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Restaurant After Hours · Echo 501

While tidying the restaurant after hours, Jiang Ning finds an opening-day video. Ye Heng amplifies a section of the audio, and the two hear an overlooked suggestion once made by a colleague who has long since changed professions. The traffic bottlenecks that repeatedly trouble the restaurant today are precisely the problem that suggestion sought to address. Jiang Ning contacts the former colleague to express gratitude and verify the notes, then rearranges the front-of-house flow; the old footage thus serves not only for an anniversary reflection, but also fulfills a belated, thoughtful listening.

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