The Xinqiao Hotel was the first place to be abandoned after discussions among the three partners.
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 could actually be moved to the second floor of the Xinqiao Hotel.
As long as you are willing to pay the rent, it is no problem to leave the entire floor to you.
But the problem is that the Temple of Heaven Gardeners and Ning Weimin each have their own little ideas.
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 restaurant, and they didn't want to send it to their door and find a mother-in-law to look after them.
Therefore, both of them unanimously disliked the low floor of the Xinqiao Hotel.
One side said it was depressing, while the other side said it was impossible to hang the palace lantern.
Just like that, I rejected it quite decisively.
Therefore, 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 also willing to give Beishen Kitchen to the restaurant for free.
All conditions and benefits 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.
Frankly speaking, 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.
It is 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 of being full of 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 the same location, so the brand 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 "main wife", not even the "second concubine" can compare with it.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s located in a relatively quiet part of Nancheng and there’s a lack of parking lots.
Even if it’s the Tiantan Yushan Restaurant that blows its sign loudly.
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.
He compiled a total of 320 dishes of "Manchu-Han cuisine" and 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 cuisine" is always not as "authentic" as "imitation cuisine", which has become a rather puzzling and helpless problem.
To be honest, when Ning Weimin got rich in his previous life, he also tasted it once.
It's a pity that he was quite disappointed. He really didn't feel much royal nobility.
Maybe it's because he went there at the height of the campaign to curb the consumption of public funds.
When the major restaurants have the fewest customers, the price and service of Tiantan Yushan Restaurant are the best.
They have been reduced to the point where they are similar to popular dishes. It can only be said that people come here in pleasure 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 make a score of 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 need 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 Beishen Kitchen for the restaurant without charging rent, which is definitely a special benefit unique to this era.
It's a good thing that there is no such shop after passing through 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 Beihai's Fangshan Restaurant will have to move away from its birthplace - Yilantang and Daoningzhai.
Think about it, you are lucky enough to have a 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, the 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?
It is really 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? It will also cause damage to ancient relics and is not conducive to the protection of cultural relics?
In fact, there is no such moral issue.
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.
These days, it’s not that we shouldn’t talk about this, but we can’t talk about it because 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 okay and in relatively good condition.
This was once used by the garden as a reading room for a period of time, providing spiritual and cultural nourishment to 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 height of each hall's sill wall 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 what poverty means?
It was even more difficult to say later, since 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 park management office needs to raise the remaining part by 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 Cardin 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 is much better to have people 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 pictures on the bronze unicorn in the zoo, and use sharp objects to leave "visit here" wherever they go.
Low-quality behavior like this among tourists is the real damage to antiquities and disrespect for culture.
Therefore, 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 can definitely have 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 about 150,000 yuan. This does not include the cost of repairing other details inside the house.
Moreover, it is obvious that the restaurant is located in a 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 a matter of deep concern to the three partners.
It’s difficult, it’s indeed 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.