30 years, and still going strong …
Marilyn October 5th, 2006
One day recently we woke up and realised that Baguette was 30 years old. One of the hardest things about the restaurant industry is … surviving in the restaurant industry. There are countless examples of restaurants with expensive fit-outs and rave reviews that don’t make it past their second birthday.
Somewhere along the way we figured out how to keep the passion alive, hold off the bank manager and keep over 1 million customers happy.
Francis was feeling pretty pleased with himself as one of the longtime stayers in a notoriously difficult industry — until he was told that the longest running restaurant in the world is Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in China. It opened in AD1153!