When the government moved to Taiwan in 1949, the restaurant was privatized under a policy directive that the government shouldn't compete with the private sector. The cooks and the wait staff stayed on, and its clientele remained mostly mainlanders-particularly KMT party officials, bureaucrats and servicemen. There are always sentimental bonds between an old restaurant and its customers that transcend mere food. Families have held wedding banquets here for three generations.
國府遷台後，基於「官不與民爭利」，於 1949 年改制為民營，廚師、服務生維持原班人馬，座上嘉賓仍以外省人，乃至黨、政、軍要員為主。