The specific history of Guangzhou Restaurant is as follows:

1. Brief introduction

1. Guangzhou Restaurant was founded in 1931s, formerly known as Southwest Restaurant. In 1935, Xing-hai Chen, the owner of Yingji Tea House on Guangfu South Road, took a fancy to this place and opened a restaurant here, named Southwest Restaurant because its location faces southwest. The restaurant was destroyed by fire in 1938.

2. In the winter of 1941, Xing-hai Chen, Guan Lemin, Liao Bi and others gathered shares to rebuild their business, and renamed Southwest Restaurant "Guangzhou Grand Restaurant" with the meaning of "Eating in Guangzhou". In February, 1951, Guangzhou Restaurant closed down, and then resumed business at the expense of Cai Weihan. In February 1956, it became a state-owned enterprise after public-private partnership.

2. Guangzhou Restaurant

1. Guangzhou Restaurant is a high-class hotel in Guangzhou, which was founded in 1935 and is known as "the first restaurant in Guangzhou". Guangzhou Restaurant, formerly known as Southwest Grand Hotel, is located in the northeast corner of the intersection of Xiajiu Road, Shifu Road, Wenchang Road and Shifu Road in Guangzhou, facing southwest and overlooking all directions.

2. This is the most prosperous place in Xiguan. Within 1.5 km, the sections of Taiping, Fengning (now Renmin Road), Dade, Yide, Huifu, Daxin and Huiai (now Zhongshan Sixth Road) in Donghan City are connected to Thirteen Lines, Xidi and Shamian in the south and the "Three Treasures" (Baohua, Baoyuan and Huiai) in the west.

3. There are many shops of money houses, gold shops, foreign trade shops, silks and satins, sour branches and furniture, and thousands of merchants come here, selling husbands like crucian carp. Coupled with the wind of scholarly family formed over thousands of years, there are many houses and mansions, rich businessmen, officials and old people, and Xiguan is rich and young, so doing business here can be described as "unique" and occupies the best geographical position.

4. Business scope: Guangzhou Restaurant was founded in 1935, and its head office is located at the intersection of Wenchang South Road and Xiajiu Road in Guangzhou. It is famous for its traditional Cantonese cuisine and is known as "the first restaurant in Guangzhou". Guangzhou Restaurant started to operate in a chain in the mid-1981s, and set up an enterprise group in the early 1991s. Its main business formats are Cantonese catering service, food industry management and property leasing.

5. Guangzhou Restaurant has developed from an old restaurant with assets of more than 411,111 yuan in the early days to a number of restaurants, a large food production base and dozens of chain food stores all over the city, with 3,111 employees and total assets of 1 billion yuan.