بعد [تونت-فيف] سنون من إدارة خبرة مع جونسون & جونسون ([ج&ج]), بريستول [مرس-سقويبّ] و [قودرا] منطق تكنولوجيا, ([قلت]), أصبح أنا "لاجئة متضامنة," [ميدّل-جد], [ميدّل منجر] الذي كان خفّض العمالة في الفترة ركود من ال 80. هناك كان آلاف من نا يمشي حوالي في حالة دوخان. After years of education and successful corporate performance, we were out on the streets.

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By Ernie Tadla

After twenty-five years of management experience with Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Bristol Myers-Squibb and Quadra Logic Technologies, (QLT), I became a “corporate refugee,” a middle-aged, middle manager who was downsized in the recession of the ’80s. There were thousands of us walking around in a daze. After years of education and successful corporate performance, we were out on the streets.

When you can’t get a real job, you become a consultant, which is why I founded Odyssey Consulting International Inc. I was doing for my own stable of clients what I had been doing for my corporate employers. Read the rest of “China Chapter Two: Apprehension and Trepidation” or post a comment

To open restaurants in Shanghai, you’ve got two options:

1. Establish a wholly foreign owned catering management company.
2. Simply open a restaurant

If you want to franchise in Shanghai or intend to sell your restaurants in the future, option 1 would be fit for you …

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By Vincent Cheung

To open restaurants in Shanghai, you’ve got two options:

1. Establish a wholly foreign owned catering management company.
2. Simply open a restaurant

If you want to franchise in Shanghai or intend to sell your restaurants in the future, option 1 would be fit for you, or you can simply open a restaurant. You don’t have to rent a room in an office block to have the catering management company established. For setting up a catering management company, a suitable place for opening a restaurant is sufficient. As soon as it’s established, you can start to open restaurants, bars or coffee houses as its branch companies. Since the catering management company, which is licensed to engage in investment consultancy, business consultancy, corporate management consultancy, catering (food, dessert, beverage, alcohol) already has most of the required licenses and permits for engaging in catering business, you don’t need to apply for them when you are opening branch companies. Read the rest of “About Opening a Foreign-invested Restaurant in Shanghai” or post a comment