Hai Di Lao 海底捞 from a Cook's perspective
Hai Di lao It is a stock that make up more than half of my portfolio, I’ll discuss why I’m interested in it. I will break them down to few points. Most of the information in this article is from the IPO prospectus. For the info that is not from the prospectus I would normally start the statements with the words like “In my opinion” or “I think”. Business Moat As mentioned in their prospectus, their advantage versus other hot pot restaurant would be their unique management structure. What it does is to connect the incentives among all the employees effectively and doing it in a scalable way(prospectus can explain better with charts) To do this effectively you will need a good brand power in order to ramp up customer fast in newly open restaurant, experience management, and good supply chain. They had countless copy cats for many years but none of them causes a threat. Good service comes only with good pay check. A good “culture” without good economic compensation and career