Author: life-china

I want to know what’s going to happen in F&B in 2019. I don’t trust trend-forecasters or chefs or KOLs or people who have a lot of followers on Instagram to tell the future. I have this routine. Every morning, I get a raisin scone from Starbucks. Every morning, I peel it apart. The amount of raisins tells me about my day. Lots of raisins, day is going well. All scone dough and I go back home and give up. It’s not a bad predictor. It gives me a glimpse. But it’s not powerful enough. So I turned to...

Curse these crude Harry Potter-looking glass contraptions! I need something new. Something with style, something intellectual, but not like a dusty professor-type, something with a bit of je ne sais kwah. A dash of élan. Think Milton. Urkel. Dwight from the Office. Here are 10 places that might stock frames like those. We're excluding glasses markets. They can be a great option, but you risk crappy optometry, aggressive haggling, moody shopkeepers and getting shafted on the price tags. JINS (Reel Mall) Reel Mall, B1/F, 1601 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Changde Lu View ListingTaxi Printout ...

American seafood chain Red Lobster just opened its first restaurant in China, but it didn’t do it alone. Red Lobster needed a partner with the resources to manage the rollout of stores, maintain the brand’s identity and reputation, and make the necessary tweaks to take local tastes into account. At the same time, they wanted to work with a company that was not so big that Red Lobster might fall through the cracks. After two years of conversations, the chain picked Hong Kong-based FWM Restaurants to establish a joint venture. That’s right, it’s not a franchise; Red...