Luxury restaurants adapt to hard times
By Wang Zhuoqiong and Li Woke | China Daily | Updated: 2013-06-01 08:13
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Wuhan Huatian Hotel offers an outdoor buffet to passers-by as the five-star hotel tries to beat declining sales in the high-end catering sector in the wake of the government crackdown on extravagant banquets using public money. Sun Xinming / for China Daily |
China Quanjude Group - the owner of Beijing's renowned roast duck restaurant - was so popular for so many years that it didn't need to have promotional items on the menu.
But that has changed. To cope with the slowest growth seen in the catering industry in a decade, the restaurant now offers a 20 percent discount to customers who eat on the premises, according to Xing Ying, general manager of China Quanjude Group.
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