On January 30, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce issued the guidelines for dining in catering business places during the Spring Festival, which advocated reducing unnecessary meals. “If you can’t get together, you can’t get together, and if you can get together less, you can get together less.” If dining out, the guidelines advocate that citizens control the number and time of meals. Family private meals are generally controlled below 10 people, and the time of meals is generally controlled within 2 hours, so as to avoid long-time dinner and chat.
According to the current epidemic situation and prevention and control requirements, and comprehensively grasp the relationship between public consumption and epidemic prevention and control, Beijing has studied and formulated the guidelines for dining in catering business places during the Spring Festival, which defines the key matters that operators and consumers need to pay attention to and implement.
According to the guidelines, the epidemic control areas and control areas can meet the dining needs during the festival through customized takeout of new year’s dishes and contactless distribution of new year’s Eve meal packages. The guidelines advocate that citizens should control the number and time of meals when they go out for meals. Family private meals are generally controlled below 10 people and the time of meals is generally controlled within 2 hours. Operators should take the main responsibility for epidemic prevention and control, urge customers to implement the requirements of wearing masks, temperature measurement, code scanning registration and so on, and maintain a social distance from others. Diners should do a good job in personal protection, wear masks when leaving their seats or private rooms, pay attention to cough etiquette and hand hygiene.
The guidelines also put forward requirements for enterprise operation and service management. Tables, chairs and toilets in private rooms should be fully cleaned and disinfected before turning the table every time, and offline collective promotion activities should not be organized. Adhere to the same prevention of people, strengthen the management of imported cold chain food and imported fruits in accordance with relevant regulations, and block all kinds of risk loopholes in prevention and control.
According to the statistics of Beijing Catering Industry Association, more than 100 brand catering enterprises and nearly 1000 stores in the city participated in the activity of “New Year’s Eve dinner to your home”, and nearly 80% of enterprises launched new year’s Eve dinner gift box services, including taking out new year’s Eve dinner finished products, semi-finished products, New Year gift boxes, stewing to home service and other forms. As of January 30, the reservation rate of new year’s Eve meal private room in the store has exceeded 90%, the maximum reservation turnover rate has reached 3 times, and the reservation rate in the hall is about 45%. Affected by the epidemic, the unsubscribe rate of the new year’s Eve meal of the hall food is about 17%, and 20% of the unsubscribed customers choose to send the new year’s Eve meal to their home for service.
In order to help citizens and catering enterprises jointly fight the “epidemic” and advocate citizens to “reduce food in the hall and pack home”, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce jointly launched a series of “home” measures with China Construction Bank Corporation(601939) Beijing Branch, launched the “New Year’s Eve dinner to your home” New Year’s food activity, and enriched citizens’ holiday tables. On New Year’s Eve, citizens participate in the activity of “New Year’s Eve dinner to your home” through the “CCB life” app. They use the “one yuan overlord meal, 50% discount” to consume and pack new year’s Eve dinner at businesses such as Daya pear, Xiaodiao pear soup, Oriental Dumpling King, Huizhen kitchen, Qiqi, wangshunge, Yunhai cuisine, China Quanjude(Group) Co.Ltd(002186) , Beiping restaurant and so on, You can get the exclusive coupon of “200 yuan minus 100 yuan” in the store.
