Guangzhou Restaurant, an old morning tea brand that started from 1939, has experienced such a marked decline.

Guangzhou Restaurant was established on 1939. After the reform and opening up, Guangzhou restaurants actively developed chain operation. The scale of the enterprise has developed from one store to a large-scale catering enterprise group with 6 high-class restaurants, 1 large food production bases and more than 30 chain food shopping malls, with total assets exceeding 400 million yuan, ranking first in the country. Guangzhou Restaurant has more than 2,000 employees and 666 technicians with intermediate titles or above, including senior cooking technician 19, senior pastry chef 15 and senior service technician 13. Many people have won prizes in previous national and world cooking competitions. Guangzhou Restaurant used to be Xiguan Wenchang Temple and Hongsheng Temple. It was demolished during road construction in 192 1 year. Businessmen Xing-hai Chen, Yu Hanmou and his younger brother Ji Gu opened a southwest restaurant here, and hired Quan Zhong, a chef known as the "Southern Chef King", to cook [1]. When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, the restaurant was destroyed and renamed Guangzhou Restaurant after reopening. On the eve of liberation, the boss moved to Hong Kong and Cai resumed his IPO. 65438-0956, the first Guangzhou Famous Cuisine Exhibition was held in Guangzhou Restaurant. Famous chef Wu Man and famous pastry chef Shui Dongling all participated in the exhibition and were well received. During the Canton Fair every year, there are many guests, and the reputation of "the first food in Guangzhou" is well-known at home and abroad. Excellent works such as "Maotai Chicken" and "One Palm Determines the Country" are well received by the guests. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, manager Wen Qifu and others presided over the comprehensive reform and expansion of the restaurant, copied the "Manchu-Chinese Complete Collection" with Chinese national symbols, and imitated the "Five Dynasties Banquet" of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and various dishes with local flavor in the north and south. 1997, the restaurant has 19 enterprises, making it the only national second-class enterprise in the catering service industry in Guangdong Province.

Guangzhou Restaurant was founded in 1930s, formerly known as Southwest Restaurant. 1935, Xing-hai Chen, the owner of Ying Ji Tea House on Guangfu South Road, took a fancy to this place and opened a restaurant here, which was named Southwest Restaurant because it was located in the southwest. The restaurant was destroyed by fire. /kloc-in the winter of 0/940, Xing-hai Chen, Guan Lemin, Liao Bi and others got together to rebuild their career and renamed Southwest Restaurant Guangzhou Restaurant, which meant "eating in Guangzhou". 1950 February, Guangzhou restaurant closed down, and then resumed business at the expense of Cai. 1956 became a state-owned enterprise after the public-private partnership in February. From the end of 1950s to the end of 1970s, in the case of shortage of raw materials in the catering industry, Guangzhou restaurants, on the one hand, developed substitutes such as melons, vegetables and sweet potatoes as wrapping points and fillings to ensure public supply; On the other hand, he studied cooking techniques and created famous dishes for the Canton Fair.

The classic food "Man-Han Banquet" originated from the court in the middle of Qing Dynasty. It combines the cooking essence of Manchu and Han, and is a wonderful flower in China's food culture. Its rare materials, superb skills, exquisite utensils and complicated ostentation and extravagance are among the few in the history of world cooking, so it is called "the first banquet in the world". Guangzhou Restaurant has presented "Man-Han Banquet", with 108 items * * *, taking the number of thirty-six highest day and seventy-two earth monsters as all-encompassing, including the meaning of everything in the world and flying animals and plants, for guests to enjoy for four meals. Among them, the fruits and vegetables of the four seasons are mixed with water and land, cold, hot, salty and sweet, carefully cooked, and the "flying" has the northeast dragon bird; "dive" includes abalone, ginseng, wings, belly and fresh seafood; "Moving" has Harba; "Species" include Hericium erinaceus and bamboo shoots. The food has profound implications, such as "Kirin sends the child", "Dragon and Horse Spirit", "Taste the fragrance of heaven", "deserved" and "Longevity of Haifu".

? For a long time, the operation of Guangzhou Restaurant Group has developed steadily and achieved good economic benefits. Profits and taxes have increased substantially for many years, making due contributions to the financial revenue of provinces and cities. Guangzhou Restaurant has also been rated as "model taxpayer" and "big taxpayer" by provincial and municipal finance and taxation departments for many times. In addition, the chefs of Guangzhou Restaurant have participated in international cooking competitions on behalf of the country for many times, with excellent results, and won many world prizes and won honors for the country. The "Man-Han Banquet", carefully prepared by restaurant chefs, is well-known overseas, attracting many customers and even becoming one of the must-see projects in Guangzhou. It can be said that Guangzhou Restaurant not only created economic benefits for the country and society, but also made great contributions to deepening the understanding between China and other countries in the name of "food". Facing the achievements, Guangzhou Catering Enterprise Group is not satisfied. Instead, we will continue to give full play to the pioneering and innovative spirit of Guangzhou Restaurant, take greater and more solid steps of reform, confidently meet the new challenges of 2 1 century with the appearance of state-owned enterprises in the new era, and create a better tomorrow for Guangzhou Restaurant.