【New Year Chronicle】Wuhan citizens "Chinese New Year on the spot"
[Explanation] "'Online New Year's dinner' has become a popular trend in Wuhan Spring Festival." In response to the initiative to "reduce gatherings" and at the same time meet the catering consumption needs of the masses of "Chinese New Year in situ", Wuhan Catering Industry Association cooperated with multiple platforms to organize online During the New Year's Day, new service methods such as "pick-up at the store", "order to home", "mobile New Year meal", and "portable group annual banquet" are adopted to reduce the gathering of people through contactless payment and contactless service mode delivery.
[Concurrent] Liu Guoliang, President of Wuhan Catering Association
In order to respond to the government's call to reduce gatherings at home for the New Year, I think everyone is a conscious act of protection and hard-won anti-epidemic results.
This is why China has become the safest country and Wuhan has become the fundamental guarantee for the safest city.
So in this context, many restaurants initiated the concept of portable group dinner. We cooked all the cooked dishes, which is equivalent to 0,.9 food. He went back and added a warm steam, heat, and fry. , You can eat this kind of reunion dinner, which sells very well.
Chinese New Year at home has become a new fashion in the Year of the Ox this year.
[Explanation] The reporter recently came to the Sheraton Grand Hotel Hankou, Wuhan, and saw that the lobby of the hotel was full of Spring Festival couplets and red lanterns. The citizens came to book Chinese New Year dinners one after another.
It is worth mentioning that this year, Sheraton Hankou Hotel has launched the "New Year's Eve Dinner" service. The staff will act as the "God of Wealth" and deliver the New Year's Eve dinner freshly prepared by the chef.
[Explanation] Yan Li, Operation Director of Sheraton Hankou Hotel, introduced that under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, "Fin to Home" is the hotel's first service this year to respond to market changes.
"New Year's Eve Dinner" has two packages: "Five Blessings" and "Seven Stars Gaozhao Banquet". Customers only need to make a reservation in advance and place an online order to bring the New Year's Eve dinner home.
[Concurrent] Yan Li, Operations Director of Sheraton Hankou Hotel
This year, because of the epidemic, it is advocating to reduce gatherings and celebrate the New Year on the spot.
So this year we also specially launched this online booking.
It is to deliver the New Year's meal to home, so overall, the online ratio will be better than offline when booking this year's New Year meal.
Our entire online New Year meal reservations up to yesterday may account for 70% to 80% of my entire New Year meal reservations.
At the same time, we also make our employees pretend to be the God of Wealth, and then send this New Year meal to the guests' homes, bringing them blessings of auspiciousness and happiness.
[Explanation] Wuhan Little Blue Whale Hotel is a local hotel. In 2006, it launched the "Handheld Group Annual Banquet".
Liu Fangjiao, assistant to the general manager of the Little Blue Whale Hotel (Acrobatics Hall), told reporters that this year's "portable group annual banquet" was particularly popular, more than 40% of previous years, and many regular customers have booked since New Year's Day.
The dishes of the "Portable Group Annual Banquet" are all semi-finished products and only need simple processing.
In order to encourage citizens to eat at home, the store lowered the price of the "portable group annual banquet", ranging from 388 yuan to 988 yuan, including more than ten dishes, which was popular among citizens.
[Concurrent] Liu Fangjiao, Assistant General Manager, Little Blue Whale Hotel (Acrobatics Hall)
Our portable group annual banquet has this operation manual. For example, if you don’t know how to cook, you can directly process it again according to his operation manual and you can eat it directly.
[Explanation] It is understood that many restaurants and five-star hotels have tried to deliver New Year’s Eve dinners in the past, but more guests are still used to eating in the hotel to create an environment, lively and atmosphere.
This year, in response to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, more people eat New Year's dinner at home, and "New Year's Eve dinner delivery" has also become popular.
Because the operating expenses of the front hall of the store are removed, the price is generally lower than the price of the star-rated annual meal in the store.
Reporter Zheng Ziyan reports from Wuhan, Hubei
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]