When the epidemic becomes a normal situation to face at any time
Maintain a passion for the better life
Probably the best way to cope
Zeng Can, the founder of the "Neon Tea Dance", could not have imagined that his milk tea shop was actually out of the circle in this way.
In Shanghai's incomparably inward-rolled milk tea jianghu, "Neon Tea Dance" has never had a sense of existence, and many people have never even heard of this awkward name.
And it all changed because of a girl.
The girl had just returned from abroad and ended the 14-day intensive quarantine period, but did not comply with the next 7 days of home health monitoring and secretly ran out to play. She walked into the Jing'an Temple store, ordered a cup of milk tea, chose dine-in, and took off her mask.
Within a few days, the girl was tested for abnormal nucleic acid results. Immediately afterward, all three employees she contacted at the milk tea shop were diagnosed with COVID-19.
Located at 228 Yuyuan Road, the store is one of Zeng Can's best-run stores in Shanghai.
Now, the 20-square-meter street shop has been suspended and has become the smallest medium-risk area in the world.
Zeng Can felt that his head was bigger, and the "Neon Tea Dance" in Shanghai was originally a difficult survival. Now that there is another epidemic, he does not dare to calculate how much loss it will cause.
But things turned out to surprise him. The "Neon Tea Dance" became popular overnight and received overwhelming attention.
In just a few days, the number of its Weibo followers has risen from a few hundred to more than 1,000.
On the public reviews, the comment area of the Jing'an Temple store that has shown "suspension of business" has exploded. The hundreds of new messages are people's encouragement to this milk tea shop, indicating that they must come to punch the clock after unblocking.
Support doesn't just stay on the lips. Other branches of Neon Tea Dance in Shanghai are still operating normally, and the business has not decreased but increased these days. Some stores, which were already very deserted, also accidentally caught fire.
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Life in front of the "medium risk" is business as usual
Other branches are doing business
Wandering around Jing'an Temple on weekends, if I hadn't paid special attention, I probably wouldn't have realized that I was passing by the fabled "world's smallest medium-risk area."
The neon tea dance next to the Paramount has been suspended, along with Guilin rice noodles next door. But the Nanjing hair salon, which is also only separated by a wall, is still operating normally, and it is bustling with guests washing and cutting.
In fact, the entire Yuyuan Road was hardly affected. The street is still full of fireworks, and couples who press the road, nearby residents walking their dogs in pajamas, and takeaway brothers who are in a hurry come and go in front of the milk tea shop, and life is business as usual.
The only difference is probably that a low-key police car is parked on the street corner from morning to night, in case of emergencies.
Precise without excessive, as far as possible not to let the epidemic prevention affect the normal life of citizens, this is the warmth of Shanghai's humanity.
The neon tea dance has become a footnote to Shanghai's "precision epidemic prevention". Because of their good feelings for this humane policy, everyone also loved the milk tea shop and Wu.
Some people wonder what happened to this milk tea shop that no one knows about? Is it delicious? Some sympathized with its plight and wanted to express support.
Whatever the reason, in short, the other branches of the Neon Tea Dance, the order exploded.
On Sunday afternoon, customers lined up in the Paris Spring Store on Huaihai Road.
The entire second basement floor belongs to its family's best business. Several of the old Internet red milk tea shops next door have been snubbed and appear to be somewhat deserted.
And this is the result of people's enthusiasm. On Friday, the day after the announcement of the medium risk, the store directly returned more than a hundred orders, because it could not be done.
The store in Superbrand Plaza also ushered in a sales climax on this day. The clerk told me that that night, the storefront, which was only 10 square meters, had a total of seven or eight employees rotating at the same time, and it was barely able to cope with the traffic at that time.
Because the Chia Tai store is hidden in the corner, they also received a lot of calls asking for directions, just to come and buy milk tea.
Zeng Can saw that this Friday, the turnover of their Shanghai store not only did not decrease, but increased by 20%, which surprised and moved him.
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"Viruses can be isolated,
But warmth will not be isolated."
Zeng Can knew very well that in Shanghai, the operation of the neon tea dance was not easy.
This enterprise headquartered in Hunan has always been the benchmark of tea color, the main cost performance, many people can drink the taste of "tea color and pleasant color" in their products. But that advantage isn't enough to make it stand out in highly competitive Shanghai.
In the past two years, the epidemic has caused a huge impact on the catering industry. "Every time there is a confirmed case in a city, the performance of local stores, the data will have a big decline."
Therefore, when he learned that there was a diagnosis in the Jing'an Temple store, Zeng Can was also a little confused.
At 3:00 a.m. on the 13th, Zeng Can received a positive nucleic acid report from three store clerks. Soon, they were transferred to an isolation hospital and the store was closed.
Zeng Can is more worried about the safety of employees than the impact on business conditions. Their youngest is 17 years old, the oldest is 22 years old, "such a strange environment, but also a room for one person, 3 young friends, how scared." ”
He was in Hunan, and he could only pull a small group with the three people to comfort them in the group. Then I hooked up with the nurses in the hospital and learned that their condition was not serious, and they had been moved from a single ward to a multi-person ward, so they were relieved.
Although there are no regulations from the epidemic prevention department, Zeng Can still requires all employees in all stores in Shanghai to conduct nucleic acid testing every 7 days to ensure everyone's safety.
"I think from the perspective of a guest, a brand bursts out of such a thing, if it is me, I will also be afraid, this is the common sense of people." 」
What he never expected was that the guests in Shanghai gave them so much support, "in the most difficult time."
Netizens have left messages in the background of public comments, Weibo, and public accounts, caring about the condition of 3 employees and leaving the blessing of "early recovery".
In addition to the full screen of cheers, almost all the comments are saying: "When the unblocking, I will definitely go to have a cup of milk tea." "There are even customers in Beijing and Shenzhen who say that they will come to Shanghai stores to punch in after the epidemic is over.
A milk tea shop that was originally little known, because of the joint fight against the epidemic with Shanghai, has a deeper bond with the city, and at the same time has reaped the rewards of goodwill. It's not so much about "blessings from misfortune" as it is about transporting temperature to each other.
On the 14th, The Neon Tea Dance sent a long Microblog listing the heart-warming messages it received, with the headline: "The virus can be isolated, but the warmth will not be isolated." ”
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Temperature in Shanghai
It is a passion for life
With the recurrence of the epidemic, everyone's mentality is also changing, and the attention has gradually shifted to daily life.
Therefore, everyone excavated the "Guangzhou Morning Tea Map" from the 75-year-old grandmother's circulation record in Guangzhou, and lamented that "I want to live in Guangzhou"; the Suzhou circulation record was compiled into a "Song Hunting Journey Guide" with a strong historical atmosphere.
Shenyang's chicken racks, Disney fireworks, and staying in quarantine hotels with pets have become interesting and warm memories of the suffering caused by the new crown.
Including this neon tea dance, from the world's smallest medium-risk area, to the owner's active cooperation in epidemic prevention, to the customer's milk tea consumption and hundreds of warm messages... What touches us is the belief that we must maintain the enthusiasm for life in the face of difficulties.
Yesterday, the Shanghai Global Harbor, which was closed for 55 hours, was unsealed, and everyone left with flowers in their hands, which reminded people of Zhang Wenhong's analogy again: "Shanghai's epidemic prevention work is 'catching rats in ceramic shops', we hope to catch rats, but also not to break porcelain, and hope not to have a big impact on social life because of epidemic prevention." ”
When the pandemic becomes a constant norm, maintaining enthusiasm for the better life may be the best way to respond.
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