In recent years, the scale of Beijing time-honored restaurants has been expanding, the benefits have been steadily improved, and the sense of innovation has been enhanced. However, there are also some problems, such as attaching importance to development and neglecting inheritance, imperfect skill inheritance system, rigid system and mechanism, lack of standards and norms, and brain drain of skilled personnel, which lead to changes in the taste of dishes and decline in quality to varying degrees. A few days ago, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce, the Beijing Municipal Finance Bureau and other six departments issued the "Work Plan on Promoting the Inheritance of Time-honored Restaurant Skills and Maintaining the Original Flavor", aiming at basically establishing the pedigree of Beijing time-honored restaurant inheritance through this plan, continuing the original flavor of signature dishes and inheriting the traditional skills of time-honored restaurant in an orderly manner.

It is understood that the plan puts forward six main tasks: basically establishing the pedigree of Beijing time-honored brands, establishing the system and mechanism for cultivating inheritors, encouraging inheritors to accept apprentices, carrying out skills inheritance activities, promoting standardization construction and strengthening publicity and promotion.

The foundation of enterprise development lies in talents, and the planning particularly highlights the concern for the inheritors of time-honored brands. According to the plan, the trade association organizes and commends a number of "Beijing time-honored restaurant chefs" (tentative names) every year. The recognized "Beijing Time-honored Restaurant Chefs" are included in the Beijing Commercial System Expert Database as experts in the catering field, and relevant departments will also actively organize the time-honored restaurant chefs to participate in the selection of special allowances for technicians of the Beijing Municipal Government and enjoy corresponding treatment. In order to encourage young people to inherit the skills of time-honored brands and encourage time-honored catering enterprises to resume the traditional apprenticeship ceremony. Establish rules and regulations, gradually reform the existing collective inheritance mechanism, ensure the decision-making power of skill inheritors when choosing apprentices, encourage skill inheritors to teach with apprentices in cooking school, let more young people learn the traditional catering skills of time-honored brands, and realize the "sharing, inheritance, learning and inheritance" of time-honored catering skills forever.

In addition, in order to promote the standardized development of time-honored enterprises, Beijing will explore the dual-track system of signature dishes, solve the contradiction between modern large-scale production and traditional handicraft skills, identify a number of signature dishes demonstration stores, and promote industry exchanges. It will also play the role of industry associations and expert database, support industry associations to formulate Beijing cuisine group standards with time-honored catering cuisines as the main body, and establish industry norms.