Inside Asian Gaming
IAG JAPAN JAN 2021 60 A ccording to an old Chinese proverb, “Give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime.” As one of Macau’s leading corporations and a responsible corporate citizen, Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) has long been dedicated to giving back to the local community and continues to support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) via various initiatives to help Macau’s economy move towards diversification. Based on the “Large Businesses Leading Small Businesses” business model, GEG’s Broadway Food Street is a hallmark example of how large-scale integrated resorts cooperate with local SMEs. Since 2015, GEG has taken a proactive approach to assisting local, traditional F&B brands in their modernization and corporatization, and has invited local SMEs in the sectors of retail and F&B to open outlets in the Broadway Food Street at Broadway Macau. “When we started this project, the original idea was to focus on tourists,” explains Harrison Lun, Vice President Broadway Hospitality Operations & Theatre. “We planned to build a food street so that tourists don’t have to go to the streets and alleys, and can enjoy different kinds of authentic Macau food at one venue. “We wanted to find local businesses that are really authentic and special, not necessarily famous, but really delicious. We did a lot of research and literally knocked door by door to sincerely invite these local traditional brands to join.” The task was a tricky one, Harrison recalls, with some local SMEs skeptical at first. But the decision to partner with Galaxy proved to be an easy one for Joe Lei, the third-generation owner of traditional Cantonese cuisine brand Lei Ka Choi, or “Lei’s Cuisine” in English, who took the opportunity to jump on board immediately. “Eighty percent of the customers in our other stores in Macau may be locals, but the tourists here (at the Broadway Food Street) are more concentrated,” Lei tells Inside Asian Gaming . “It is a place where we can build our reputation, and we plan to go to mainland China for further 中 国には、こういう諺がある。「ある人に魚を一匹 与えれば、その日を食い凌げる。その人に釣り を教えれば、一生の間、食い凌げる」。 マカオを代表する企業の一つであり、責任のあ る企業市民であるギャラクシーエンターテイン メントグループ(GEG)は、長年にわたって地域社会への還元に尽力 しており、マカオ経済の多角化を促進させるための様々な取り組 みを通じて、地元の中小企業 (SME) を支援し続けている。 「大企業が中小企業を導く」というビジネスモデルに基づく形 で、GEGのブロードウェイ・フードストリートは、大規模の統合型リ ゾートと地元中小企業との協力を示した典型的な事例だ。 GEGは2015年より、地元の伝統的な食品・飲料ブランドの近代 化と企業化の支援を積極的に行い、小売・飲食部門の地元中小企 業をマカオのブロードウェイにあるブロードウェイ・フードストリー トに誘致し、出店させてきた。 「このプロジェクトを始めた当初は、観光客に焦点を当てるこ とが目的だった」と、ブロードウェイ・ホスピタリティ・オペレーショ ン&シアター副社長のハリソン・ラン氏は説明する。 「観光客が街や路地に行かなくて済み、マカオの様々な本格料理 を一箇所で楽しめるように、フードストリートの建設を計画していた。 人気店でなくとも味に定評のある、本格的で特別な地元の店を 探していた。地元の伝統的な店を入念に調査し、一軒ずつ訪ね、こ FEATURES
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