The restaurant industry in China: How brands rebuild margins after the price war
In the last quarter of 2025, Pizza Hut’s restaurants in China served 13% more customers than a year earlier. This marks twelve straight quarters of rising traffic, but earned about 11% less per customer. That was a deliberate trade that reflects a wider trend in the restaurant industry in China. Chinese restaurants fed more people […]
China Paradigm transcript #103: Running a crepe restaurant in Shanghai in a post-coronavirus context
Find here the China Paradigm 103. In this interview, Philippe Ricard the founder of La Creperie and La Cabane restaurants exposes the story of his restaurants in Asia and tells us about the challenges of running a crepe restaurant in Shanghai during the coronavirus outbreak. Full transcript below: Welcome to China Paradigm, a show powered […]
China Paradigm transcript #99: Business management in a crisis workshop: Running a restaurant in Shanghai
Find here the China paradigm episode 99. In this interview, Cotton Ding, owner of Cotton’s restaurant and bar shares her success story in China and discusses the challenges of running a restaurant in Shanghai during the coronavirus outbreak. Full transcript below: Welcome to China Paradigm, the show powered by Daxue Consulting where we interview season […]
The Catering Industry in China: A Flourishing Market
Companies in the Catering industry worldwide supply single-event food. As Chinese consumers increasingly enter the middle class, they are more likely to organize special events and book a catering service for those events such as holiday parties, business meeting, wedding receptions, and graduation dinners etc. The catering market is a specific industry where food service […]