"I ask you all to do your very best today."
The office of Jang Daehyeon, Managing Director and executive chef of the Latte Signiel.
Lunch was over and the chefs in charge of the cooking sections had gathered in one place.
Han Jeongsu, chef of the Korean section, Suyeon Dining; Sakai Haruto, chef of the Japanese section, Ao; Lin Hao, chef of the Chinese, Cheonun; Matteo Rossi, chef of the Italian, Libero.
And Julien Lefebvre of the dessert section, on whom the Signiel spent more care than on anybody in bringing him in.
He is the head graduate of Ferrandi Paris, the world's most celebrated confectionery school.
He was also the chef in charge of dessert at Le Meurice, which holds a Michelin star.
In a word, the famous names of the cooking world have all gathered in one room.
Jang Daehyeon the executive chef held the chefs to it once more, in fluent English.
"Who is coming?"
Chef Kang Doyun asked it. Today is the weekend, which makes it a busy day in any case.
Friday and Saturday in particular are the days that raise the golden takings of every outlet.
Ordinarily the executive chef does not call everybody together in one place.
And it is not common either for the same instruction to be given twice. Yet today, exceptionally, there had been an urgent summons.
"As I told you by section DM yesterday, there is a VIP gathering. There must be no mistake, and I have called you here to press it on you once more."
Jang Daehyeon the executive chef, a man who has risen from the bottom of his trade to this chair by his own effort.
He is a man who has mastered Japanese, Korean, Italian and French cooking.
At present his standing is that of an officer of the Signiel hotel.
And a Jang Daehyeon like that was tense.
"Who is it, please to say?"
Sakai Haruto, who manages Korean awkwardly, was curious as well.
"A son of one of the country's chaebol families has moved into unit 7001."
"Unit 7001, that would be………