Posted on 02/11/2022 1:59:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Chinese restaurant Big World in the Danish town of Grindsted is up for sale. The reason is that the Chinese owners can not get Chinese chefs to Denmark, media JydskeVestkysten writes.
The Chinese couple Feng Lin and Yao Gong Yan are both from Fu Jian province in southern China. Lin came to Denmark in 1997 and Gong followed in 2002 and in 2014 they opened the Restaurant Big World.
The couple explains that they have been forced to put the restaurant up for sale.
“We have been forced to put the restaurant in Grindsted up for sale. Not because the restaurant runs poorly, because it does not, but because we can not get Chinese chefs to Denmark. We have tried with Danish chefs, but they can not make the Chinese dishes that we have. We are constantly searching for Chinese chefs,” Lin Feng says.
Right now, the Chinese couple has chefs for the restaurant in Grindsted, so it runs as usual. “But in a year and a half, we will be short of chefs, as those we have now will start their own businesses,” Lin Feng explains.
She does not hope that it will be necessary to close Big World in Grindsted. “We are fighting not to close, and we are trying to find a solution,” Lin Feng says.
Lin Feng says that there has not yet been anyone interested in looking at the restaurant which seats 150 guests.
The sales ad from Restaurantsalg.dk states that the restaurant’s total area is 420 square meters, where the 242 square meters are restaurant and serving. The turnover is DKK 4.5 million a year, and the restaurant and premises are set at DKK 1.8 million.
Although no one has been to look at the restaurant yet, Business broker Søren Klein from Restaurantsalg.dk who is responsible for the sale, says that the sales material has been downloaded 120 times so there is definitely an interest.
No shortage of Greek Diners in the U.S. that aren’t run by Greeks.
A lot of the Chinese restaurants where I am have hispanics in the kitchen. Lol!
Michael Savage once said he didn’t like to eat at Italian restaurants in SF because the cooks were from Guatemala.
The Chinese chefs in our town are Mexican.
Why should it stop them? Never saw a Chinese employee at Panda express.
Just reposition it in the market as a Danish-Asian “fusion” place and you can serve whatever you want.
“Ancient Chinese secret!” aka MSG.
My closest Chinese restaurant has Mexicans cooking in the back! Food’s not bad, but I will drive 25 miles for Peeking Duck.
Maybe they should get the ice skater who fell down twice for the Chinese - I’d bet SHE’S available...
How do you prove you aren’t vaccinated?
Hispanics work in all of the ones around here.
Where I am, the pizzerias and Italian restaurants are run by the Albanians. Close enough, I suppose. Anyway, the idea that you can’t teach a Dane the techniques and recipes of Chinese cooking is just silly. Sounds more like a leadership problem.
What’s wrong with the Danes? I worked in a Chinese restaurant as a kid. Learning authentic Chinese cooking (well, authentic Chinese restaurant cooking anyway) is not rocket science. I can make all the basic dishes one would expect from a NYC Chinese Restaurant at home. It really isn’t difficult. I’m making Chicken With Cashew Nuts for my family tonight, in fact. It’s quick, easy, and everyone loves it.
When my ship came into San Pedro there was a true Italian restaurant I loved to go to. It was upscale. The neighborhood changed and they left just about the time I no longer went to that port.
Or is it for lack of cats?
Two of the Chinese restaurants in Foley, Alabama are owned by a lady that escaped the killing field. She’s not Chinese though, she is from Cambodia or Laos.
the idea that you can’t teach a Dane the techniques and recipes of Chinese cooking is just silly
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But the pay they want might be higher than you would agree.
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