Qin Yuanhong’s colleagues in the bus team affectionately call Qin Yuanhong “Qin’s mother”. No one could have imagined that "Qin Ma", the nickname given to Qin Yuanhong by her colleagues, would later become a resounding sign in the history of hot pot.

A bus team worker who took the initiative to divert laid-off workers, with his diligence and pursuit of quality, expanded a roadside stall with only 6 tables into 700 restaurants in major cities across the country. It is a world-renowned hot pot empire with multiple hot pot stores, annual sales exceeding 2.5 billion yuan, and nearly 40,000 employees.

A few days ago, this excellent entrepreneur who never gave up passed away from this world that she had always cared about due to ineffective treatment for her illness. Qin Yuanhong's death shocked the entire catering industry across the country. The fragrance of Qin Ma's hot pot is still there, and "Qin Ma" will never be seen again in the world.

When state-owned enterprises were restructured and their personnel were diverted, Qin Yuanhong, who worked on a bus team in Chongqing, chose to be laid off and became a very ordinary laid-off worker.

Qin Yuanhong, who did not wait or rely, chose to start a business with her husband Li Jie. Near the Hongqi Hegou Bus Terminal Station in Chongqing, with savings of nearly 20,000 yuan and a borrowed capital, the couple took the first step in their entrepreneurial life.

"Qin Ma Hotpot Restaurant" is open! This roadside restaurant with only over 30 square meters, 6 dining tables and 8 employees, due to the diligence and pursuit of quality of the hot pot restaurant owner and proprietress, "Qin Ma Hot Pot Restaurant" has taken off in just one week of operation. On track.

Qin Yuanhong also became a well-known "celebrity" near California Garden because of the word-of-mouth effect of "This shop has good soup, good food, and the lady boss is nicer and open-minded!" This small hot pot restaurant has become a household name near California Garden. , soon became popular in Jiangbei, and many people came to taste it.

Qin Yuanhong tasted the benefits of catering. The business of "Qin Ma Hot Pot Restaurant" was booming, so she decided to make Qin Ma's famous hot pot brand bigger and stronger while ensuring the quality of the dishes and keeping improving.

The "Qin Ma Hot Pot Restaurant" has only been open for half a year near the Hongqi Hegou Bus Terminal Station in Chongqing. She has boldly expanded the "Qin Ma Hot Pot Restaurant" to nearly double the store area at one time. The roadside hotpot restaurant that originally had only six tables now has 50 tables inside.

As a hot pot "layman", Qin Yuanhong started the rapid expansion of "Qin Ma Hot Pot Restaurant" only two years after its opening: after Qin Ma's California store, Qin Yuanhong soon opened the Huahuayuan store. .

The scale of the hot pot restaurant has expanded. A store manager needs to take care of both production and the store, which will definitely make him exhausted. Qin Yuanhong's sight came to the new term "corporate management": Please ask a group of industry elites to help me manage the store!

Chongqing Qinma Catering Culture Co., Ltd. was officially established, and "store manager" Qin Yuanhong became the chairman of Qinma Catering. Chairman Qin Yuanhong immediately "expanded" his company:

Recruiting highly educated and highly experienced management talents, including technicians, political engineers, economists, and accountants with professional titles, to enrich his enterprise.

From a small roadside shop, Qin Ma Hotpot has grown rapidly for more than ten years and has now become a hotpot chain empire. Qin Yuanhong, a laid-off worker from a state-owned enterprise, wrote a legendary entrepreneurial story through her own efforts.