As a Sichuan catering company, South Beauty's journey into the international spotlight was very difficult. At first, founder Zhang Lan did not have much confidence in competing with those companies that already had a high international profile, so in the first round of bidding, South Beauty did not participate, and because midway through the bidding for a company that had been eliminated, in accordance with the standardized process, it was necessary to invite another company to participate in the bidding, and after the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, South Beauty entered the list of the many invited companies. The company has been invited to participate in the competition by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, and South Beauty has been invited to participate in the competition.
After becoming a bidding company, South Beauty didn't have any special advantages among the many bidding companies, but after that, it repeatedly stood out and was finally selected as the only Chinese food supplier for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which is a good result thanks to the hard work and efforts of Zhang Lan and her team.
Because South Beauty entered the bidding team later than other enterprises, it was very urgent for them to prepare for the time, and they began to overload themselves with preparations only ten days before the bidding deadline on February 7, while other teams had already been preparing for this for two or three months, and in the face of such a form, the South Beauty team didn't mess up, but listed the work plan.
The South Beauty team didn't mess up in the face of this form, but listed the work plan, then clearly divided the labor and went all out.
The full name of the invitation to tender agreement is "Olympic 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Competitive Negotiation Document", A4 paper printing documents, about 3 centimeters thick, just the title, it is difficult to comprehend, the content is even more difficult at that time, the South Beauty team "gnawed three days to gnaw to understand". The reason why I use the word "gnaw" is because it is not easier to read than professional teaching materials. A thick pile of documents, all of which need to be filled out forms and standardized documents, are full of new concepts and terminology, even though they are accompanied by detailed instructions for filling them out. So the bidding process gave them a big kick in the pants right from the start.
In addition to the documents are too professional and difficult to chew, than also have to write specific programs around the organization and operation, market development, supply node string, logistics, food safety, emergency preparedness and several other major sections. Seven categories of people served by the Olympic Games: VIPs of the International Olympic Family, officials of the Olympic Organizing Committee, media journalists, ticket-holding spectators, technical officials of the individual associations (IF), athletes and referees, volunteers - each category of people have different service standards and processes.
The most important is the first category, the so-called "International Olympic Family VIPs", including heads of government, business leaders, and the world's top sponsors who have long cooperated with the Olympic Games, which is set as the highest specification in terms of both food safety and quality of service, and requires extremely thorough and detailed requirements, which is not a small challenge for South Beauty. The challenge for South Beauty is not a small one.
South Beauty, a group of young people with no experience but strong learning ability, digested while understanding, pondered while writing, tried to figure out the positioning of each category of people to understand their needs, and after understanding the needs, began to formulate the standards, refine the process, refine the process, and implement the guarantee. From the chunks of writing to splicing and integration, from modifying and embellishing to proofreading and typesetting, after nine days and nights of sleeplessness and darkness, they completed the tender for the Olympic Games, printed out the finished product of one **** eight sets, **** there are 16,000 pages, both in terms of difficulty and thickness and a doctoral dissertation is not comparable.
On March 5, 2008, when South Beauty took out a thick eight-book tender, it shocked a lot of people on the spot, and some bidding teams said that their tenders were only a few pages long, and South Beauty won over the other teams at this level. After experiencing a level of actual inspection, South Beauty successfully won over a lot of Western companies to enter the first choice of the Olympic Games' catering service, and the Chinese food has also come into international attention. The company's success in this area has been recognized by a number of international organizations, including the United States and Canada.
After South Beauty was recognized by the world, Zhang Lan, the founder behind the enterprise, was also pushed on the international stage and became the leader of the Chinese catering industry. Zhang Lan founded South Beauty alone and made it into the international spotlight as well as becoming a legend. The reason why South Beauty can be so smoothly recognized by the public familiar, it can be said that behind the founder of Zhang Lan's dedication, of course, South Beauty "out of the country" is also the recognition of the community on the ability of Zhang Lan.
Zhang Lan was born in 1958 in the period of civil unrest, in her early childhood, the winds of the Cultural Revolution blew everywhere, each of the winds whisked through the people are more or less to be subjected to some crime, the father before Zhang Lan was born into the right wing, the father and mother were forced to separate, and then the mother re-married, and they began to live with their stepfather, soon the mother was also decentralized, and the family left Beijing, the stepfather followed the mother to go to the devolved land. The mother went with her to the decentralized place.
Zhang Lan's stepfather was very strict on Zhang Lan's education, life is quantitative, his stepfather made a work schedule for her, he personally took a small bamboo ruler to play the table, from wake up to bed, the schedule is specific to every minute: 6:00 am wake up; 6:00-6:15 wipe the car - his 28 bicycle, like today's "Mercedes-Benz", to wipe the bike, to wipe the car, to wipe the bike, to wipe the bike, to wipe the bike, to wipe the bike, to wipe the bike, to wipe the bike, to wipe the bike. Like today's "Mercedes-Benz" as expensive, from the bell to the chain, must be polished to a new shine; 6:15-6:30 wipe the table ...... Throughout the process, there is a stopwatch in the "ta-da! The whole process has a stopwatch in the "tada" time. Learning content is also strictly quantitative, daily copy thirty large characters, after practicing, increased to fifty, and then practice, increased to one hundred, as long as the completion of the, began to increase the amount.
His stepfather's self-contained form management and quantitative management have become the code of conduct in Zhang Lan's mind. The requirements for efficiency and quality are carried out to all the big and small actions in life. Because of her stepfather's strictness, Zhang Lan has been trained to do things in a vigorous style, and has also cultivated her habit of doing things in a focused manner, and has also sharpened her perseverance. These points have become the necessary qualities for Zhang Lan to start her own business in the future.
After being decentralized, the family has been living in the countryside, to the end of the Cultural Revolution, many people have access to be transferred back to the original place, at that time, Zhang Lan's mother's body has suffered from a very serious rheumatic heart disease, delayed to receive the transfer of the instructions back to the Zhang Lan since childhood, is a person with the idea of having the courage to tell no one, she did not tell anyone, and privately skipped the train back to Beijing, by virtue of and is responsible for the allocation of the decentralized personnel Yan Commander The daughter of Commander Yan, who is responsible for the deployment of decentralized personnel, is a classmate, so she softly got her mother's transfer order to return to Beijing.
Back in Beijing to start living a normal life again, mom's disease also began to gradually improve, they found the Cultural Revolution lost contact with their father and brother, mom and stepfather also gave her a younger brother, although the parents can not re-form a complete family, are in Zhang Lan, has been very satisfied.
After graduating from university, Zhang Lan also lived a normal life of working to support her family, getting married and having children, and her life trajectory is nothing special. After giving birth to her son, Wang Xiaofei, her husband and wife's relationship has been contradictory, and that is at this time, a turnaround in her life appeared, and her uncle's wife, who was immigrating to Canada, became sick. When Zhang Lan returned to Canada, he saw that Zhang Lan was hardworking and capable, so he hoped that Zhang Lan could go with him to Canada to take care of his aunt and uncle.
In Canada, in addition to taking care of her sick aunt, Zhang Lan paid attention to the opportunities around her. After her aunt recovered, she left her uncle's home, went to a restaurant as a waitress, and then went to Canada to work as a nanny for a rich man.
The first step in the process is to make sure that you have the right tools for the right job, so that you can get the job done right.
Before deciding to start her own business, she had already obtained the qualification of immigrants, but eventually Zhang Lan chose to return to China to start her own business, and after returning to China, she began to select the direction of the business, and finally finalized the catering industry, because she is a handful of the catering industry, and she is comfortable doing it, and the initial stage of the business is very difficult, from the location of the rental, to the choice of brand, the name, and recruiting. ......, each step is not easy to carry out, each step Zhang Lan is personally, in the experience of all kinds of difficulties, Zhang Lan opened the first Szechuan restaurant "Alain Restaurant".
After the creation of Alain Restaurant, Zhang Lan's life into a very busy normal, rarely spend time on the family, but also because of the work to pay a great price, she seldom get along with her son, Wang Xiaofei in the finish junior high school after studying abroad alone, Zhang Lan also just gave his son can barely support the life of the former when the living expenses, her younger brother has also joined the Alain Restaurant to help.
Because of the business of offending the evil forces, Zhang Lan was also the triad repeatedly difficult, but for the character of cheerful, optimistic Zhang Lan, these small disasters are nothing, her life is the most deadly and most unforgettable a disaster is her brother because of the Alain restaurant was killed. Zhang Lan's younger brother had rickets because of malnutrition since childhood, so Zhang Lan loved this half-brother extraordinarily, and the two of them had a very good relationship, and finally, because a group of Beijing bandits wanted to rob Zhang Lan, the boss of Alain Restaurant, it so happened that Zhang Lan went abroad to see Wang Xiaofei to escape, and eventually her brother took the knife for her, which left an indelible shadow on Zhang Lan's life, and Zhang Lan was also depressed, and closed down the Alain Restaurant! The company's main business is the development of a new business model, which has been developed by a group of companies in the United States.
After countless days of depression, Zhang Lan finally once again a newborn, decided to rebuild a Chinese food brand of their own, before the operation of Alain Restaurant and other hotel chains earned some money, Zhang Lan began to study the stock, in her second venture, the money can already be her start-up capital, Zhang Lan once again according to the footsteps of the previous, re-establishment of the brand, the design of Logo , site selection to rent a building ...... to open a new chapter of life further, this time the creation of the very later into the international South Beauty River.
South Beauty from a fledgling Chinese food brand to a global international brand, through countless times of growth and reform, from the beginning of a team of a few cooks and a boss, to the later thousands of excellent highly educated and high quality aspiring young people to manage the team, along the way is very difficult, which can also be seen the founder of the charisma and entrepreneurial ability of Zhang Lan is very strong.
In 2008, Zhang Lan's South Beauty began to get involved in the capital market, Dinghui used 200 million yuan to buy 10% of South Beauty's shares, and after that, it was paid attention to by the capital world, and became the prey of many capitalists, and in 2011, South Beauty began to embark on the work of listing, but due to the industry's specificity, the listing work was not so smooth, and in order to be listed, Zhang Lan also gave up her Chinese citizenship and chose to immigrate to a small unknown country. After the successful listing, South Beauty became a tool for capitalists to make quick money, and Zhang Lan's right to be chairman of the board of directors was hollowed out, and South Beauty lost its original appearance and the original founder's original intention.
Zhang Lan's entrepreneurship all the way shows that she is a very capable and inspiring strong woman, and she is also a very qualified entrepreneur, but in the end, her own hard-earned rivers and mountains have been hollowed out by others, really because she has a lot of problems of her own, from the beginning of the founding of Alan's Restaurant to the end of the South Beauty into the capital market, Zhang Lan is a sentimental and emotional very heavy people. In the early days of her business, she pulled in a lot of good partners with her full-blooded enthusiasm, and in the middle of her business she laughed and laughed with her employees, caring about their lives and families and even their personal emotions, which are all very rare in an entrepreneur.
But ultimately into the sentiment of defeat in the sentiment, Zhang Lan was twice fooled by investors, but twice again chose to believe them, the first time because the investment company lack of funds to try to take South Beauty shares as collateral to loan out and then buy South Beauty shares, and one to two to invest in the company is not out of a penny, but because of the time did not eventually reach an agreement, and ultimately the end of the cooperation. Once again ready to go public, the previous investor played the emotional card, the investor invited Zhang Lan to his home in addition to the closest people will not invite others to go, gave Zhang Lan a bowl of antiques he treasured for many years, Zhang Lan again fell into the same pit, this time did not escape the trap of the capital, and finally led to the power to be hollowed out, the company's image collapsed, and Zhang Lan also sighed at the same time: it is very difficult to be a woman, to be a female entrepreneur is even more difficult.
In fact, the capital market was not as industrialists to pay attention to feelings, they only focus on performance, performance can not be accomplished by any means to complete, industrialists and capitalists talk about feelings, undoubtedly is to give away the river and mountain, is destined to be the end of the failure of the entrepreneurship and "unemployed" Zhang Lan has also given us a good lesson: sentiment is a good thing. Lesson: Sentiment is a good thing, but the premise is to be used in the right person.