Haidilao: Selling hotpot or selling service?
Haidilao is one of China’s most popular hotpot chains. For a hotpot restaurant, customers have food in a help-themselves way. It is difficult to offer product differentiations. Haidilao makes service quality a critical differentiator and builds a human resources system to ensure service quality becomes its core competence.
- How to create a differentiation when the product differentiation is not possible?
- How to motivate employees?
- How to create a service-oriented culture?
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