{"id":8660,"date":"2013-01-25T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2021-04-23T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:08:21","slug":"hong-kongs-queen-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/hong-kongs-queen-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong’s Queen of Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The restaurant business is a notoriously tricky one, with high failure rates — experts say between 60 to 80 percent — and many new restaurants closing within the first year.<\/p>\n

But one woman has managed to build up a successful restaurant empire, King Parrot Group<\/a>, that includes over 40 restaurants employing over 1,000 people in one of the food capitals of the world.<\/p>\n

When Anna Chau started in the industry, Hong Kong featured primarily Chinese restaurants; foreign cuisines were limited to mainly French and Italian.<\/p>\n

Today, the travel book Fodor<\/a> says that no other city boasts \u201cquite as eclectic a dining scene as the one in Hong Kong.\u201d And in their 2013 guide, Michelin inspectors said that they found many new stars in the city, as well as a wide variety of restaurants offering many different styles of cooking.<\/p>\n

Chau was pivotal in opening up Hong Kong’s culinary scene — with her first endeavor she brought Spanish food to the island in the form of El Cid, a restaurant she opened in 1992. Russian, Thai, Lebanese and many more types of cuisines and styles of cooking have followed.<\/p>\n

So how has Chau succeed in a highly competitive industry that requires incredibly long days, constant cash flow and extremely high staff turnover?<\/p>\n

Watch Chau in action in the video profile above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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