening.
When Jake got to Anna's house she opened the door and looked tired, not weeks ago, so Jake was sure it had something to do with her mother this week.
"Has anything happened in those weeks, Anna? Something went wrong with our plan?"
"While nothing has happened to the plan, I can tell you it was better than I expected, but I suffered a lot this week to make it work."
"Did you suffer? What do you mean by that?"
So Anna started to tell what happened this week, according to their plan. Anna would take Eva to the restaurant and say she would have been working in that bout in a few months, so she would invite Eva into the fake restaurant opening where Jake would say that The owner of the restaurant was actually Eva.
But before Anna started with the plan she had to improvise, this was because as the day when she would have to start working in the restaurant was near Anna had to end the cooking classes.
Besides some people Anna planned to invite to work in the restaurant she was not very close to anyone other than Eva, and it was the same with Eva.
But that's when the problem began, some of the women who were taking the course told Eva that the course would close, Anna had not said anything to Eva yet because she would personally go to her house to start with the plan.
So Eva who loved the course was anxious and went to Anna's house to ask about it personally so Anna decided to start with the plan ahead of time and said she would start working again in a restaurant and that she would talk to Eva in person and even taking her to know where Anna would work.
When Eva knew that Anna would start working at a restaurant was when she started getting weird at home was what Jake was thinking, so Anna took Eve to the restaurant and showed her everything, and so said the restaurant would open in a few weeks and that Eve was invited to appear on opening day.
Until then Anna and Jake's plan was perfect, but Eva, besides saying that she was going to say something neither of them expected, she asked Anna to talk to the owner of the restaurant to give her some work.
It seemed like Jake said and Eva is very willing to work after Jake got older, but Eva knew that Jake would not let her work in a place to earn a little, so Eva decided to ask Anna to work with her, Eva could give the excuse to Jake that she wanted to work with Anna.
Since this was out of their plans, Anna did not know what to say, but she could not say not because Eva was very hopeful about getting this job, so the only thing Anna could say was that she would talk to the owner on opening day and introduce Eva to the owner.
So Eva agreed to go on opening day, but she was a bit sad because she thought it was as if Anna had indirectly rejected her, so Jake understood why Anna and Eva were strange this week.
Even though the plan worked Jake was sad to know that his mother was so anxious to work and was avoiding talking about it with him, Jake only wanted to take Eva from the other job because she knew Eva was suffering, but if it was a good work he would approve even if the salary was low to see his mother happy.
After all, what Jake has been doing is to see his mother happy and not being selfish, he was sad because it seemed that Eva still did not want to say everything she thought about him, that's how she died in the past life and Jake thought who had changed that being closer to her.
But it seemed like nothing had changed yet, it showed that it had been a wise decision for Jake to ask Anna to keep an eye on Eva when he was not around, otherwise he would still be unaware of many things.
Anna was also sorry for Eva and with even more pity for Jake that she knew she wanted Eva to talk to him more, so Anna stopped talking to comfort Jake a little, she felt even more of the family, it was just like Eva was his shy daughter and Jake was his grandson who suffered from his mother who did not know how to be honest.
Soon after Jake recovered after being comforted, at least the plan had worked and thanks to Anna he could know more about what his mother thought the same way, so after a few days at the opening of the restaurant Eva would know of his gift.
After a few days, Jake told Eva that he had talked to Anna and was also invited to open the restaurant, so he called Eva to buy some clothes at the mall, Eva did not think necessary because Jake had taken her to buy some clothes in the year past.
But Jake had only bought some clothes for parties and formal dinners, he thought that the clothes for an opening would have to be different, especially when the clothes were for the owner of the restaurant.
Jake also grabbed some social clothes for that opening, he did not want to wear a suit at the opening of his mother's restaurant, so he thought it would be good to pick a new outfit for that special day.
After they returned home together, after dinner Jake returned to his room and Eve also went to sleep, after all the other day would be the opening of her friend's restaurant.
Jake can tell that Eve was distracted all day, he was a bit sad because she did not tell him anything about having applied for a job at the restaurant that Anna would work, it shows that she did not trust him much, but he found that this proved to be a good idea to open this restaurant even if it was hidden from it.
Jake was thinking that even if his mother was angry that he had made a restaurant without having talked to her before, he could tell she had asked for a new job without talking to him before too, so she could not be too angry with him.
Jake was thinking that this year he would use his second job more, so he was curious if his stats increased in those months that he cannot check.
"Fate, show me my statistics window for my second job."
[Here it is]
[Name: Jake Smith]
[Age: 16 years]
[Job: Businessman]
[Intelligence 58]
[Luck 99]
[Charm 36]
[Leadership 23]
[Policy 8]
[Eloquence 36]
Active Techniques
[See Through]
[Business Vision]
Looking at it, Jake saw that many of his stats increased a lot when he did not see it, but his Policy did not increase much, he remembered that when his statistics were in the single-digit they increased a lot in a year other than Policy.
But he thought this was normal as well because unlike physical statistics he would not know how to increase these statistics, maybe if he did several businesses in the next few years these statistics would naturally increase.
After seeing this Jake decided to sleep because the next day would be quite hectic.
Jake woke up early the other day when he came down Eva was preparing breakfast a little distracted, Jake could guess what she was thinking, but he knew that would change after today.
After breakfast they packed up and went to the place where Jake prepared the restaurant, when they got there they found several people, Eva thought this was normal, only Jake thought she was so nervous she did not even realize that this new restaurant did not have a sign yet.
The people who were here were the people Anna hired for the restaurant, then everyone went into the restaurant, everything was set up and prepared as if they were to open today, everyone received glasses of champagne and toasted.
So the employees went inside as they smiled and chatted, Jake and Anna thought Eva was too distracted by not realizing anything strange so far, after all, there was no way a restaurant opening was like that and with no opening speech.
In a moment only Jake, Eva, and Anna were in the hall, so Eva could not take it anymore and decided to talk to Anna even though Jake was nearby.
"Anna, who's the owner you said you'd be here?"
"She's already here," Anna said as she tried to hold back the laughter over Eva's question.
"Did you tell her about what I asked you before?"
"I'll leave that decision to you."
Seeing that Anna was happy while playing with Eva who was more nervous Jake decided to end this surprise and tell his mother soon before she had an attack.
"What did you think of this mother restaurant?"
"I found it very beautiful, it had to be that way for Anna to agree to work here."
"Does it look like the restaurant you dreamed about?"
"I think it's even better than I thought, I dreamed of something simpler ... Wait! How do you know I dreamed of having a restaurant? I did not tell anyone that."
"Secrets are never kept forever mother, like the fact that you want to get back to work."
Seeing this she was shocked, Eva thought that Jake never knew many of her secrets, it seems she tried to hide all this for nothing when she learned that Jake discovered Eva was a bit ashamed of it.
"If you wanted to work you could have told me that, Mom, I think your happiness is the most important thing, even if the work did not pay well or it was tiring, the important thing is that you were happy."
"I wanted you out of that restaurant because it felt like you did not like it there and was not happily working there if you're happy I'm happy too."
It was supposed to be something exciting for Eva, but she was so embarrassed to have her secrets discovered and also to know that she was thinking about too many things being that her son was so understanding.
Anna was the only one excited to see all this, she thought again that Eva was so lucky to have a son like Jake, in her family instead of winning a restaurant she had until she close what she built with so much effort, in addition, her son did not understand what she felt and even left her alone.
Even if it was not bad envy and only one thought was normal when it made so much difference in situations that had similar situations.
"This restaurant is now your mother, it's my gift to you, and you can not be angry at me, consider compensation for hiding so many things from me all those years."
Eva was shocked again by this situation, so this restaurant was hers? It was the restaurant she had always dreamed of, but she thought it strange that she only knew it when it was ready.
If it was someone else she might suspect this was a lie, but Eva was accustomed to Jake making several plans just to give her a gift, moreover, she knew better than anyone how much Jake earned from sponsorship per year, should give to buy more than 4 restaurants like this.
So Eva had to accept this gift, she did not even think of rejecting it as Jake thought she would, maybe if it had not been bought or remodeled she might deny it, but after everything was ready she knew it was impossible, moreover, she could work where she wanted it now and could have more freedom.
It was like Jake had thought before, after all this time knowing that the son made so much money to be well for a lifetime, Eva no longer thought it was a waste to spend money on anything, especially because she knew that the child could be more responsible than she is to the money.
"So it's a lie that Anna was working here?"
"No, that's true, she and all the people you saw in this false opening will work with you, I asked Anna to help you with this restaurant and it was she who chose those people, but if you want to dismiss someone the restaurant is your."
Eva was very happy to know that she could work with Anna as she wanted, and if it was Anna who had hired these people Eva trusted her friend, moreover, without Anna she knew that nothing could go right in the restaurant in the first few months, it seems Jake had thought of everything.
"So when can the restaurant really be open?"
"This will depend on you, mother, you have to choose the name of the restaurant, with what kind of dishes and public the restaurant will work, hire the necessary people, find the suppliers, make the menu of the restaurant, make a facade for the restaurant and then do some advertising to be able to open it."
Eva realized that Jake had left all the important decisions so she could take, even if she knew nothing about restaurants, Anna could help with all the things she did not know, even though she knew Jake did not care about it she did not I wanted the restaurant to do no harm.
After all this Eva knew the people who would work in the restaurant and then everyone went home, Eva had agreed that she would discuss with Anna about all the things that were missing, in fact, Eva's dream was just to have a small restaurant.
So she could tell that her dream was already fulfilled, of course, she wanted to see the restaurant full of people every day and also cook in her restaurant, but these things could be easily accomplished, now she had just to think about what the restaurant needed so he could at least keep up without Jake needing to put more money.
After they got home Eva can calm down and finally can think of what the son had done for her to open this restaurant and fulfill her dream, she heard from Anna that Jake had solved everything herself and she only helped after the restaurant was retired.
So after she finished dinner with Jake she got up and gave her son a hug, after a while, she even got emotional and started crying, after so many years she was already getting used to the way Jake treated her until she forgot how good a son she had.
Eva did not know that at first Jake did all these things because she had seen her suffer and end up dying in her past life, but even if she knew she would know that if the same situation happened to thousands of different people, no one would do the same things that Jake did for her.
In addition, Jake never stopped trying to make his mother happy even after 6 years had passed since he returned, and it did not look like Jake would stop trying to make Eva happy for the rest of his life.
After that Jake went to his room to prepare to sleep and face the next day he had been very happy that everything went well and his mother had been happy, he also thought that this restaurant could make that in addition to Eva a lot more happy people.
Besides Anna, who was Jake's main concern after his mother, he thought that everyone who works at this restaurant would be very happy since Eva and Anna were very kind people and with Jake financing the restaurant it was certain that they could never go wrong.
Even though he understood a lot of cooking and cooked so well, Jake was not planning to get involved in the restaurant's decisions, so he would just wait to know what kind of restaurant it would be when he went there after little more than a month.
So Jake could re-worry about his training over the next few weeks, he just had to worry about training for the marathon because he could keep up the good shape in basketball.
Then he could just do his weight training to increase his strength.
After doing the running and bodybuilding training Jake would always make his shots out whenever he could on the court he had in the basement, at first he did it just to fulfill the missions and receive the stamina bars.
But after a few years, this had become a habit for Jake, moreover, he knew that this could only do him good in his games, after making tens of thousands of shots from outside it was impossible that this did not help in his rates of correctness in the games.
And to train his general skills in basketball he trained every day in his training of imagination, after many months he had already learned basically how to play in the positions of Center and PF, so now he returned to do a more general training for all skills and in various positions.
It did not seem like, but Jake was feeling a lot of pressure to improve, he had talent, a system, more training time than everyone and even his physical stats could improve faster than the others, so Jake thought he had an obligation to be at least as skillful as the main stars.
In addition, he could have many more experiences in several different positions on the court, so he thought he had no excuses if he could not be better in the future.
So the next day Jake returned to the athletic field to train more, the last time he had managed to do 20 km in 70 minutes easily, so he would start with that distance again.
Jake managed to easily make the 20 km in 70 minutes again, so he felt he could go to the next stage of training, the other day he tried to do 30 km when he finished was very tired and had done in 115 minutes.
It was 10 minutes longer than he was walking, so he felt the difficulty in his goal of winning a marathon, after all, it was difficult to even finish this marathon when the training week ended he managed to do the 30 km in 105 minutes, but he still felt very tired.
Even so, he was a bit happy about it because he could probably do 25km even faster than he was doing now and then eat a bar of stamina and he would end the marathon in a good time.
Even though he wanted to try to improve his racing time, even more, Jake believed that in 6 years or less he could manage to win the marathon even without eating a bar of stamina, only then he could be proud to race and he would still be 22.
Of course Jake was not arrogant in thinking that all this was just his skill and effort, he knew that without the system he could not possibly succeed even if he trained for another 20 years.
The other day while he was preparing to train again Joseph called Jake to go out and talk a little, so Jake ended up accepting how he did not spend much time with his friend and also he had no competition to do soon.
Joseph called Jake to go to a diner, they had not been in a dinner for a long time because Joseph stopped eating snacks after he decided to lose weight even after the nutritionist said he could eat again without being afraid to fatten him easily I did not want to risk it.
"Hi Joseph, finally decided to eat again normally, I said that you could end up sick if you did not eat anything you wanted for fear of getting fat."
"I just wanted to wait a little longer to be sure, you know how easy it is to get fat after you've just lost weight, is the accordion effect I heard."
"Now you're almost married, you do not have to worry so much about looks, Hahaha."
"Now that I have to take care of myself, even more, congratulations for the national championship and the MVP award, you deserve it, now I'm sure the school regrets having left you two years off the team."
"Thank you, I'm sorry if I was more relaxed now that I won this trophy, it was like it was something I had to do, now I can rest easy to play next year."
"You say that more next year you're struggling again to win and you get stressed again, you're the type you can not stop while you know you can do it."
"You know me well, but I said I'd be calmer and not that I would not try to win, I think we can win by playing more quietly."
"I knew you made a restaurant to fulfill a dream of your mother, very cool it, I was sad that I was not invited to the opening."
"You are well informed, few people know this yet, but you have not had any opening yet, the inauguration will only be in a few months because the last details are being agreed, when the time comes your family will be invited."
"And how's your date with Liza, is everything okay?"
"Yes it's okay, we're going slowly, after all, next year we have to decide which university to go to and we do not know if we'll have to be separated by the time of college or if we can study together."
"Your grade I know is enough to get into any university, but what is it like at school?"
"She's like me, she's among the top 10 in her room, I mean it depends on the universities and also what course we'll do."
"You're going to do Business Administration, are not you? It's her?"
"Yes, I'm going to do administration so I can learn how to take care of my grandfather's company in the future, but Liza still does not know what she's going to do, she thought about doing journalism, but she gave up and now she's thinking about what to do."
Jake did not say anything, but he also thought Liza would not get anything in journalism, but if that's what she wanted she should not try to do something so different, it was something he did not want to get involved with, and Jake did not think he had risk of Joseph and Liza separating even if they are 4 years apart.
Jake knew how old-fashioned girls were after they chose someone to stay, it was difficult for them to change their minds, and Joseph had a hard time finding someone he liked too, so Jake did not think he would change his girlfriend so easily.
After that, they talked for a long time and were each to their own home, Joseph had also taken out his driver's license too after he saw Jake driving, he thought it would be best to take Liza out.
Jake saw that Joseph called him to talk because he was stressed with the last year of school coming, it was like he said he depended more on the university than his will and Liza, in that case, Jake was luckier because he could choose the university he wanted and he did not have to worry about a girlfriend.
He would find it cool if he could join the same university as Joseph, but they would not do the same course and Joseph had his girlfriend now, so Jake would not insist on studying together with his friend, after all, Jake was a friend of Oliver and Matthew too, it was impossible that they would cease to be friends just by studying at different universities.
Since he had missed this training day anyway he decided to see what his mother and Anna were doing, after a week they were talking they should have some more things ready.
And really it was so, after Eva said she had no restaurant in mind Anna began to suggest several things showing how she had more experience on the subject, Eva just as Jake had said she did not want a high-class restaurant.
She also did not mind having world recognition with Michelin stars, but it was not only because she had a simpler mentality, but because when they were traveling in Europe Jake took her mother to some restaurants that had Michelin stars.
Eva did not like it very much because she thought that in some restaurants the food was not tasty and in others, she had little food, only a few restaurants with Michelin stars really pleased Eva, she thought the food was the best she had ever eaten.
When Eva complained to Jake that some Michelin starred restaurants did not have tasty food Jake told her that all the world's greatest chefs are struggling to get that recognition and some even commit suicide when they lose their stars or when they win for fear of going back to mediocrity.
And they agreed it should not be for that much, but Jake knew it was because of the pressure and stress of having a very high goal that does not just depend on the chef and also the evaluator for that dream to be realized.
After that Eva was afraid to be like these chefs and did not want to have a luxury restaurant, Anna said that it could not also be a popular restaurant because it would not pay salaries and vendors and would also be a waste of the restaurant building and the location.
So they decided it would be for the upper middle class, so the dishes would be more complete and the price would be acceptable, as the location was near hotels that did not provide breakfast service or the service was bad, they decided to make a Full English Breakfast in the morning.
At lunch and dinner, it would be with various dishes that Eve experimented on the trips she had with Jake, Anna did not like the idea of having dishes from Germany and Spain, Eva said she wanted at least some dishes from those countries.
So Anna accepted and completed the discussion about the restaurant menu, but the menu would have to be seen better then, at least they would know which vendors would need to hire and also the kitchen staff who would be the sous chef, cooks, assistants among others.
It would be much harder for Anna to find good professionals because the salaries would not be as high as the top restaurants.
In addition to salaries being smaller than in major restaurants some things would be more difficult than in normal restaurants, this was because there was a lot of variety in cooking styles, many chefs specialize in just one type of dishes like Italian or Japanese food.
It was difficult to find people who made several different dishes and with the same quality, so she would have to hire several cooks who were good at different dishes with different styles, and the way to deal with these people would have to be different.
But even if Anna complained about the job Jake could see that she was very happy doing it, after all these years she was doing what she liked again, Eva was also very smiling every day which made Jake happy too.
Jake said it was so that Eva could also take advantage of it to learn from Anna at this time and not leave all responsibilities to Anna, after all, Jake knew that her mother's request to have several dishes made everything more difficult for Anna to organize.
They were lucky that as Jake did not know what kind of restaurant it would be when she invited Anna a few months ago she had already sought out professionals from every area of the kitchen and of different styles, now she just had to talk to these people.
Seeing that it would still take a few weeks for everything to be ready in the restaurant Jake returned to his training the other day.
This time Jake would be trying to run the 40 km, he can see from his last training that he could not keep the average of 35 minutes for every 10 km, so he would have to run much slower to achieve.
So he did as on the first day and tried to run with a time of 50 minutes for every 10 km, so at the end of the day, he had achieved but was exhausted at the end of the training, even with that speed with the little practice he almost failed.
Also, as he feared he felt some leg pain after training, this showed that he did not have the physical ability to run that distance and so his muscles could not handle the load.
So for the first time after he returned to the past he had to prepare an ice bath in the bathtub, it was not a pleasant experience, but it was great to regain his muscles so he could train the other day again.
The system could help Jake avoid injuries or warn him when he could suffer an injury from too much training, but Jake's case was just a normal rebound of running for so long, it was important to train the muscles of the body.
When Eva returned home she saw that Jake had taken an ice shower and laughed at him for a while, in fact, she even thought it strange that Jake had trained for so long and never needed an ice bath.
The next day, Jake made the 40 km again in 200 minutes, this time he got it easier, at least he had no leg pains, at the end of the 7-day training week he got the 40 km in 200 minutes and did not stay very tired.
This time he was not in a hurry, he needed to run 50km all day and would be sure to at least finish the race and not be ashamed, so he wanted to try to run until he could run 40km in 140 minutes.
Then he would pass 50 km if he saw that he could not get Jake to eat a stamina bar on race day, so the other day he tried to run 45 minutes for 10 km and again was exhausted by the end of the day, but at least he managed to run 40 km in 180 minutes.
After 3 days he could already run the 40 km in 180 minutes without getting too tired and changed to run 10 km in 40 minutes, so the other day he managed to run the 40 km in 160 minutes, but he again had leg pains and had to take another ice bath.
Even so after a little more than a month of training he could see a big improvement, he was sure it was thanks to the system, but even so he could be very proud, in addition, Jake was sure that his stamina could increase more at the end of the year.
At the end of the 7 days of training he managed to run the 40 km in 160 minutes, but he saw that it seemed that this was his speed limit, if he increased he would be much more tired at the end of the marathon and would have pain in the legs.
So he decided to settle for 40 minutes for 10 km, Jake wanted to start training to run 50 km and reach his limits in the marathon, if he could run the 50 km he would be sure to build resistance to win the marathon using the bar power.
Jake remembered the system saying that it was more difficult to raise resistance statistics than the other physical attributes, now he knew why, after all the marathon was more about the body's total capacity than stamina and stamina.
So someone running 100 km does not mean that these people would have 60 resistance, but that person would have trained his body to the extreme and his body was able to withstand the effort.
Jake was lucky enough to only increase his resistance if he could do the same thing as people who trained their bodies for dozens of years to do those tests.
Jake also remembered the fact that the system said that his body was not fully developed and so he would withstand much less effort than adults over 19 years.
In addition, Jake heard that when you reach the common limit every second makes a lot of difference, for example, in marathons the limit should be around 30 minutes by 10 km, so after that, every minute causes much more effort for the human body.
The best in the world could reach 25 minutes by 10 km if all conditions are favorable and this is its absolute limit, so all sports have something like that, especially when you run that distance multiplied by almost 5.
But Jake would not have time to try the 50 km after all the restaurant was almost ready, Jake had to help his mother in these last adjustments before the inauguration, Jake saw that all the people had been hired and the menu was ready as well.
It would have various types of dishes from all the countries they visited, most of the dishes were from France and Italy, Eva asked for several dishes that were refused by Anna, such as the BBQ that could not be made because of the smell of roast that I would stay in the restaurant that could take away customers who did not like the dish.
Eva also declined the Japanese food Anna wanted to put on the menu, Eva said she thought she had many Japanese food restaurants in Miami and her restaurant did not have to do the same, and Eva did not like Japanese food.
Anna also managed to find a great Pâtissier who came from Mexico and decided to get this job in the restaurant because Eva had no prejudice with Latinos what they had in other restaurants and he wanted American citizenship for him and his daughter who was hired as a restaurant receptionist.
It turned out that the Pâtissier was excellent and even Anna who worked with luxury restaurants approved of his skill, his name was Julius, and his daughter's name was Lola.
In fact, Anna told Jake that she was much more confident in the Full English Breakfast portion than it was in the morning than at lunch and dinner time, Jake agreed to this after seeing Julius's abilities.
With Júlio and Anna commanding the preparation of Full English Breakfast would surely be a success, but Jake thought it over, he hoped customers could spread Julius's skills in desserts so that everyone would know the restaurant through it.
After all, even if Jake did not expect much from the restaurant and just wanted to see Eva happy, there was no denying that this was above all a business, even if Eva's idea of having dishes from several countries was a good idea, every successful restaurant needed and Julio could be the highlight.
After all, things were settled it was time to choose the name of the restaurant, in the end, it would be called "Eva Touch", it was the name of Eva who was the owner of the restaurant and also had a reference to the Garden of Eden of the Bible.
Anna and Jake laughed when Eva was embarrassed by the name she chose, but the name was important to call attention to the restaurant, after all, it was the food and the service that people would most evaluate to judge the quality of the restaurant.
Jake saw that his mother was looking forward to the restaurant's opening, but Jake thought it was not the right time yet, they had to first make a few announcements first and then invite all the friends to the opening.
Jake asked Eric to put the restaurant in the newspaper where he worked that had the largest number of subscribers in Miami, Eric was happy to know that Jake's mother had opened a restaurant of his own and said he would help her advertise and even make a discount.
Then Jake phoned all the acquaintances for a small opening party the day before the opening, after a few days after the plaque that would be placed on the front of the restaurant would be delivered to Jake.
Jake also took the opportunity to take stock of the opening expenses and also the cost of vendors and salaries that would be the restaurant's monthly expense, Jake was a bit shocked at the report's final value.
It seemed that having a restaurant was more expensive than he thought, in addition to wages which was set too high because there were too many people, the value to the restaurant ingredients was also higher than he initially thought.
Even so in a few months, Jake had confidence that the restaurant could start to make a profit, of course taking the value of the initial investment that Jake invested to buy and renovate the restaurant and all things in it.
Jake did not care about this because for him this investment was a gift to his mother, he never thought about getting that money back, Jake was excited too with the opening that would be in a few more days.
While Jake prepared the last details for the opening of the restaurant Anna and Eva were busy training the staff to prepare the dishes of the menu, after all after the restaurant opened they would have to be prepared.
Fortunately, the dishes on the menu were all very easy to make, the more complicated dishes were made by the more experienced cooks about Anna's guidance, Eva was using everything she learned to guide other cooks and also oversees the cooks.
Even Jake helped a little by giving some tips on the dishes he knew how to do very well, Jake also offered to help by trying the dishes that were prepared, as he did not have to worry about getting fat and also knew how to cook he was the best candidate to prove the dishes.
So after a few more days, everything was ready, the restaurant was ready for opening and the dishes were perfect too, the opening day would be dinner time, after all, they could not serve Full English Breakfast to the guests.
The advertisement in the paper was also a success, a pity that was too expensive to keep this advertisement, so Jake thought of only announcing a few times a year in the newspaper after all his main income would come from nearby hotels that did not even read the newspaper.
When the opening day came, it was Jake who had to attend the guests, since both Eva and Anna were the chefs in the kitchen and could not easily get out to greet the guests, moreover, Eva thought her son would do a great job as a host in the Opening.
As it was in the evening all his friends could attend the opening of the restaurant, Eric was one of the first to appear, Jake invited him for being a friend and mainly for helping with the advertisement of the opening of the restaurant.
Then came Joseph and Liza, Jake invited only Joseph, but he could not prevent his friend from bringing his girlfriend, then they charged Oliver and Matthew, then Emily appeared with her father, the last ones were Tiffany and Clara.
In addition to the friends came many people who were known to their friends that Jake asked the contacts and the managers of the closest hotels, Jake wanted to make friends with these hotels so they would recommend the restaurant to their customers.
After everyone arrived Eva left because she had to say a few words to everyone who came, after dinner, a cocktail would be made so that everyone could talk, but many would probably leave after dinner.
"I want to thank everyone who came here today, it's a dream that I've always had that is being carried out today, I want to thank my son Jake who prepared this restaurant for me and also my friend Anna who has been helping me all these years and is also helping me in this dream."
"What I hope is that everyone who comes to this restaurant can leave satisfied with the dishes that are served here and everyone can share this happiness with me for many years, thank you."
Everyone applauded Eve who went out quickly to the kitchen ashamed, she was wearing the chef's uniform and not a dress like the last time, as that was the opening everyone was wearing dresses for women and suits for men, even Jake was in a suit.
Afterwards, everyone dined very happy, several people were invited today and everyone had a favorite type of food, but as Eva's restaurant had several types of dishes from several countries all were satisfied.
As Jake and Anna expected the highlight of the dinner were the desserts and pasta that Julius prepared, many tried various kinds of desserts thanks to this, the highlight was the cakes that were made by Julius, everyone liked.
Actually, almost everyone who was invited here did not expect much from the new restaurant after all everyone knew that this restaurant would serve Full English Breakfast and the value of the dishes was not too high, so people only came for education.
But all the dishes were very good as in all restaurants and the desserts were the highlight of the restaurant so it looked like it had everything to be a successful restaurant, it was a pleasant surprise to everyone.
After the dinner was over everyone was very happy, Anna and Eva left the kitchen and switched to the dresses they had prepared for the cocktail after dinner and everyone praised the restaurant before leaving or staying for the cocktail.
Jake, Anna, and Eva were very happy with the success that the restaurant had made, the one who had been most surprised by this was Emily who helped Jake to look for this place just over 6 months ago.
She saw that Jake chose the place and prepared all things for retirement and even had the business proposal a few weeks after choosing the place, Emily even thought that Jake had done everything in a relaxed way as it was just to perform the dream of his mother and not to succeed.
But today she realized that he had done everything correctly and was very successful at it, after that restaurant and the report on Jake's investments that were making a lot of money, she was sure Jake would be very successful in the future.
First Jake talked to the hotel managers, everyone was glad they were invited to the restaurant when Jake raised the issue of the customers the managers said they would certainly recommend the restaurant to hotel customers.
In fact, as the hotels did not have that kind of service and even those who did not like the customers, the hotel owners themselves advised the hotel to recommend it to customers where they could eat.
The problem was that the managers had no place to recommend to customers, the few restaurants that offered such service served only the continental breakfast which was the same as some hotels.
But the customers were not satisfied with that, not to mention that these restaurants charged a lot for it, now the managers finally had a place they could recommend with confidence after all these desserts would do until the managers of the hotels wanted to eat breakfast here.
This could be good for hotels that could get more customers in a few years who like the food of the restaurant, after all in a survey they made many customers did not come back because they did not have a good service with meals.
After the managers left Jake greeted Tiffany and Clara who were chatting happily with Eva and Anna, so Jake took the opportunity to talk to Oliver and Matthew who were alone in that cocktail party.
"Why are you alone here?"
"There are not many people we know here, besides, we're not alone because we have the company of each other, are not we?"
"You're right, we were waiting to talk to you before you left, I'm sorry for Joseph, he had to leave after dinner because his boring girlfriend dragged him away."
"Do not talk like that, Liza is a good girl for Joseph, so was my wife and mother, was not she? It is the destiny of the men of our family to be sent by women."
"That's true, but I did not say Liza was a bad girl, she's just boring, there's no way you could compare her to your mother to your wife, those were real women."
"She's still very young and so it is, I'm sure she can be a great woman in the future."
Jake was only watching the two of them talking to themselves and leaving him out of the conversation, he could not speak ill of Liza because she was his friend's girlfriend and he hoped that Joseph would leave because of her, that's why he did not invite Liza, so Joseph deserved to leave.
It seemed the two had gotten much closer after they discovered that Matthew's company might have failed if they did not switch to digital cameras, after which Oliver began to help the company a little more and leave his law firm with his employees.
"How's business going now, Matthew?"
"It's doing very well thanks to you, we've finally been able to develop our own digital camera, it did not take long because many companies in Japan were already developing this technology."
"Now I'm only afraid that integrating this technology into our camera models and we can start selling, we have to make the public aware that our company is changing the first products and then we will have more time to improve our products."
"I think you're right to do that Matthew, even if the first digital camera does not have a very good quality you have to show that your company is developing, the important thing is for you to improve your products when computer companies develop USB on computers."
"It will be at this time that digital camera sales are going to increase a lot, you need to be one of the first companies to be in this market, so your company will always be in the public's memory."
"Also, do not forget that you have to try to develop this technology to put on cell phones or computers too, if you get some technological patents and some contracts with cellular companies your company will earn billions."
Matthew trusted Jake's vision was developing this technology, almost all of the company's profits were going to the development of technology and products for this, after making the public know your brand will make them earn much more in the future.
After these cameras began to make more success Matthew was thinking of giving some reward to Jake, after all, he was helping the company a lot without gaining anything.
Matthew knew that if what Jake said was done he could earn billions with some contracts with cell phone companies or computers as well as with technology patents after all anyone using a technology they developed would have to make a profit share for Matthew's company in the future.
For a $ 320 million company that was close to failing to earn a few billion in the future would be all merit of Jake, so it was together to give a reward, Matthew would have to decide whether it would be cash or stock company.
After all, if he took Jake shares even if he was worth hundreds of millions in the future, he would also encourage Jake to give more councils like this to the company so they could be market leaders after a few years.
Matthew thought he could not hire Jake because he knew Jake wanted to be a pro at basketball, but just as Jake had an investment firm and also helped take care of his mother's restaurant, if he had some company stock he could help Joseph in the future with some ideas.
Matthew thought that if he had a granddaughter he would surely marry Jake to tie him to the family, but Jake is a friend of Joseph and with the company, the stock would already work, he felt he was right because that could also help Jake make more money.
"When we're finishing the camera for sale I'm going to call you to the company so that I can evaluate if the product is good, after all, you gave the idea."
"You can count on me."
Just as they said after talking to Jake, Oliver and Matthew left, after a while before Jake looked for more people to talk to Tiffany had left the other women to talk to him.
"Hi Jake, I was very happy to see this restaurant you prepared for your mother, I'm sure she's very happy about it, now you're also a businessman like me and Clara."
Few people knew that Jake had another company that worked with investments, nor did Anna and Eva know about it so it was normal for Tiffany to think it was Jake's first venture.
As well as Tiffany and Clara no one else knew Jake was planning to run a marathon, Eva knew Jake was training for it, but she knew Jake always liked to run and did not think his son was serious about taking it seriously.
Jake apprehended in his past life that dealing with other people was always better to be humble and try to hide as much as possible what he does, because sometimes even the closest people can end up feeling envious.
Jake's teammates, for example, did not know how much he got from sponsorship, in fact beyond the companies only Eva knew the value correctly, even Emily and the accounting firm did not know these things for sure.
"It's all from my mother and there is nothing of mine here right now, even though it's very successful I do not want my mother's money."
"I know this, I was just playing with you, next year is going to be a busy year for all of us, your last year in high school and our companies will also start investing in new stores and factories, we want to grow in the market in the next years."
"I'm happy for you, I hope your companies can continue to grow in the next few years."
"I expect that too, we might have to do another television commercial for next year, I think your other sponsors will also do that, next year you're going to be very busy."
"It's good to be busy, I rested a lot getting out of the team in those two years, now I do not want that to happen again, I'll also start looking for marathon competitions later this year."
"Are you really going to do this? We support you, but I think you're going to end up wearing too much if you do so many things."
"I want to enjoy trying before I go to university, I have a plan that needs me to run in a marathon to get it right."
Jake had some plans for the next few years, he did not want to run just because he liked it if that was why he did not need to compete, but he had to train first to accomplish those things.
The only marathon competitions he wanted to run were just at the end of the year, if he wanted to run in the next few months when he would be ready he would have to go to another country, and he did not plan to participate in many international marathon competitions.
So he would have more time to train until the end of the year, Jake thought it would be easy with the help of the system, but even with the system helping it was difficult to improve in a few months, the more training time he was more certain he would have to win using the stamina bar.
"How is Clara? Has her marriage situation improved? I see she's better today."
"Nothing improved, I think she gave up everything, almost ten years of marriage so without any interest of Robert left her with no hope that something would change."
"The health of Robert's father has worsened again and he's getting more and more shameless with his lover, I think in the next two years if Robert's father ends up dying, he's going to separate from Clara."
"I can not understand why Clara has not separated from him yet, this guy only makes her suffer for many years, Clara is so beautiful and still young, she can marry again soon, but if she takes too long in this toxic relationship it will only hurt her."
"I agree with you, but Clara is very stubborn, as she had given her word that she would marry she does not think about separating until Robert has the initiative."
After that Jake and Tiffany talked for a while longer and the cocktail ended, Jake said goodbye to Clara who seemed curious about what they were talking about so they closed the restaurant and left.
The next day the restaurant would start functioning normally and they would never have time off again so if everything went right, after all how the restaurant would work with breakfast, lunch, and dinner they would have to open early and close late every day.
The other day Jake went to the restaurant to help on the first day of normal operation, everything went very well and as there were many cooks helping each other when they had nothing to do at the moment.
In the early days, they agreed that only Anna would run the kitchen and Eva would just watch and learn, then Eva would also do her duties as a chef when the restaurant was busier.
It really was not a good idea to have two chefs in a restaurant, but everyone knew that Anna would have more authority and Eva would only help in the beginning, after a few years Eva would have as much authority as Anna in the kitchen.
Since in the first few days they did not have many clients, Jake had the idea of inviting several restaurant staff to eat Full English Breakfast without any special conditions, the staff was very happy about it.
After they had gone a few days the customers increased and Jake had to stop inviting the staff, the staff understood and were very grateful, and the most intelligent would always recommend Eva's restaurant to hotel guests.
After all they would not miss anything doing this and would not even hinder the hotel, in addition, they knew the food was truly delicious, especially the apples and desserts, after going to the restaurant as guests some who had the highest salaries even went back there as a customer because it was not expensive the Full English Breakfast.
Hotel guests sometimes received the recommendation of the manager, the receptionist, and other hotel staff and went to the restaurant and enjoyed the service and even tipped thanks to the staff they were happier to recommend.
So Jake's simple business strategy worked, thanks to a little luck, a little intelligence, good restaurant food, and customers did not have many options.
Guests at Full English Breakfast hotels also sometimes had lunch and dinner at the restaurant, at first Anna decided not to close the restaurant for reservations and serve the customers who would catch up.
If it was the time of the mobile apps it could all be easier with the restaurant having good appraisals in food apps, but by that time that was the best way Jake could think.
After another week of helping in the restaurant Jake left everything in Anna and Eva's hands, he was sure that even though they had some difficulties, in the beginning, they would be able to.
Jake had to go back to his training at school, he had to improve his body as fast as possible so that he could run at the end of the year, after all, he could not train like that when the most important basketball games are happening.
Jake returned to training and ran another 40 km in a day in 160 minutes, he did not have many difficulties and so he thought he could move to the 50 kilometers, but the other day coach Mike called Jake to his office.
Jake did not understand why he had been called, after all, though some players were training on the court the coach had dismissed the mandatory training team, so Jake had time to run.
"Hi Jake, thanks for coming, sorry for interrupting your training."
"Okay, coach, is there anything you want to call me here?"
Jake was uncomfortable because sometimes the coach was very polite to him who was just a player, it was good that coach Mike did not do that when other players were around, otherwise, the situation could get weirder.
What Jake did not know was that Coach Mike also did not like to do this, but he started doing this after receiving several notices and councils from the president of the school to treat Jake well, in addition, Coach Mike was very grateful to Jake for helping him to get a promotion.