Tan Chang 'an, owner of Tan Fish Head: How did I bring down the Billion Asset Group?
Three months later, on June 25th, 165438+, Tan Changan, the founder of Tan Yutou, accepted an exclusive interview with Red Star Capital Bureau. Whether talking about the identity of "Lao Lai" or gambling rumors, he seems very calm. Just as soon as I heard that I was going to shoot a video, I quickly changed my clothes and said, "I still have to pay attention to the image."
The day before, Tan Changan just opened a number in Tik Tok, telling his ups and downs: the closure of almost all stores, the cancellation of catering companies all over the country, and the high debts caused by historical problems have been included in the breach of trust for more than 10 times. ...
autumn
Tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions of assets.
collapse
"It shocked the catering industry and shocked myself."
What is the "collapse" mentioned by Tan Changan in his personal video number? Summarizing the present situation of Tan fish head, Tan Changan said: "Tan fish head is basically gone now."
In 20 14, Tan Changan left Chengdu to live in Hong Kong until after the epidemic this year. 165438+1October 25th, he said in an exclusive interview with Red Star Capital Bureau that he had hardly been back during this period.
It was in these six years that his huge "Tanyutou Empire" collapsed.
The Red Star Capital Bureau noticed that during Tan Changan's absence from Chengdu in recent years, news about Tan Yutou broke out sporadically.
For example, "Tan Changan, chairman of Tan Yutou, denies that Macao owes 20 million yuan", "Sichuan debt collection company shares Tan Yutou's debt, and there are more than 100 chain stores in the country", and "Who owns the brand right after the property where Tan Yutou lives is auctioned?" "What about Tan Yutou's 1, 000 yuan owner membership card?" ……
Behind these gimmicky news headlines, the deteriorating business situation of Tan Yutou is obvious.
However, the official recognition of the fall of Tan's fish head is what Tan Changan said in his personal video account 165438 on October 24: "Such a huge catering system collapsed in just a few years, shocking the catering industry and myself."
Tan Changan said that in the past, he had tens of thousands of employees, hundreds of acres of factory buildings and nearly 10 billion assets, and his stores were all over the country, including Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong. Since then, Tanyutou has become the first enterprise to take hot pot abroad, and "once reached the peak of catering".
Now, in mid-August this year, Tan Yutou closed the last store in Chengdu, the base camp. Most of the remaining stores in other cities were "tossed" by Tan Yutou's employees at that time. "It's fake!" Tan Changan said.
With the closure of shops all over the country, local companies, decoration companies and logistics companies established in cooperation with the operation have also been cancelled, revoked and dissolved.
be listed
Two back door attempts failed.
"Destiny can't go public, don't force it."
Tan Chang 'an himself clearly summed up the reason why Tan Fish Head really began to decline: it was because he wanted to go public.
According to reports, in 200 1 year, Tan Changan went to Hong Kong to establish Hong Kong Tanyutou Group Holding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hong Kong Tanyutou"); In 2003, the first Tanyutou branch in Hong Kong opened in Causeway Bay.
Tan Changan said that the purpose of opening companies and branches in Hong Kong is to go public.
"After we started a company in Hong Kong, we all followed the rules of listing. The accounting firm we invited is also PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the standards are all made by standardized listed companies. " Tan Changan introduced.
In 2009, Tan Changan met the first listing opportunity.
At that time, Fuji Food (0 1 175, HK) filed a liquidation application with the Hong Kong High Court on June 5438+1October 65438+September due to problems such as cash flow and personnel turnover. Tan Changan took a fancy to this shell resource, and Fuji also has restaurant resources in the mainland. He was very excited. He cooperated with Huang Yinghao, then the chairman of Hong Kong Resources (02882, HK), to win Fuji.
According to Tan Changan, at that time, he had submitted a bid to Fuji's liquidator Deloitte Certified Public Accountants, and paid a deposit of 6,543,807,000 yuan, preparing to win Fuji for HK$ 238 million, just one step away from the capital market. Tan Changan recalled that Huang Yinghao's subsequent talk to the media led to the failure of this reorganization. "After he was interviewed, many mainland catering enterprises flocked. The real kung fu is here and South Beauty is here. "
In the end, these catering enterprises all failed. Anhui Venture Capital, with a state-owned background, was returned to Fuji at a price of HK$ 658 million.
The second backdoor is more dramatic.
20 1 1 Tan Chang 'an met his hometown in Chengdu on a flight. This fellow villager said that he has a "shell" that makes medicine in Hong Kong, but his business is not good and he wants to sell it. The Red Star Capital Bureau noticed that the shell was VIOS Group (0 1 164, HK) at that time.
Similar to the first backdoor story, when he was preparing to quietly win Vio Group for more than HK$ 200 million, he was robbed of more than HK$ 984 million by China Uranium Industry Development Company under China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation (0 18 16, HK).
After two unsuccessful backdoor attempts, Tan Yutou began to prepare his own IPO. Tan Changan believes that it is this decision that directly affects the fate of Tan Yutao.
Tan Changan recalled that at that time, he signed a gambling agreement with a venture capital company in Hong Kong: the venture capital was 20 million US dollars, and it took Tan Yutou three years to achieve the profit target and let the company go public. Tan Changan said that according to the scale of 20 million US dollars, he began to prepare, decorate and open stores intensively, and even made equity investments in other hot pot companies.
However, according to Tan Changan, the promised $20 million has been spent, but the venture capital money has only reached the previous $5 million. And this hole of $6.5438+0.5 million directly caused the tension of the follow-up capital chain.
20 13, another news made Tan Changan's financial problems worse. At that time, Sichuan media released a message that a microfinance company sued Tan Yutou Investment Company and Tan Changan, demanding that they immediately repay the loan principal/kloc-0.5 million yuan and interest of more than 2.2 million yuan.
The news of the size of this "tofu block" further reduced Tan Changan's reputation in the bank and increased the difficulty of borrowing money. As for the 6,543,805,000 yuan owed to the small loan company, Tan Changan said that this was a loan to his younger brother, and he made a guarantee. My brother didn't pay back the money, and he was also taken to court.
Even so, Tan Changan said that Hangzhou Bank still has a loan line of 50 million. However, counting the high loan interest, it is difficult for him to meet the profit requirements in the gambling agreement, and he will also face high gambling compensation.
In this way, "a few things together, delayed the time. In the end, there is no such thing. "
"It is destiny takes a hand that it should not be listed or listed, so it should not be forced." Tan Changan said.
gambler
I did gamble. I'm so stupid.
If I win, I will give you 65,438+10,000, and everyone will come as soon as they hear that I won.
Talking about Tan Changan and gambling is an unavoidable topic.
Searching for the keyword "Tan Fish Head" in search engines such as Baidu, the first sentence that pops up is: Tan Fish Head's boss Macau has lost all. Tan Changan analyzed that the reason for Tan's "crash" was that he wanted to go public, and in many analysis articles, Tan Changan's gambling habit was the direct reason for Tan's downfall.
According to the Southern Weekend report, Tan Chang 'an also appeared on the now closed Macao debt collection website "Good World" and was recovered from gambling funds of 20 million yuan.
For this statement, Tan Changan said it was unreasonable.
"I did gamble, and I can't avoid this." Interestingly, Tan Changan's focus is not on his "no gambling", but on his "record":
"It's not like preaching, gambling is useless. Actually I won. "
Talking about this topic, Tan Changan showed obvious excitement and reached out to show everyone present the action of "giving money": "At that time, my friends loved to go to the casino with me, and I would give money if I won. For example, I will give you 65,438+10,000 yuan and give him 200,000 yuan. Everyone will come as soon as they hear that I won. "
How did the gambling debt on the debt collection website come from?
Tan Changan said that many friends who go to casinos together will gamble with his chips. "It is equivalent to giving you 3 million principal, and he took 5 million, but he refused to recognize it later, and he could not receive the money. The account will be on me. "
In addition to the generosity in the casino, Tan Changan said that he usually does the same. "My employees are famous brands from head to toe. I bought shirts, suits and shoes. It costs millions to buy clothes a year. "
"I'm so stupid." Tan Changan said.
Probably because of the ups and downs of gambling experience, Tan Changan said that he had no concept of money. Take Yun, who was ridiculed as Versailles by netizens, repeatedly stressed when chatting with Red Star Capital Bureau: "I don't care much about money" and "how much money I earn is not important".
"Making money is not the ultimate goal of people, but living a relaxed and happy life."
Compared with his high-spirited photos in days of our lives, Tan Changan is a paunchy man now. Speak casually, just like an ordinary fat middle-aged man. After the interview, I chatted with Tan Changan. He said that if there were no interview arrangements, he would have gone to the market to buy hot pot seasoning dried Chili. "These young people can't buy it."
I just don't know if Tan Changan, who is picking dried peppers in the market now, will feel like a lifetime ago when he thinks of the drunken fans in Macau casinos and the intertwined KTV and nightclubs.
Dead seal
When I was poorest, I had no money in my pocket.
The most important way to pay back the money is to sell the fixed assets.
Whether it is gambling debts, secured loans, or debts left by listing expansion ... Now, Tan Changan has also begun to stage his own "true story".
After many companies were revoked, Chengdu Tanyutou Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tanyutou Investment Company") is now the most important company under Tan Changan.
According to Tianyancha APP, this company, founded in 1997, has become an untrustworthy company publicized in the Supreme People's Court in 20 17, and has been listed as a restricted high-consumption enterprise for 7 times; 5 1 time was sued for labor disputes, loan contract disputes, private lending disputes and other reasons; 20 19, 2020 was listed in the business exception list because it failed to submit the annual report information as required.
According to Tan Changan, Tanyutou Investment Company also bears the most important historical legacy of Tanyutou: debt.
Tan Changan said that the company's debt problem itself is not clear about the specific situation, and investment companies have been dealing with it. The most important way to "pay back the money" is to sell the fixed assets such as the previous real estate.
As for Tan Changan himself, he has already become an "old lai".
The Red Star Asset Management Bureau noticed that he was listed as an executor of dishonesty for more than 10 times. The last time was June 3 this year.
However, Tan Changan said that he "didn't know" how much money he still owed and whether he was restricted from high consumption. He also said that he has never been in first class or first class. "This has no impact on my life." Tan Changan said that these are all the responsibilities of Tan Yutou Investment Company. "Let's go according to normal procedures, and it's time to pay back."
However, during his life in Hong Kong, Tan Changan also encountered very embarrassing times. "When I was poorest, I didn't have a dollar in my pocket."
But even so, because of the long-term "generous" staffing, Tan Changan can't pull his face to find someone else to "support". "Everyone thinks Tan Changan is a big boss. How can he have no money? "
Although it claimed that there was no impact, the Red Star Capital Bureau learned in the exchange that Tan Changan's two mobile phone numbers were set to "white list" and other phones could not be dialed. It is not clear whether this is done to avoid creditors' recovery.
chafing dish
The service of Haidilao is no small matter.
"This kind of treatment is usually enjoyed in nightclubs."
Although not in Chengdu, Tan Changan is also very concerned about the mainstream hot pot brands on the market.
In the six years since he left Chengdu, Haidilao, a hot pot chain enterprise originating from Jianyang, Chengdu, went public on 20 18. There is also fish head hot pot, and fellow brothers have also become online celebrity stores, which have caught fire in cities such as Shanghai.
Tan Changan believes that the success of Haidilao is inevitable.
"Tan fish head chain, very hot, haidilao only Xi an shop. At that time, its income was not very good, and it could not be compared with us. But at that time, it emphasized service first and did a very good job. "
Tan Changan said that when he went to Haidilao for the first time and came out of the bathroom, the waiter at the door gave him a piece of toilet paper very quickly, which startled him. "This kind of service is generally enjoyed in karaoke, hotels and nightclubs, but it can also be enjoyed in restaurants. This service is not a trivial matter. " He thinks it is reasonable for Haidilao to win the market in the later period.
But when it comes to "online celebrity shops", he doesn't recognize it.
He believes that many "network celebrities" hot pot restaurants in the Internet era are "two concepts" with what Tan Yutau did in his heyday. "Eating hot pot now is not just for the taste. First of all, is there anything unconventional in your store that makes them want to punch in?"
"From this perspective, China's catering is not going forward, but going backwards. I don't agree. The most important thing is other links such as quality and service. "
cewebrity
I don't recognize it, but I'm trying to get close.
Someone helped shoot the video.
However, the number of likes has dropped sharply.
On the one hand, online celebrities are not recognized; On the other hand, Tan Changan seems to be trying to get closer to "network celebrities".
On June 24th, 2020, 165438+ Tan Changan updated his first video in Tik Tok. Within 10 hour, the video received tens of thousands of likes and thousands of comments.
Why do you want to send videos on the short video platform as an "online celebrity"?
In his own opinion, he became a soldier at the age of 65,438+07, changed jobs eight years later, and founded the first "hot pot chain" in Tanyutou ... These experiences and stories are very rich. Sharing these experiences with you can make you "less detours" and "learn useful things".
Although Tan Chang 'an doesn't admit that he wants to be an "internet celebrity", the Red Star Capital Bureau notes that he is actually preparing for his "comeback".
Tan Changan said that he returned to Chengdu this year because he was invited by some friends and former Tan Yutou executives. "Plus many of their children can't find the direction of starting a business, so I will help them do it together." The Red Star Capital Bureau found that a hot pot restaurant originally located in Shuangnan, Chengdu, is now being transformed into a "Tanyutou" store, and is also conducting a trial operation of fish head hot pot.
He introduced that he doesn't have any shares now, but as a professional manager, he works for these friends.
In addition to sending short videos, he also began to study formal things such as shop decoration and food setting. "After 20 years of catering, these formal things are still very simple." Tan Changan said.
Tan Chang' an is confident in his future expectations: "If you want to do well now, you must do more than before."
The Red Star Capital Bureau noticed that in the new store he tried to open, there was black and white portrait photography on the one hand and a photo of Tan Changan and the star on the other. It is not a style with the gorgeous decoration of the early tan fish head.
There are also special young people in the store who are responsible for shooting his Tik Tok audio and video, and they enthusiastically give advice to the Red Star Capital Bureau: "This is our common seat in Tik Tok, and it is easier to shoot here."
It will take time to test whether Tan Changan can become an "online celebrity" and whether Tan Yutou can be recognized by the market again.
When talking about whether there is still a vision of listing, Tan Changan shook his head again and again: No, no, who fell in love with whom.
Editor Chen Cheng
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