Profile
Café de Coral has attained "true international stature
with the group's restaurants branching out into overseas
and the larger China market". The first offshore
Café de Coral branch has been formed in Macau since 1992.
Another branches are successfully established in the southern
cities of Mainland China as well as in Guangzhou.
Product
The product positioning
of Café de Coral in Mainland China rests primarily in
the up-market menu range of sizzling steak and spring
chicken dinner sets which appeal to the prestige driven
local preference for an up-market western restaurant experience.
Place
The development of
Café de Coral in Mainland China is concentrated mainly
in the rich Kwangtung province. Branches are distributed
at major special economic zones and coastal cities of
Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Guangzhou, and regional town centres
of Foshan and Jiangmen.
People
Café de Coral has a total
staff number around one thousand, of which 96 percent
is local staff from Mainland China. Potential local staffs
with outstanding performance are trained to take up managerial
positions. Café de Coral has become the synonymy of quality
restaurant management in China.
Promotion
Café de Coral has long been
a household name among the Chinese population given its
Hong Kong television advertisements are well covered throughout
the southern China provinces. As such, any new product
launch or premium redmption has always become an instant
success.
Prospect
Café de Coral has developed
an amicable working relationship with the local China
government officials. The adopted mode of co-operative
joint venture and wholly foreign-owned enterprise has
provided the group the necessary management freedom and
total management control needed for restaurant operations
in China. It is part of the group's strategic plan to
steadily develop the China market to tap the vast potential
which this market can offer.