New life in enterprise

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 254, 14 September 1988, Page 4

New life in enterprise

Chee Lim-Sun, Manager of the new Chinese Take-away in Ohakune, The Chow Factory' has got business off to a good start. He thinks business opportunities ard very good for a town of this size, at least during the right season. Chee Lim-Sun first came to Ohakune nine years ago to ski with

his family and saw tourism as a g r e a t incentive to work here. He arrived home earlier this year from Europe and soon decided to move to Ohakune. He left a job at a top k i w i f r u i t company where, h e commented: "I had a secure job, but all the challenge had gone, so a small enterprise like this will bring new life

to my work." Chee Lim-Sun lives in Mt Maunganui but classes Hamilton as his home town and once worked in a Chinese Restaurant as part of the family business. The shop he now runs fits the fast food stereotype but thinks: "The big influx of skiers we get on the week-end want a quick service, so we display about six courses on the front counter " On his return from Europe he stayed in

Hong Kong where he saw many different forms of Chinese restaurant, "Food sellers worked on shoestring budgets serving rice on street corners. Then there were restaurants serving 60-70 different dishes a night." He says his 'fast food' outlook is a compromise of those styles but thinks that's what the people want, and if business looks good he may stay on during the summer.