China News Service, Foshan, April 20th. Title: YMCA's "net celebrity" restaurants are all over the Greater Bay Area: Step out of your comfort zone and experience a different life

　　China News Agency reporter Yang Chengchen

　　"Each city has its own uniqueness. In the Lingnan area, there are small changes in the food tastes of different places. We must grasp the characteristics of different cities. Then take time to research and make corresponding adjustments to be'picky' The catering industry provides more precise services."

　　Hong Kong youths Li Guoming and Ye Weijun opened a creative restaurant and bar in Foshan's commercial pedestrian street Lingnan Tiandi in 2016.

After 5 years of operation, the restaurant has now become a well-known Internet celebrity store in Guangdong, with 11 branches in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhuhai and other cities in the Greater Bay Area.

　　"I really never thought that in just 5 years, the restaurant could reach this scale." Li Guoming told a reporter from China News Agency that when he started his business, he was doing one thing well; then he found that if you concentrate on doing it well, there will be many Opportunities take the initiative to find you and "push you forward"; then, the goal of hard work will become higher and higher.

　　"The entrepreneurial process is not all smooth sailing. We have overcome many difficulties. In the first few years, we must persist in doing what we most want to do at the beginning of our business. When we survive the difficulties, we will do more smoothly." Li Guoming believes that the development of the catering business is currently It's not about success yet, but for the time being, I can see "a better chance."

　　As for how to seize the opportunity, in his view, it is to keep up with the pace of development of the Greater Bay Area.

"When we first came, we did not have the concept of the Greater Bay Area. Now, the cities in the region have more and more comprehensive policies to help enterprises. It can be said that our business has met the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Golden time."

　　Li Guoming and Ye Weijun are university classmates and both studied hotel management in Australia. "When we were in school, we started thinking about opening a store."

After graduating and returning to work in Hong Kong, the idea of ​​starting a business has not been obliterated, but the high cost made it difficult for the two to realize their dream.

In the past few years, Li Guoming and Ye Weijun often visited Hong Kong exhibitions to learn about opportunities for entrepreneurship in the Mainland.

　　In 2016, Li Guoming and Ye Weijun opened a restaurant in Foshan.

Li Guoming found that, compared to Hong Kong, mainland cities are places that allow young people to make mistakes and allow young people to develop more potential.

"Foshan, Guangzhou, Dongguan and other places are not far away. The experience of doing business in one place can be copied relatively easily in other cities, which is impossible in Hong Kong."

　　Nowadays, many young people in Hong Kong are still hesitating whether to step out of their comfort zone to find development opportunities.

When asked what kind of advice he could give his peers, Li Guoming said, "They can read our story."

　　"Our parents are not businessmen, and we didn't get much help in the early start of the business. But we are willing to come out to see, learn, and re-enter to live in other cities. We don't use too many constraints to limit ourselves." He also said, If you go to a local city in the Greater Bay Area to experience it, you may find a very different life experience from the original.

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