The silver hair group in KTV
Color scarves and warm cups in the lobby, young KTV waiters know that aunts and aunts have come.
at least one day every week, Zhang Tuanrong, a 59 year old Beijing citizen, will report to a Fengtai District KTV, a song of the song and friends. From Monday to Friday, less than 11 a.m., the lobby is lined up. Male customers wear monotonous sportswear, female customers like instant noodles, and colorful silk scarves.
these people are the main force to support the KTV's non weekend business. They are holding the afternoon time, one by one, and will not waste one second. Some people will come one or two times a week, and KTV's box is as familiar as its own backyard. Most of them appear in groups of three and five. A familiar visitor came alone every week and sang for an afternoon, even though the haze of Beijing's exploding watch could not stop her personal performance.
in more KTV, this is a trend: the afternoon of work day is being filled by middle-aged and old consumers. This way of entertainment which was introduced into mainland China in the 90s of last century has long been hard to call fashion, but suddenly it has been revitalization in the twilight years.
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this age, KTV came to sing only two kinds of people, students and the elderly.
this is the observation of Ma Yan, a northeastern girl. She moved to Beijing at the age of 19, and is now a KTV attendant at Zhang Tuanrong. All sorts of customers push open the glass doors with plastic diamonds and brass - colored aluminum ornaments. Most of them are not singing: the business man of the suit, a box and a brother, the music is the background, the young, the poker, the table, a bottle of wine. There are also classmates, blind dates, fellow townsmen, colleagues, and eyes in the shadows.
in all the customers, the elderly are the most demanding groups of singing, which is also the consensus of Chen Zhichao, another KTV manager of KTV, and Ma Ziqiang, the manager of KTV. They know best that the elderly require the most frequent tuning. Some old people are confident that the allocation of a certain sound is more suitable for their singing voice, so they strive to spend every time in the old place. They queued up ahead of time to get the box's priority. Chen Zhichao often needs to mediate disputes and appease the unfamiliar familiar customers.
there is another feature of this group: they are not interested in all services other than singing.
they never order meals, nor spend money on fruit plates or snacks. They use plastic bags to bring melon seeds and fruits. Sometimes an aunt cuts a half watermelon with a fruit knife at a snack shop. They basically have a thermos cup and frequently request hot water. In order to relieve the pressure of the waiter's water supply, Chen Zhichao bought a boiled water heater at the end of the KTV European style soft loaded corridor.
Ma Yan had seen an old lady coming in with an electric cooker with the guests sitting together in the box, the white rice in the pot steaming hot, all the dishes and chopsticks. It was noon, when it was hungry. The song did not stop. People kept putting down the bowl and chopsticks, picking up the microphone and singing their own song.
most of these KTV are prohibited from taking out food, but they can only turn a blind eye to customers. If the elderly have.Amp, lsquo three high (high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia).Amp; rsquo, trouble comes to trouble. Chen Zhichao said, and did not bear the heart.
most of the time, these guests will pick up the table after the afternoon of the repeated call to the waitress, repack it, get rid of the garbage and throw it away, and wipe the tea with a paper towel. It's their habit, too.
waiting for the opening of the afternoon session, taking pictures is their main program. Auntie 32 gathered together and pulled out their cell phones to aim at themselves. Mobile phones are mostly domestic brands. There are also iPhone, mostly old ones, and some scarred ones, like children being eliminated.
at this time, it is Ma Yan's task to take a picture of the group. Most of the old people prefer to take the collective photos more than self portraits. She herself took the photo last time and graduated from high school.
the group will make a good appointment in advance and time, and few people will be late. Checkout is also a system. There is always one person looking for Ma Yan to consume details, and bring them back to facilitate the fair calculation of money.
Ma Yan found that many of these people were friends in the WeChat group.
Zhang Tuanrong is the group leader of a group of song friends. For her friends on the WeChat, she holds the six word anti fraud Proverbs: don't believe in, do not go deep into friendship.
Zhang Tuanrong's husband doesn't like singing, he prefers to watch the live broadcast of the Northeast girl on the little video of volcano. Zhang Tuanrong could not understand this pleasure and never object to it. She only reminds her husband occasionally not to smash money on the live broadcast, so don't be fooled.
even though appreciating the benefits of mobile phones, Zhang Tuanrong persists in grasping the limits between money and money. Red envelopes are issued on holidays, and no money is inflow or outflow. The Internet is so vast that she doesn't understand the principles, and worries about who will take the account away. When
pays for KTV, most of the elderly people who are familiar with WeChat and other applications pay cash. They also often do not understand the complex rules of business concessions, many people directly to the mobile phone to Ma Yan, girl, please do it for me.
times are different, but times are finding them. A financial company regularly organized KTV activities in the elderly through WeChat group, and Li Xiugen, 60, was one of the participants. The cost of singing is still to be taken care of. The company only provides a box lunch before singing. A group of elderly people must listen to the KTV hall for 10 minutes to get it. Then 8 people in a group, divided into the boxes.
the randomly formed group and the spontaneously clustered group are quite different. Spontaneously gather together to sing music, sing more and sing less. People do not care much about it. But the economy always has its own economic rules. The old customers spontaneously obey the unwritten rules. Sometimes, when the new arrival is full of fun, even two songs will surely be met with protest.
Li Xiugen never protested, feeling too impersonal. She can't listen to the lecture and understand the card to the little girl who is in charge: I can't spend a penny. I'm glad if you still take me to sing. I don't have any opinion if I want to kick me out of the WeChat group. She is still in the group.
companies sometimes organize meals after the end of the song. There are always elderly people who invest 100 thousand yuan in financial products. Maybe they are really willing to invest. Maybe they can't wipe out a few meals.