Once again, Blubber King had seen changes.

It was becoming a running joke on the colony at this point, how often the eatery changed to try to keep up with competition. Di however had done a good job convincing corporate, especially after the visit from their top ponies had put the chain on edge.

She was pleased though, things had changed for the better. She had borrowed one of Roaring Thunder’s ideas, no longer was there many seats in the place. Only around the edge, just for that 5% of customers who still waddled their way in. The interior now was mostly tables with designated pad parking spaces around them.

The drones? Gone. Di couldn’t remember a day when at least one of them was down awaiting repairs. Back to how it should be. Customers either waited at the counter and got their food when it was ready or one of their staff would bring it over. It was so much simpler.

The menu? They still kept it as it was mostly, customers had come to enjoy the variety and seeing what they gained with each other. But there was one addition. They now had special days when ponies could get particular meals cheaper or some other variation of that. So far they had:

Meaty Monday - All foods containing some sort of meat was 50% off.Waddle Wednesday - Ponies not on pads who waddled in got a buy one get one free deal on their food, particularly to encourage gaining so they no longer qualified for the discount. Cushions provided at pad parking spaces instead, Di expecting that 5% of waddlers to increase greatly.Fat Friday - A single price of 20 bits for all you could eat.

She planned to introduce more days, but that would be plenty for now. She wanted to give her staff at least some respite. There was one more big change, presently she was training Sunny on how it worked.

“A drive through window?” Sunny asked, peering her head out down the small empty road that would soon be busy with hungry pad bound customers.

“Yes, something they trialled a while ago on a few other colonies and it worked quite well. You get an order through your headset, you relay that to kitchen who makes it and then you give that to the pony that ordered it.” Di explained. “They have to wait about the same time as those ponies who come in but, it means they don’t have to come in. It also opens us up to those ponies too fat to get inside.” she said smiling. Let's give it a go?”

“Alright.” Sunny replied, putting on her headset, Di herself manoeuvring her pad outside and coming up to the speaker box. Sunny’s voice greeted her.

“Hello! Welcome to Blubber King, what can I get you?”

“A number seven with a large shake.”

“Can I get you anything else?”

“That’s all.”

“Thank you! Your order will be ready momentarily. If you can please pull up to the next window and pay I’ll be right there.”

Di was impressed, it seemed Sunny had easily taken to the role. Not that she wouldn’t be used to it, having worked on the tills. As she pulled up she saw Sunny at the window, there was a small scanning pad where Di paid and the money was deducted.

“That was easy!” Sunny exclaimed, leaning at the window and smiling. But she sensed something was wrong.

“You’ve forgotten one key thing.” Di said, raising an eyebrow.

“O-oh? Um. W-what?”

“The meal…” Di replied, grinning. She watched as it suddenly clicked with Sunny and her brain realised she actually had to prepare it.

“Oh, sorry! I thought it was just training. One moment!” she said a little flustered, shutting the hatch and returning a minute later with the meal Di had ordered, passing it out onto a small tray on her pad.

“Do you need any sauces?” she asked.

“No thank you, this is perfect. Once I’ve eaten this I’ll be back inside.” Di said, Sunny closing the hatch leaving her boss outside to munch on the number seven meal and large shake.

She really hoped this would work. She had already heard gossip around the town though of ponies excited to try to get in for one of the cheaper menu days. “I may waddle in, but they’ll have to roll me out!” she had heard a stallion exclaim, grinning to herself.

She finished the meal and headed back in where her staff were milling around, it was a Sunday and the opening was tomorrow, kicking off with the new Meaty Monday.

“Usually I give a speech here but I feel like this time it’s not needed, you all know what’s at stake.” Di said, the rest of them just nodding in agreement. “Tomorrow is yet another re-opening, we start with one of our special days. I’ve already had buzz around the town that ponies are excited to fill their bellies, as they always are. I’ve had extra meat stock ordered.” she explained. “You are all happy now there is no more drones, you’ll be either giving orders out or delivering them to tables yourselves?” she asked.

There was a collective nod, they had all been trained on the new system. Each table had a number, customers gave the table number with the order, they delivered to that table. Easy.

“Good, now go home, rest up and prepare for tomorrow. I am hoping it is going to be very, very busy.” Di finished up, the staff grabbing their things and leaving for the night. Di herself took a final look around the place before locking up and leaving herself. All she could do now was hope that the ponies of Sleipnir were as hungry as ever.

She mused at the situation of just how large ponies got. Of course she was part of the problem but ponies had always been fat. It just seemed more so in recent years that the amount gained had skyrocketed. The colony pad company couldn’t keep up with ballooning sizes, new houses were being constructed constantly. Bigger and bigger every year to accommodate mammoth ponies who just gained potentially hundreds of pounds every day. Two things seemed perpetual, having to build bigger houses and ponies buying food. She laughed to herself, at least there would always be a job in construction if the food industry tanked, not that that would ever happen however.

Di took a look at herself. She had gained since being on Sleipnir too. Her gain was modest though compared to a lot of ponies, a mere eight hundred extra pounds adorned her squishy frame. She hoped she could hit three thousand pounds total weight by her next birthday, it was a reasonable goal. She really wasn’t very far off it. Her favourite, Sunny, had nearly doubled in weight. It was visible too. She was well on her way to immobility, Di assumed most of her wages were squirrelled away should she ever need to buy a pad.

She wondered if one day Sleipnir might even catch up to Equestria. She had heard stories, ponies the sizes of houses. So big they didn’t even live in anything anymore, just parked their pads on a space of land as Equestria always had near perfect weather. She had heard...things though, stories of ponies on Sleipnir getting to real gargantuan sizes. Mostly the upper class, they never graced her establishment with their presence. For one thing most of them were far too fat to even get in. Another was they had their own ways of gaining that were far more pleasurable and easier than stuffing your face with fast food. Burgers really were a poor ponies way to gain, but Di was okay with that. Everypony needed some way to fatten up. She and the other ponies who ran Blubber King’s and other fast food outlets provided a needed service.

In the end, right now she was just trying to keep her outlet going. Meaty Monday was approaching and Di was determined to get a good night's rest before going all out tomorrow. She’d really see what the ponies of Sleipnir, and their appetites, were made of.