Valentine’s Day Event Planning Plan for Hotel Restaurants

In order to ensure that the event can be held successfully, we need to formulate an event plan in advance. The event plan is a written plan made after comprehensively considering factors related to the event. So have you learned about the activity plan? The following are the Valentine’s Day event planning plans for hotels and restaurants that I have collected and compiled (generally 5 articles). You are welcome to share them. Valentine's Day event planning plan for hotels and restaurants 1

1. A hot kiss is enough

On Valentine's Day, alternative activities can be held for promotion. “Kiss on site for 60 seconds and eat all you can for free.” This Valentine’s Day event attracted the attention of many people.

30 couples can be required to participate. There are no restrictions on registration, whether you are a couple in love, a newlywed, or an elderly person who has been together for many years, you can participate. But the condition is that the 60 seconds of passionate kissing must be a genuine kiss. This event was launched in the hope that couples can prove the passion of their love through kissing.

2. Give guests a “promise of love”

Couple coupons can be pre-sold one year in advance. They are only available to couples. For the price of one person, you can get two coupons worth 50 yuan. Vouchers. However, a couple coupon is divided into a boy coupon and a girl coupon. Each lover keeps his or her own coupon. One year later, that is, on February 14, 20xx, the two coupons will be effective together... .Now such a romantic and love-testing agreement is perfect to apply in Ma Jinlong Malatang Restaurant. After all, most of the consumers are women between the ages of 18-35.

You can also bind membership cards. On February 14th, if a couple applies for a new membership card or renews the card and the stored value reaches 100 yuan, they will receive a couple coupon. If it is Valentine's Day next year, you and your partner can still get it. If you hold hands to dine, you can enjoy these 2 couple coupons for free on the same day.

3. Software, love detector to detect "love index"

The "Love Detector" activity can be launched during Valentine's Day, which can measure the "love index" on the spot. This kind of software can read the emotional temperature of the test taker and make quick judgments based on the voice. The score can show the degree of love between the couples.

All customers who come to the store can use the love tester to measure the "love index" of a man to a woman. Each person is limited to 3 tests, and the highest value is taken. Depending on how many points you get on the love index, you will save the corresponding amount of money based on the original price. The full score is 20 points. If you get full marks, no matter how much you spend, all orders will be free of charge! Customers who participate in the test will be issued a "Love Appraisal Certificate" to both men and women by the store manager on site!

4. Lover Glass Bottle

On Valentine’s Day, you can organize a themed activity called “Lover’s Glass Bottle”: the restaurant provides colorful glass bottles, and lovers write their love words on paper, then stuff them into the bottles, and then use them Tie the ribbon and give it to the other party. It is said that such marketing activities are relatively low-cost but very effective.

5. Sending fragrant flowers to beauties

“Flower World Theme Lover’s Night” decorated with roses. The restaurant is decorated with more than 300 roses and other decorations to create a romantic and warm dining environment. There will be singers performing at the dining table, singing affectionate and intoxicating music for couples, and the unique XXX performance and guitar playing will also make people intoxicated. Men can pick a rose at will during the dinner or when leaving the table, only one rose, and give it to their lover. The mark of love stays in my heart forever.

6. Asking for a chance encounter - who will open the lock of my heart

Come on, come to the restaurant to find the key to your heart! Open the door to her heart!

< p>True love believes that you will be able to find the key to her heart!

Participating objects: urban fashionable single men and women

Purpose of participation: Love Key Happy Lock

Activities Introduction: The first love of true love: happy lock, looking for a beautiful woman

Boys who participate in the activity on Valentine's Day night will receive a love key, and girls will receive randomly distributed heart-shaped number cards. At the beginning of the event, boys try to use their own love key to open the love lock. Each person only has a maximum of 5 chances. The successful boy looks for the corresponding love card according to the number on the lock.

7. Auction - For Whom the Heart Blooms

Participants: Beautiful Valentine’s Night guests who wish to express their deep love with flowers

Participation Purpose: Heroic pride, swearing to win the Oiran

Event props: Blue Enchantress Rose, Collector’s Edition XXX, 5 bouquets of different flowers.

Activity introduction: On-site auction of a bouquet of blue enchantress roses and a collector's edition of XXX provided by the restaurant. The successful bidder will receive a special loving couple card, which can only be used if signed by both parties. The meaning of the gift is wholeheartedness and eternity. The restaurant witnesses true love. The top five closest bidders will receive a free bouquet of flowers provided by the restaurant.

8. True Confession

Participants: All guests

Purpose of the activity: To express the most sincere love to her/him in my heart on this special day If you love her/him, say it loudly!

Activity introduction: The restaurant provides you with the opportunity to express your love loudly on this wonderful night. How can you not be moved by the special true confession on this special day? For her/his most creative confession of love, the restaurant will give you a generous Valentine's Day gift to cheer you up.

9. Throw the dice and win romantic gifts;

"Erotic Dice" is a special interactive game launched on Valentine's Day. Couples who enter the store to make purchases on February 14th, Throw the dice and follow the prompts on each side of the dice to make corresponding actions at the designated location in the store to win exquisite gifts.

The text on the 6 sides of the erotic dice includes the following actions:

1. Kiss on the face (Kiss for 10 seconds)

2. Hug (couple warmth) Hug for more than 30 seconds)

3. Confession of love (confess affectionately to TA for more than one minute)

Exquisite gifts include:

1. Chocolate (symbolizing sweetness) Honey)

2. Couple cup (symbolizing lifelong love)

3. Love USB flash drive (eternal witness, storing love)

4. Single bowl stand 5 yuan off meal fee

10. Even if it’s just holding hands

Alternative marketing: On Valentine’s Day, launch “20% off holding hands with anyone in the store, 30% off hugging, and kissing” 5.20% off” activity. If customers come to participate in the event, they can enjoy corresponding discounts as long as they hold hands, hug each other or kiss. There are no specific restrictions on the form of kissing. I believe that once the event is launched, the reservations during Valentine's Day will be fully booked and even overflowing, and most of these consumer groups are young people. The discount is large, and both implicit and open customers can participate in this event. The discount is large, economical and fun, and has attracted people's attention. Hotel and restaurant Valentine’s Day event planning plan 2

1. Activity background

(1) Valentine’s Day background

Valentine’s Day, an event that originated in ancient Rome in the third century AD Era, a Western festival for lovers to express their love for each other, has now become a widely spread festival around the world. Valentine's Day and the corresponding consumption patterns have become another popular Western festival after Christmas and are increasingly accepted by consumers. Hotels have the best conditions to create Valentine's Day, so spending Valentine's Day in hotels has become a must-have for people with a certain financial base. The hotel carries out activities with the theme of "If you love, please love deeply", letting a sweet and loving atmosphere linger in the hotel. Roses are arranged in a heart shape around the small fountain at the entrance of the romantic Champs Western Restaurant. A bouquet of carefully prepared roses is placed on each dining table. The order list is filled with Valentine's Day meals carefully prepared for the guests. , romantic music has been lingering in the western restaurant. We extend our most sincere blessings to the couples who come to dine. Red wine, chocolates, and eleven roses are also placed in the couple's suite to provide couples with a romantic accommodation environment.

(2) Event planning background

According to the hotel’s experience in hosting this event, young white-collar workers and high-income earners between 20-40 attach great importance to Valentine’s Day on 2.14 . The hotel is located in a bustling urban area, surrounded by many white-collar offices. It is an excellent opportunity for the hotel to promote this event.

The hotel also invested a large amount of money in this event and planned it one month in advance, striving to allow guests to enjoy a comfortable dining and living environment. While economic benefits grow, good social benefits are achieved to the greatest extent.

2. Purpose and significance of the event

(1) Purpose of the event

The hotel will use Valentine’s Day to build momentum, gather popularity, drive popularity, tap potential customers, and promote Sales; Let Chinese and Western cultures better communicate, inherit culture, and lay the foundation for organizing other festival activities in the hotel; enhance the hotel's status in ## through novel activities, so that customers can greatly appreciate our hotel in comparison; every time All activities are tests for hotel employees, and the interests of the hotel are the interests of employees. Only through cooperation can the cohesion and collective sense of honor of hotel employees be enhanced.

(2) The significance of the event

2.14 Valentine’s Day is becoming more and more popular in China and has become an essential festival every year. There are various ways to hold parties, including family-style, friend-style, and lover-style parties. It is a good time for friendship, family and love gathering. As a grand festival, a specific venue is indispensable. Hotels can provide excellent venues, and in-room catering can be promoted on Valentine's Day. On the one hand, it can allow hotels to obtain good economic benefits and increase hotel operating income. As the earliest high-end hotel in xx, xx Hotel has accumulated rich experience in customer service and provides perfect service to all kinds of guests. This Valentine's Day event is also in response to the needs of social development. The hotel continues to improve and innovate the event and strives to achieve perfection. Let ## this old brand no longer be eliminated in the progress of society. On 2.14, a day full of love, let more couples continue their love.

3. Event time and location

Event time: 20xx.2.14-2.16

Event related location: Champs Western Food on the first floor

Deluxe Suites on Floors 8-11

IV. Activities Form

(1) Valentine’s Day Couples’ Small Activities

(2) Western Food Housekeeping Department’s Big Discounts Delivery activities

5. Related preparations before the Valentine’s Day event

(1) Promotional billboards and brochures

1. Do some work on the TV station Publicity newspaper

2. LED advertising and posters (the marketing department is responsible)

(2) Valentine’s Day invitation cards

1. The management company is responsible for each The business department and marketing department will specifically implement the distribution and mailing work.

2. The distribution and mailing targets are mainly large customers and regular customers who spend money in the store, and the hotel’s holiday greetings and blessings to them are combined with the hotel’s holiday promotions.

(3) Gift production

The purchasing department will contact the Valentine’s Day gifts and decorations to make the gifts exquisite.

(4) Quality training of employees

Continuously strengthen and improve the quality of employees. Inform them of the importance of this event, strengthen employee etiquette and provide appropriate training. Play some videos and add hands-on practice. Be fully prepared for this event in your hotel. The housekeeping department should do a good job in training reception staff at the front desk, as well as training in room service operations for floor attendants. Avoid unnecessary trouble for guests when checking in.

(5) Promotional division of labor

Managers of each hotel department shall make promotional arrangements, make changes in activities based on the needs of regular guests and notify the marketing department. Before 2.14, hotel group buying dinners were launched on the Internet, and the hotel's western food also launched the Formosa Steak Supreme Membership Card. Customers can enjoy 10 Formosa Steak opportunities and three free buffets with a one-time recharge of 2,788 yuan and three stays in a deluxe room for 88 yuan. Voucher and three stays in a deluxe room. Guests staying in guest rooms enjoy a 50% discount, as well as four hours of KTV carnival and two hours of free sauna.

(6) In-store decoration and layout

1. Post some pictures related to the Spring Festival and promotional content posters in the restaurant on the storefront, mainly in red, highlighting the festive atmosphere of the festival.

A large heart-shaped rose is placed around the pool at the entrance of the Champs Western Restaurant to attract guests and let them know that the hotel is about to hold this event

2. The restaurant will arrange gift booths on weekends, so that guests can enjoy the meal. Carry out targeted promotion work for guests

3. The music in the hotel lobby should always be romantic and comfortable, giving guests a comfortable environment

4. In the lobby on 2.14, the concierge should respond to guests entering the lobby. Couples spending money in the store should hand out roses. and extend their most sincere blessings. Large double-core knots (made of bamboo and flower mud) are placed on the hall columns.

5. In terms of room decoration. Rose chocolate wine should be placed in the room for couples to enjoy. The hotel should also provide them with no-disturbance services so that they can enjoy quiet time while resting.

6. Contents of the activity

(1) Valentine’s Day wishing and blessing activity

2.14 Double heart knots placed in the lobby. Anyone who comes to the hotel between 2.14 and 2.16 can get a chance to make love wishes and blessings. Each couple can get a couple glass bottle with a label representing a promise. The labels are divided into: red represents young love, suitable for 25 Young people under the age of 15. Blue represents mature love, suitable for lovers aged 25 to 35. Gold represents perfect love and is suitable for lovers over 35 years old. Customers can write their love wishes and blessings for themselves and others on the label, then put it into a couple's glass bottle and hang it on the double heart knot, which will remain on display for a week.

(2) Champs Western Food’s Valentine’s Day Food Dinner and Lucky Draw Giveaways

On 2.14, Champs Western Food launches a Valentine’s Day Food Dinner. A set meal was carefully prepared for the couples who came to dine, and a lucky draw was added. On that day, a greeter will be stationed at the entrance of the restaurant. When guests enter the restaurant, each guest will be given a number plate and asked to write their name on the back of the number plate. All number plates will be collected before 20:00. 20:30 The lottery begins. Six lucky people will be drawn, and each will receive two free buffet dinner coupons for the Western restaurant presented by the hotel. At the same time, each lady dining will receive a free serving of papaya-stewed snow clam nourishing beauty products, and the men will receive a glass of the hotel's home-brewed fine red wine.

(3) Big giveaway of room coupons for couples

VIP department and green card department big bonus of room coupons, a set of 3788 green cards, 6 hotel free administrative room coupons with a retail price of 988, 5 A buffet ticket. Membership cards enjoy VIP discounts in various hotel business departments. Upon check-in, you will receive a delicious fruit plate and snacks.

(4) Hotel wedding banquets with big rewards

Couples who spend money in hotels are willing to hold wedding banquets in hotels if they get married. The hotel will give the maximum discount to customers. And the hotel's "Silver Package" will give the hotel the greatest profit and meet customer needs. The hotel's new wedding consultation room sincerely invites couples to join.

7. Activity budget

(1) Budget

Decoration costs: 500 LED lights and lanterns

Double-knot bottles Ribbons, etc. 500

Rose tree, roses, menu 1000

Publicity expenses billboard 1000

Newspaper 1000

Promotional brochure 800 < /p>

Total 12,800

(2) Activity benefit analysis

1. Social benefit

Social benefit is the comprehensive benefit in business operations, and is related to Economic benefits are closely related. Good social benefits can promote the improvement of economic benefits. Make enterprises in an invincible position in the fierce social competition. Establishing a hotel's social image is an important part of a hotel's social benefits. It includes both visibility and reputation. The hotel's Valentine's Day event is also a measure to increase its visibility and reputation. ## As the earliest star-rated hotel in ##x, the Grand Hotel has accumulated rich experience in customer service and has provided perfect service to all kinds of customers.

This Valentine's Day event, the hotel also responds to the needs of social development, constantly improves and innovates the event, and strives to achieve perfection. Let the old brand ##x no longer be eliminated in the progress of society. On 2.14, a day full of love, let more couples continue their love.

2. Economic Benefits

Valentine’s Day is a typical Western festival, but in recent years it has become a festival that our country’s young people look forward to every year, and its popularity has greatly exceeded our country’s traditional festival. Chinese Valentine's Day. On this day, couples will arrange many activities to celebrate this special holiday. This makes Valentine’s Day on February 14th the first consumption peak after the Spring Festival. Many merchants are proactively seizing this opportunity and conducting various promotional activities in order to achieve a sales increase at the beginning of the year. We are no exception and must seize this opportunity.

The main consumer group during Valentine’s Day is unmarried young people aged 20-25, accounting for about 52%, followed by married couples aged 25-35, accounting for about 43%, and the elderly over 50 years old. Consumer groups also account for nearly 5%; consumers’ purchasing behavior is mainly to purchase gifts (flowers, chocolates, etc.), entertainment, and meals. Hotels should seize the opportunity to greatly increase hotel revenue while meeting customer needs on 2.14. Recently, the state has strictly prohibited eating and drinking with public funds, which has caused great losses in the hotel industry. Why not slowly change the main body of hotel consumers so that more people are willing to enter hotels and spend money. By trying out different festivals, we can discover what customers want and allow the hotel to launch more attractive activities. Valentine's Day is the first holiday after the New Year. Think about what customers think and need, 20% of customers can create 80% of revenue. Hotel and restaurant Valentine’s Day event planning plan 3

1. Activity background

Valentine’s Day on March 14th is coming. It is important to create a romantic and warm holiday for consumers. Every hotel is working hard. Based on the operating characteristics of our hotel and the consumption habits of regular customers. This is our Valentine’s Day promotion plan for this year.

2. Activity theme

XX Hotel Valentine’s Day (God-given marriage, love determined by heaven)

3. Activity time

20xx February 14th

IV. Event location

Main location: Champs Island Western Restaurant (sixth floor of the hotel)

Secondary location: Guest room

Five. Activity methods

1. Create a warm and charming palace of love for consumers through romantic scene decoration;

2. Place "lover's message" "Card" for couples to write vows of love on it

3. The guest room has a "pink couple suite", which is cleverly decorated and presented with roses, chocolates, and champagne

6. Atmosphere Construction

1. Set up a truss on the periphery for advertising

2. The electronic screen and LED screen in the lobby will scroll about the event content

3. The first floor and sixth floor Place a small display stand on each floor

4. Place a candlestick and a rose on each table in the restaurant on the sixth floor

5. The entire restaurant is decorated with white tablecloths, white chairs, wintersweet, sand Decorate the entire restaurant

6. Place a bouquet of flowers (lilies, calla lilies) on the bar counter

7. Set up an arched flower column at the entrance of the western restaurant

8. Color The lights and shamans were decorated with pink balloons

9. Take photos on site (Polaroid 20 yuan/photo)

10. Set up a champagne tower on the dining table

2. SMS release: 1,300 yuan (20,000 messages)

3. Internal advertising release: (electronic screen, Sanming TV subtitle scrolling frequency, including inkjet printing)

4. Advertisement text:

A. God-given marriage, love determines destiny.

(Advertising words)

B. Spring letters bloom, roses bloom, love comes, and your story begins; Valentine’s Day is here, prepare a cherished gift at Tianyuan Hotel, and then carry it gently Let her or him meet you on this romantic day. (SMS)

8. Event Arrangement

1. Marketing Department: Launch event advertising before March 10th.

2. Other departments will formulate detailed rules for Valentine’s Day activities in conjunction with the marketing plan before March 10th.

3. The restaurant and guest rooms should do a good job in creating a Valentine’s Day atmosphere before March 13th.

4. Engineering Department: In conjunction with the activity plan, make arrangements for lighting and electricity use and the production of special props. Hotel and restaurant Valentine’s Day event planning plan 4

1. Activity theme:

“Travel through Valentine’s Night and meet a more beautiful you”

1. Targeted at 20-40 A single customer who is 20 years old organized a Valentine's Day bachelor party with the theme of "Suddenly Meeting You, Meeting a More Beautiful You". With the gimmick of "perfect encounter, expanding your circle of friends and finding a partner", it not only meets the dating needs of single groups, but also attracts more target groups with its unique environment and creative highlights of activities, and drives restaurant sales.

2. For couples aged 20-40, a Valentine’s Day couple’s party will be held with the theme of “Romantic Year Aftertaste”. Taking the commemorative needs of wedding days and love days as an opportunity to attract target groups to visit the store for consumption.

2. Communication planning

Posters for the pre-event activities from 2.10 to 2.14 were distributed in large numbers, and the areas were set in office buildings, shopping malls, and downtown areas, mainly targeting the target group of 20-40 years old.

NP advertising campaign was launched on Valentine’s Day on 2.14 to build momentum.

Consumption vouchers will be issued during the 2.14-2.16 event

3. Event time:

2.12-2.14

4. Activity content

Taking the theme activities of Valentine's Day as the main line, and assisted by the early coupon rebate promotion, a three-day marketing activity with the theme of "Traveling through Valentine's Day Night to Find a More Beautiful You" was held, targeting the day of February 14th. , organizing the "Suddenly Meeting You" singles dating party and the "Romantic Aftertaste of the Year" couples dating party.

Single groups aged 20-40 years old - "Traveling through Valentine's Day and suddenly meeting you" large-scale singles dating party:

All singles can participate in the party held by XX Western Restaurant on February 14th The city's large-scale singles dating party provides the most comfortable and romantic platform and space for you to find your perfect partner with high-level dating partners, a humanistic and romantic restaurant atmosphere, and highly creative and interesting activities.

Anyone who successfully makes friends on the day of the event can enjoy a 50% discount on food and beverages. (Specific discounts will be determined by the restaurant depending on the situation)

Couples and couples aged 20-40 years old - "Traveling through Valentine's Day and romantically recalling the New Year" couple theme party:

As long as If you have a partner, you can participate in the couples theme party held by XX restaurant on February 14th. Couples and couples who go to Western restaurants on Valentine's Day can get a 50% discount on food and beverages. Customers whose wedding anniversary is February 14th, as long as If you dare to tell your romantic love story, you can enjoy a free couple's set meal provided by this western restaurant.

5. On-site atmosphere creation

A. Restaurant peripheral layout

①. Valentine’s Day magpie bridge shape layout → add the cultural characteristics of the restaurant

Creatively design a large Valentine's Day magpie bridge door at the entrance of the western restaurant, using the cultural customs of the traditional Valentine's Day Xiangqiao Party to add to the humanistic style and festive uniqueness of the western restaurant. In this way, we attract the attention of consumers and invite well-known local photography agencies to join in, leaving the most beautiful image of Valentine's Day for every consumer who enters the store.

②. Antique promotional pillars → point out the theme of the event

Abandon the traditional Chinese pillars and creatively design antique promotional pillars based on the Valentine’s Day marketing theme and label them with “ The theme slogan of the event, "Meet a more beautiful you through Valentine's Day night", plays a role in promoting the event and creating an atmosphere.

B. Hall environment and atmosphere layout

①. Chinese lantern layout for Valentine’s Day

Chinese lanterns are set up in the lobby and main aisles of the western restaurant to add humanity to the hall. style.

②. Design and layout of promotional hanging flags

Unify the design and content of promotional hanging flags according to the Valentine's Day marketing theme, and arrange them in an orderly manner with creative shapes for event promotion and atmosphere creation. .

③. Design and layout of the photo receiving desk

Set up the photo receiving desk (initially designated as the front desk) according to the actual venue, and arrange it with event-themed styling, such as sign-in boards, styling Gauze, X display rack, etc.

④. Zonal stage styling and layout

Carry out zoning planning and design, stage creative styling design, and layout based on the actual restaurant site.

⑤. Light and shadow art equipment layout

Arrange the lighting equipment, light and shadow performance equipment, etc. required for the day of the event based on the actual restaurant venue.

6. Event arrangements and procedures for the Valentine’s Day singles area

(Singles area)

Beautiful photos taken on Valentine’s Day night – invite well-known local photography agencies to join, Take photos at the magpie bridge-shaped door at the entrance of the western restaurant. Firstly, entering as a Valentine's Day event can quickly gather popularity and create publicity topics; secondly, the photos taken contain the unique information of the western restaurant, which can be used as an effective carrier of word-of-mouth promotion among the target consumer groups.

Enjoy a unique literary feast - on the day of the Valentine's Day theme event, arrange a theatrical performance that is integrated with the restaurant culture to quickly increase the enthusiasm of the event participants.

14 Minutes of Romantic Heartbeat - It is the main part of the single dating party in this area. In the name of "14 Minutes of Romantic Heartbeat", with the dim lighting style of the Western restaurant as a foil, all customers present have 14 minutes. "Finding companion time", this part is full of surprises, challenges, and fun.

A perfect encounter on Valentine's Day night - a 15-minute melodious music performance during the event set off the atmosphere of the entire event.

17:30-18:30 (the specific time arrangement can be adjusted appropriately according to the actual local conditions). The welcoming staff of the western restaurant will guide customers to enter. At the Magpie Bridge shape at the entrance of the restaurant, a professional photography agency will take photos of each customer. A customer who entered the store took a photo to quickly gain popularity. Hotel restaurant Valentine’s Day event planning plan 5

1. Activity format and theme

The event will be held in the hotel food court in the form of separate meals to highlight the romantic and warm Valentine’s Day atmosphere

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2. Specific arrangements for the event

1. Venue layout: The hotel food court will be arranged before xx on xx (place green plants between tables and in the aisles, and post hotel POP Flags, good lighting configuration);

2. Advertising: The public relations and marketing department will produce 10 promotional posters before xx, xx, and they will be placed in Biyibi Supermarket, Guizhai Road, Fireworks Goddess Square, Xinjiang Posted on Wen Road, Renmin Road, Jinsha Road, Liuyang River Road, hotel gates, front halls, and pedestrian streets

3. Other matters related to Valentine's Day activities:

a. Dining starts from 17:00 Starting at 30

b. The public relations and marketing department will order 200 roses before the afternoon of xx, xx

4. Marketing method:

Adopt on-site marketing , guests can go directly to the bar to purchase tickets and dine, and each couple will receive a bouquet of roses.

3. Recipes

(68 yuan/person) Seven portions of borscht or corn cream soup, seven portions of butter dinner bag, seven portions of mandarin duck steak (steak in black pepper sauce/tomato sauce) Seven pieces of fruit platter, 1 piece of vegetable salad, 1 piece of red wine/coffee/black tea

Note: Guests can also order other dishes (including Chinese food) of their own choice.