I think the mountaineering story is also based on a well-known horror story. It gets referenced on this page in this manga. So Numakawa already knew the twist ahead of time.
"I need to win a cooking contest against one of my coworkers who sucks at cooking, commits workplace harassment that could provoke a lawsuit, and pushed Asuka down a set of stairs."
"...You know I'm still a co-owner of the restaurant, right? Why has nobody told me that I'm still giving a...
There's a story that mapo tofu was originally created by a pockmarked old woman, and mapo literally means pockmarked old woman in Chinese, if anyone's curious.
I know challenging the guy to a cooking contest is stupid, but remember that the first part of this series involved Ban getting mercilessly beaten by his senior coworker multiple times until the guy quit for personal reasons. Not addressing workplace abuse is a recurring theme in this series.
Why did they ask the high schooler to order the liquor? You still need ID for online orders, and the club has three members and four other college students helping them.
Just realized the truck on page 5 is a reference to chapter 66, the part about the fruit that take over your body. Daidai is even the one who originally makes the face for the advertisement.
So this chapter and the previous one are both parodying the scene where the other foremen confront Ootsuki after Kaiji reveals that he's cheating? Rule of three makes me think the next chapter will do the same thing.
It's not confirmed, but Yoshida's dad was almost certainly the human. Yoshida still writes letters back to her home in the elven forest to her mother. Her dad is probably dead (maybe from old age, assuming that elves have much longer life spans in this manga). At the end of the first volume...