Colleagues of the bus team of Qin Yuanhong, affectionately called Qin Yuanhong as "Qin Ma". No one could have imagined that "Qin Ma", the nickname given to Qin Yuanhong by her colleagues, would later become a loud signboard in the history of hot pot.

With his own diligence and pursuit of quality, a laid-off transit worker who took the initiative to be shunted out of his job has turned a roadside stall with only six tables into a globally renowned hotpot empire with more than 700 hotpot stores in major cities, annual sales of more than 2.5 billion yuan, and a workforce of nearly 40,000 people.

A few days ago, this never-say-die outstanding entrepreneurs, due to medical treatment, left this world she has been attached to. Qin Yuanhong's death, shocked the entire catering industry, Qin Ma hot pot incense is still there, the world from now on do not "Qin Ma".

When the state-owned enterprises restructuring personnel streaming, in Chongqing, a bus road team working Qin Yuanhong, chose to take the initiative to lay off, became an extremely ordinary laid-off workers.

Without waiting or relying on Qin Yuanhong, she chose to start a business with her husband Li Jie. In Chongqing Hongqihegou bus hub nearby, with nearly 20,000 yuan of savings, and borrowed a sum of money, the couple opened the first step of their entrepreneurial life.

"Qin Ma hot pot restaurant" opened! This is only 30 square meters, 6 tables, 8 employees of the roadside store, but because of the hot pot store owner and the owner's diligence and the pursuit of quality, operating only a week, "Qin Ma hot pot store" on track.

Qin Yuanhong also because "this store soup good, good food, the boss is better, and open-minded!

Qin Yuanhong also because of the "good soup, good food, the boss is better, and open-minded!" of the word of mouth effect, and immediately became a household name in the vicinity of the California Garden "celebrity", the small hot pot restaurant, soon began to popularize the north of the Yangtze River, a lot of people have come to taste.

Qin Yuanhong tasted the sweetness of doing catering, "Qin Ma hot pot store" business is booming, so she decided to ensure that the quality of food on the basis of excellence, bigger and stronger Qin Ma this hot pot famous brand.

"Qin Ma hot pot store" in Chongqing Hongqihegou bus hub near the opening of only six months, she was very bold "Qin Ma hot pot store" one-time expansion of nearly double the store. Originally there were only six tables in the roadside hot pot store, the number of tables inside the store reached 50.

A hot pot "layman", opened only two years, Qin Yuanhong opened a rapid expansion of the "Qin Ma hot pot store" initiative: Qin Ma California store, Qin Yuanhong soon opened a flower garden store.

The scale of the hot pot restaurant has expanded, a store manager needs to manage both production, but also need to manage the store, will certainly let themselves always exhausted. Qin Yuanhong's vision, into the "corporate management" of this new term: a group of industry elites to help me manage the store!

Chongqing Qinmao Catering Culture Co., Ltd. was formally established, "shopkeeper" Qin Yuanhong, turned into the chairman of the board of Qinmao Catering. Chairman Qin Yuanhong immediately on their own business "expansion":

Recruitment of highly educated, highly experienced management personnel, professional titles of technicians, political engineers, economists, as well as accountants, to enrich their own businesses.

From a small roadside store, Qin Ma Hot Pot has grown rapidly over more than a decade and is now a hot pot chain empire. Qin Yuanhong, a laid-off worker from a state-owned enterprise back then, has written a legendary story of entrepreneurship with his own efforts.