Shokugeki no Soma 108

Shokugeki no Soma 108

p1
Box: Stagiaire Period Day 4
Mamoru: Good morning, Arato-chan!
Mamoru: Ah, could you sort the vouchers once if you're free?
Hisako: Sure! I've already begun doing so.
Arrow: PC Glasses
Man: Wow, you even know how to do office work?
Star: The newest JC volume (1) and the edition including a Drama CD come out this Wednesday(3/4)!!
"Shokugeki no Soma"
Mamoru: It seems she already did something like this.
Man: Eh? Isn't she a student?
Mamoru: She said something about secretarial duties and so on...
Man: No, like I said, isn't she a student?
Man: But she looks like she's a lot more accurate than you are, chef.
Man's sd: Hahaha...
Mamoru: L...Let's not talk about that~~~!
Cutlery: The trainee period is going good at first glance but...
Hisako(thinks): This restaurant has to change...?
Hisako(thinks): Just what should it change, Yukihira Souma...!?

p2
Hisako(thinks): And---
Flashback: That isn't the place where you really want to be, is it?
Hisako: Hmph...! It's just something that man said.
Hisako: Just look! After we came, the sales and the number of complaints have...
Hisako(thinks): After we came......
Hisako: If we
Hisako: Leave---
Souma: That's it,
Souma: This place would just go back to how it was.

p3
Souma: Sure, they could temporarily hire some people and the place would run just fine.
Souma: But that won't solve the fundamental problem.
Souma: Are things really ok like this?
Cutlery: The restaurant's problems are far from over...!! What to do!?
Hisako: We're having an emergency meeting!!!
Shokugeki no Soma
Story: Tsukuda Yuuto
Art: Saeki Shun
Collaborator: Morisaki Yuki
Mamoru: !?
(cutlery) 108 Choosing a Path

p4
Megumi(thinks): At this rate, the week will be over with me just doing menial jobs...
Megumi(thinks): I don't think I can do something as amazing as what Nakiri-san is doing,
Megumi(thinks): But I have to become more useful...!
Voice: Here are next ones!! Keep washing them!
Megumi: Y-Yes!
Megumi: .........

p5
Sign:{
Emergency Staff Meeting
Where should Western Restaurant Mitamura head to?
}
Sign: In Recess
Voice: L-Let's start hiring some part-timers!
Voice: We have to find some new staff before Yukihira-kun and Arato-chan leave in three days!
Voice: But......
Kanji beside Souma: Solving problems swiftly and skillfully
Man: Do you think we'll be able to find people good enough to fill their holes so easily?
Kanji beside Hisako: Unparalleled Accuracy
Thought: That's plain impossible!
Hisako: .........
Hisako: Maybe...We should narrow down the menu?

p6
Hisako: The vast amount of dishes is becoming a burden...
Hisako: If you renovate the menu leaving only the most popular dishes---
Mamoru: No way...
Mamoru: Some of those recipes are here from my grandfather's generation, you know!?
Mamoru: Telling me to change that is...
Hisako: But if this situation continues the restaurant might eventually bankrupt-
Voice: Hey there!
Voice: You've been really helpful since you arrived,
Voice: But you have no right to interfere so much...
Voice: We've been working here since the past generation.
Voice: If we change the menu...This wouldn't be Mitamura anymore!
Hisako: ............

p7
Souma: But, don't you feel bad for the customers?
Hisako: !
Souma: They've been waiting to eat something before their trip,
Souma: But before thinking if it's a good or bad dish, you can't just not serve them anything!
All: ............
Souma: ------Mitamura-san,
Souma: What kind of restaurant do you want this to be?
Mamoru: Eh......?
Souma: There's one thing,
Souma: I want you to hear---

p8
Megumi: U-
Megumi: Umm...
Kasayama: Huh?
Megumi: About the second dish in the course,
Megumi: The fish dish dressed with salad...
Kasayama: What, even you!? Just shut up and wash those dishes!
Megumi: Y-Yeeeeees, I'm sorryyy!
Erina: It's ok,
Erina: Voice your opinion.
Kasayama(thinks): Don't go taking control, you braaaaat!!
Megumi: Ermmm...I thought it might be a good idea to let the customers choose the amount of sauce to pour on their dish.

p9
Kasayama: The sauce? What are you-
Erina: Why do you think so?
Megumi: Looking at the dishes to wash, sometimes they have plenty of sauce left,
Megumi: And sometimes the customers put the sauce on bread and end up leaving the vegetables.
Erina(thinks): Just from washing the dishes
Erina(thinks): She reached that conclusion---?
Megumi: B...But that's difficult to do, isn't it?
Megumi: It would create more work for the hall and the kitchen...
Erina: Not really.
Erina: Serving the sauce in a "saucière" is something that's been done all around France from long ago.
Erina: This traditional idea might actually become a novelty.
Text: "Saucière" A pitcher used to serve sauce in it. The people on the dining table are able to freely adjust the amount of sauce they add.
Kasayama: Shut up...! What do you girls know about this!!?

p10
Kasayama: The customers are here to eat my dishes.
Kasayama: I'm going to kick you out of here if you keep tampering with my kitchen.
Man: Umm...Chef,
Man: A customer just asked for more sauce...
Box: Three days later,
Box: The last day---
Kazune: I see,
Kazune: The Nakiri/Tadokoro pair is likely to pass...Understood.
Kazune: Well then...How about the problematic "Western Restaurant Mitamura"?
Kazune(thinks): Just what happened in the end...

p11
Mamoru: Please come again!
Mamoru: Thank you very much!
Kazune: ...!?
Kazune: This is......!
Man: Oh! There's a restaurant here.
Man: We still have 30 minutes, let's have a meal---
Woman: Hm...What's this?
Sign:{
Thank you for coming.
In view of the situation we serve customers
Big Text: Only With Reservations
Phone: XX-XXXX-XXXX
Western Restaurant Mitamura
}
Woman: Only with reservation?

p12
Souma: "Mitamura's" food is good,
Souma: There's no mistaking that.
Souma: The careful work and the vast menu give the customers a great degree of satisfaction.
Souma: But now the situation's changed and those good points are being overshadowed.
Souma: That's why...I think this is a valid option:
Souma: I feel sorry for them, but you could refuse to let customers passing by here,
Souma: And make this restaurant one you can only enter with a reservation---
Hisako: ---...!
Hisako(thinks): That was an option......!

p13
Voice: However...Saying it is easy, but will it really go that well.
Voice: The risk of losing all the customers that have been coming here is big, you know...?
Voice: Besides, we've been working like this all this time, changing it so suddenly is...
Hisako: If the situation has changed
Hisako: Your path will be blocked if you don't change as well.
Hisako: If there's something you want to go through with
Hisako: You should stick with it without caring to keep appearances!
Hisako: I think this restaurant has "potential".
Hisako: I...Want to believe in it!

p14
Souma: Well...We're not the ones who decide what to do,
Souma: But the one who stands on top.
Souma: Mitamura-san,
Souma: What is it you want to go through with as the chef?
Mamoru: Shimizu-san! Welcome!
Mamoru: Thank you for reserving with us!!
Shimizu: No, sorry for not coming for so long.
Shimizu: You looked like you were really busy these days which made it a bit more difficult to come often.
Shimizu: I rushed as soon as I heard you began using a reservation system.
Shimizu: I want the usual Napolitan and Sandwich menu! Oh, and-
Mamoru: "Low in salt"...Right?

p15
Shimizu: ...Haha!
Shimizu: You sure know it well, third generation chef!
Sign: Office
Hisako: In parallel to the current phone-based reservations,
Hisako: You'll need a system where the younger customers can make reservations easily.
Mamoru: Y-Yes!
Hisako: How about using this terminal? The reservations are automatically reflected on the register as soon as they're made.
Hisako: With it you can also use a POS web service, the interface is intuitive and the inputs are aggregated just like that.
Hisako: What's more, the download is free! And you can get the hardware cheaply with a lease contract.
Man: Wow...She's doing business now. (cd: What's a web service?)
Woman: Do you learn this too in Tootsuki Academy?
Souma: Well...Not really to this extent...

p16
Hisako: Hey! Go back to your jobs.
Hisako: I'll be responsible for the management!
Souma: Sorry for the wait.
Souma: Here's your "Mitamura Special Napolitan".

p17
Shimizu: ......Ah, as I thought...
Shimizu: This flavor sure is nice.
Shimizu: Could you get me a coffee after the meal.
Souma: Certainly!

p18
Kazune: It's seems they've got over the first point
Kazune: Which is tested during the Stagiaire period.
Kazune: They can't just only complete the jobs they're tasked with.
Kazune: They should think of what they can do for the restaurant and act according to that...
Kazune: The first step of the Stagiaire period begins there!
Souma: You looked pretty dejected on the first day,
Souma: But you look a bit better now.
Hisako: ......Hmph, if you have time to chatter
Hisako: Then get to work! Yukihira Souma!

p19
Kazune: The Arato Hisako/Yukihira Souma pair---
Kazune: Passed the first Stagiaire period!!
Souma: It wasn't much---!
Hisako: It's "Thank you very much, please come again"!!
Hisako: Don't change it for your original phrase!
Cutlery: Mission complete---!!
Shokugeki no Soma
(cutlery) 108/End