China Overseas Chinese Network, July 12 Question: Britain gradually "unblocked" where is the Chinese restaurant?

  The British government announced that it will implement the fourth "unblocking" on July 4. This is the largest and most comprehensive "unblocking" of various industries in the UK since the blockade. For the practitioners of local Chinese restaurants in the UK, the business that has been affected since the beginning of the year has finally begun to improve...

Responding to the epidemic, "strokes" Chinese businessmen struggle to survive

  During the epidemic, the most affected was the local Chinese restaurant industry in Britain. In the past three months or so, after experiencing various difficulties such as business damage, closing doors and closing stores, Chinese businessmen still strive to overcome the difficulties with strong willpower and flexible management methods.

Data map: London Chinatown before the blockade. (British "Huawen Weekly")

  The Chinese restaurant "Home·Shanghai" in Chinatown of London has turned the restaurant into a material storage base during the epidemic since March. In order to facilitate the access and distribution of anti-epidemic materials, the boss took the initiative to turn the restaurant into a warehouse. The shop owner Deng Zhuting said that as a member of British society, he hopes to contribute his own strength.

  During the epidemic, a Chinese restaurant located in Sheffield suffered a huge blow to the business during the epidemic. In order to alleviate business losses, the restaurant could only rely on the takeaway business on the platform to survive. In order to give back to Chinese students who have been placing orders, the restaurant will also give masks after the students spend a certain amount of money. With the gradual unblocking in the UK, the shop owner said that the layout of the restaurant will be adjusted to ensure the privacy and safety of customers who dine in the future.

Data map: British subway in the epidemic. (Zhongxin)

  London's Hunan Restaurant "Miqilin" also started to take out food when Britain was completely closed in late March. After that, due to the closure of the city, many people had difficulty in purchasing, and the store started the fresh food delivery business on WeChat. Within a few days, the WeChat applet platform was established. One week later, the registration on the platform The number of people has reached 1500, and there are more than ten orders per day. The second store in Chinatown has also become a temporary sorting center.

  In addition to opening up the take-out business, some Chinese restaurant operators also choose to close their shops for repair. The Chinese restaurant “Royal Court”, which has been in business in London for more than 9 years, chose to close its business in the early days of the outbreak of the British epidemic, and gave away frozen food ingredients left in the shop as love bags to the local Chinese. The person in charge Kevin said that the choice to renovate the store is to give customers a new feeling after opening, and will not increase prices afterwards, I believe that the dark period can always pass.

The Chinese food practitioners who are ready to operate the border and epidemic are ready

  Britain launched the fourth unblocking, indicating that all walks of life have begun to recover, and people's lives have gradually returned to normal. For many Chinese food practitioners, they have long been looking forward to this day and they are all ready. To celebrate the lifting of the blockade, Chinatown London held a series of activities after a three-month blockade period. Some restaurants in Chinatown are also issuing discount coupons at the event site to attract more people to patronize.

Data picture: July 8, Bristol, United Kingdom, the artist painted a heart-shaped pattern on the grass of Queens Square, urging people to maintain social distance. (Zhongxin)

  Xiong Peng, a partner of "Miqilin" said that they will continue to take out food after reopening the dinning. "Our desks and tables will be distributed as much as possible. For guests without masks, we will also provide guests with free masks, and encourage customers to scan their orders with their mobile phones, so as to minimize contact between customers and the floor."

  The person in charge of Happy Lamb Hotpot said that after many days of entanglement, their team unanimously chose to reopen and took a series of measures to deal with the new policy after the closure. They set up a guest entry registration system. In the case of a large number of customers, you can scan the QR code to line up, so that you can notify the guests to eat in advance through mobile phone text messages, avoiding the situation where customers gather and wait at the front door.

Happy Lamb set up an independent, non-contact inductive hand sanitizer at the door, and attached a ground sticker for drainage. (Provided by the interviewee)

  Sherry, head of T4, a well-known British tea shop, said that in order to better adapt to the post-epidemic market in the UK, T4 as a whole mainly focused on adjusting store hygienic requirements and passenger flow management, and specific measures were implemented in accordance with the government’s normative manual. In order to reduce the queue time for some stores, a mobile ordering system was also developed.

Be cautious about unsealing Chinese businessmen

  As the UK enters a new phase of unsealing, a small number of Chinese food practitioners are still worried about the future. A Chinese buffet owner said that even if the government allows the cafeteria to open, he does not intend to open the door. He said that although the social distance has dropped from 2 meters to more than 1 meter after the restaurant opened, it is still a lot less than the original restaurant's capacity, so now the door will definitely lose money.

  The Chinese restaurant "Jinli" has two branches in Chinatown. Martin, general manager of Jinli, said that their customers are mainly Chinese students. "Recently many students have returned to China recently, so we will first look at the situation. If the business is good, we will open the flagship store in Chinatown." In addition, they will use disposable tableware and menus, and take a table and a table Guest way to maintain social distance. "

Data picture: Before the blockade, customers lined up in front of the old Jinli shop in Chinatown, London. (Provided by the interviewee)

  Mr. Li (pseudonym), another Chinese owner who runs four buffet restaurants, also said: "No one will go to restaurants now, unless everyone has no new cases of pneumonia in the UK, how can everyone feel confident to eat? many."

  He said that although the restaurant is not open for business now, the rent and service fee payable are quite a lot. He can only gritt his teeth and continue to close the door, "planning to open the door until the end of the year."

  The restart of the United Kingdom is the long-awaited good news for most people, but there are also concerns about the prevention and control of the epidemic and the recovery of business after the unblocking. Regardless of the way forward, after the test of the epidemic, the Chinese food industry will become stronger.

  (Source: China News Agency, China News Network, the British, "China News Weekly", "European Times" and so on; Author: Zeng Serena; ID: qiaowangzhongguo)