Chapter 460 Choose one of the two
The Xinqiao Hotel was the first place to be abandoned by the three partners after discussion.
After all, for a high-end high-end restaurant, lack of space is a flaw.
Although Qiao Wanlin, on behalf of the Service Bureau, also proposed an alternative idea, saying that the restaurant can actually be moved to the second floor of the Xinqiao Hotel.
As long as you are willing to pay the rent, it’s no problem to leave the entire floor to you.
But the problem is that the Temple of Heaven Garden and Ning Weimin each have their own little thoughts.
One party felt that the location was too far away from his home, and was worried that he would be out of reach and would not be able to take advantage of it.
The other party felt that the location was too close to the soon-to-open Maxim's restaurant, and they didn't want to send it to their door and find a mother-in-law to take care of them.
So both of them disliked the Xinqiao Hotel for being too low.
One side said it was depressing, and the other side said it was impossible to hang the palace lantern.
Just like that, I rejected it quite decisively.
So the only multiple-choice question that really needs to be done is to choose between No. 87 Tiantan North Road and Beishen Kitchen in Tiantan Park.
But it is really difficult to make a final decision on this issue.
Even if the three parties have held several meetings.
Although the hardware store quickly made it clear that they would move out for 50,000 yuan, Tiantan Garden was willing to give Beishen Kitchen to the restaurant for free.
All conditions and discounts have been clearly laid out.
But no one is sure about the pros and cons of these two places for the future development of restaurants.
To be honest, Ning Weimin actually knows the standard answer given by history.
In his previous life, before he got rich, he had rented a bungalow in Ciqikou for a period of time, which was very close to Tiantan North Road.
So not only did he know that the final address of Tiantan Yushan Restaurant was No. 87, Tiantan North Road.
He also knew that this restaurant only opened in the late 1980s.
As the third restaurant in Beijing that sells palace-style dishes after Beihai Fangshan Restaurant and Tingliguan Restaurant in the Summer Palace.
Although it only caught up with the last train of Japan’s bubble era, this restaurant also enjoyed a good time with full seats for several years.
Later, with the collapse of Japan's economy, the domestic private economy also ushered in a major explosion.
Although as a member of the state-owned catering industry, the restaurant began to inevitably decline.
However, price reforms, labor system adjustments, restrictions on public consumption and epidemic disasters have not completely destroyed this restaurant, and it has still managed to survive.
Until he traveled through time, this restaurant was still operating at its original location, so the sign was still there.
But the problem is, this "mistress" is always "mistress".
Not to mention that it is always difficult to win the color of the "major wife", not even the "second concubine" can compare with it.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s in a relatively quiet part of Nancheng and there’s a lack of parking lots.
Even if it’s the Tiantan Yushan Restaurant, the signboard is loud.
Although the store invited Aisin Gioro Fu Jie to unveil the inscription when it opened, he dared to write "authentic imperial cuisine" in a grand manner.
And in the subsequent process of advocating the "Manchu-Han Banquet", they indeed spared no effort.
Compiled a total of 320 dishes of "Manchu-Han cuisine" and compiled more than ten kinds of gimmicks for royal banquets.
Of the three palace restaurants, it is definitely the one that puts the most effort into it and pulls off the most stunts.
However, since its opening, the Temple of Heaven's Imperial Restaurant has been firmly suppressed by the other two palace restaurants in terms of business performance and reputation, and has never been able to turn around.
Not only are the food prices set lower than the other two, but the turnover is not as high as the other two, and even the reputation among customers is not as good as those two.
"Imperial meal" is always not as "authentic" as "fake meal", which has become a rather puzzling and helpless problem.
To be honest, Ning Weimin also tasted it once in his previous life after he got rich.
Unfortunately, he was quite disappointed. He really didn't feel much royal nobility.
Perhaps it's because he went there at the height of the campaign to curb the consumption of public funds.
When the number of customers at major restaurants is at its lowest, the price and service of Tiantan Yushan Restaurant are the best.
It has been reduced to the point where it is similar to popular dishes. It can only be said that people come here in joy and return disappointed.
So for this Jing'er today, Ning Weimin really didn't dare to save trouble on this reclamation festival, so he just took this step casually.
Out of the arrogance and pride of a time traveler, he did not want to get 60% by copying history homework.
I still want to break through the original pattern and achieve some amazing results. To put it bluntly, it’s boring to do what others have done as it is!
Of course you have to understand the "feng shui" characteristics of this place and figure out how to solve the original constraints.
Similarly, it should be said that the Temple of Heaven Park is willing to use Northern God Kitchen for the restaurant without charging rent, which is definitely a special benefit unique to this era.
The good thing is that there is no such store after passing this village.
In another thirty years, let alone how high the rent will be.
It means that all parks, including parks, are no longer allowed to use landscape land for commercial purposes if they want to spend money.
By then, even Fangshan Restaurant in Beihai will have to move away from its birthplace - Yilantang and Daoningzhai.
Think about it, I am lucky enough to be able to host palace catering at Beishen Kitchen, and even the house is an antique. What kind of pomp is this?
Using such a house to entertain customers, culture and history can increase the level of the meal, and the asking price will be confident.
Wouldn't it be a pity not to use it?
This is a very exciting thing for Ning Weimin personally.
That is simply as commendable as his unexpected luck in becoming the person in charge of the Zhai Palace Exhibition Hall. It is an achievement that can be boasted for a lifetime.
As for doing this, is it too disrespectful to our history and culture? Will it also cause damage to ancient relics and be detrimental to the protection of cultural relics?
In fact, there is no such moral problem.
The ancients said, "If you have a solid warehouse, you will know the etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you will know the honor and disgrace."
This means that human spiritual civilization must first be based on certain material conditions.
In this day and age, it’s not that we shouldn’t talk about these things, but that we can’t talk about them because the society as a whole is too poor.
Take the Northern Divine Kitchen and the Sacrifice Pavilion as examples. There are two courtyards and five halls in total.
Before the 1960s, the house was OK and in relatively good condition.
This place was once used by the garden as a reading room for a period of time, providing spiritual and cultural nourishment for the people, especially children.
But at that time it was because of lack of funds to add modern lighting conditions.
In order to ensure sufficient indoor light, the sill walls of each hall had to be lowered from 1.5 meters to 1.2 meters.
Even the windowless north wall of the North Hall has windows.
Isn’t this just a matter of poverty?
It was even more difficult to say later, as these houses had never been significantly renovated.
Some house purlins are becoming increasingly decayed, especially the glazed tiles and floor tiles that are most seriously damaged.
In the end, Beishen Kitchen and Slaughterhouse were forced to close completely.
You must know that the park is a public institution with differential funding.
The government finance can only cover part of the funds, and the remaining part needs to be raised by the park management office itself.
This is something completely impossible to do. If you don’t have money, how can you talk about protecting cultural relics?
Therefore, like the Temple of Heaven Park, leasing the Zhai Palace to Pierre Carton Company is actually a kind of protection of ancient buildings.
At least enough funds can be raised to repair and maintain ancient buildings.
It may be said that there is no solution, or it may be said that it is a compromise with reality.
It’s much better to have everyone tighten their belts and watch the ancient buildings rot and be abandoned!
If it really comes down to someone who deserves control, he should be severely punished.
On the contrary, those who ride on the bronze bull in the Summer Palace, take photos on the bronze unicorn in the zoo, and use sharp objects to leave "visit here" wherever they go.
Such low-quality behavior among tourists is the real damage to antiquities and disrespect for culture.
So if Beishen Kitchen can really be selected as a restaurant site, it will be a result that the Temple of Heaven Park is happy to see, and it is also the most beneficial result for us to protect our national cultural heritage.
Ning Weimin definitely has a clear conscience.
But precisely for this reason, this plan requires the largest budget investment. The cost of repairing the main structure of the house is approximately 150,000 yuan. This does not include the cost of repairing other details inside the house.
Obviously, the restaurant is located within the park scenic area. Due to the inconvenience of access, it will not be able to attract customers like the restaurants on the street, and it will not be easy to build a signboard and name.
Will this be thankless and difficult to attract customers, leading to bleak business?
This has become another issue of deep concern to the three partners.
It’s difficult, it’s really difficult! Although it's either A or B.
But this decision can fundamentally affect the fate of the restaurant, so we have to be cautious.
(End of this chapter)