Businessman An Dawei surveys a warehouse of decommissioned kitchen equipment, symbols of China's struggling restaurant sector ...

Record 3 million China restaurants went ... "For the average person, opening a restaurant is almost a guaranteed failure," said the 38-year-old who sells used kitchen equipment.

Workers collect used kitchen equipment from an out-of-business bakery in Beijing A restaurant in China has an average lifespan of just about 500 days, analysts say, falling to as low as a year in ...