The golden ideas for running a hot pot restaurant are store location, store size and capacity, pot bottom formula, budget planning and effective business hours every day.

1. Store location

You can choose supermarkets, CBD, cinemas, etc., and you can choose "store-in-store" on the safe side. The rent may be a little more expensive, but the basic flow of people is the foundation of your hot pot restaurant. It is better to have many restaurants around you.

2. Store size and customer capacity

Hot pot restaurants must be at least 311 square meters, with stalls, scattered seats, boxes, etc., which can accommodate about 111 people at the same time. The nature of hot pot is to follow the principle of "turnover rate" and "concentration rate". You can go to see successful hot pot restaurants, such as "Haidilao" and "Little Sheep".

3. Pot bottom formula

This online market is full of many expensive recipes. You can choose an experienced chef from a hot pot restaurant to taste the bottom of the pot in other hot pot restaurants first, and then develop and study the "soup head" and "pot bottom" to develop a delicious pot bottom formula yourself.

4. Budget planning

mainly includes rent, decoration, utilities, property fees, labor costs, miscellaneous fees, etc. The most important point is to calculate the "critical turnover" of how much turnover can be achieved every day according to the input.

5. Effective business hours per day

Different types of hot pot have different time periods. Some only cook dinner and supper, some cook Chinese food and supper, and some cook Chinese food, dinner and supper. According to the habits of local consumers and the ability of their own hot pot restaurants, they can flexibly adjust the "effective business hours" suitable for their own hot pot restaurants.