In the cold winter, everyone likes to have a hot pot meal, which is exciting and warm. Among the current domestic hot pot industries, the more famous ones include Guo Daxia Hot Pot, Banu Hot Pot and Haidilao Hot Pot. These businesses have their own unique styles in their business methods and menu concepts.
For Banu Hot Pot, many people should have seen its advertisement, and that sentence: Service is not our specialty, hairy tripe and mushroom soup are. This sentence very clearly shows that Banu Maodu Hot Pot is genuine and confident in the ingredients.
As for Haidilao Hotpot, although it does not have a particularly distinctive logo or slogan. However, the nationwide scale of Haidilao industry and the most considerate service are unmatched by other hot pot industries. When dining in Haidilao Hot Pot, you can not only enjoy birthday service, but also other personalized human services. All the service supplies you can think of and the ones you can't think of are available. The most high-end and considerate service is also an important factor for Haidilao Hotpot to gain a foothold in the hotpot industry and continue to be popular.
However, recently there have been comments on the Internet that Haidilao copied Banu Hotpot. The reason is that when a netizen was dining in Haidilao Hotpot, he discovered that there were 5 types of dish placement styles and the height of the dish names. It imitates the form of Banu hot pot. In fact, the soybean sprouts, fried dough sticks and duck blood are exactly the same as the presentation and appearance of Banu hot pot. As soon as this comment came out, netizens rushed to discuss: "That is just copying other people's plating methods. It is really insincere and disappointing old customers." ?
Facing heated discussions among netizens, Maodu Hotpot quickly posted on Weibo the next day, saying that "products are the foundation of a catering company" and publicly displayed the presentation of these five dishes. and founding time, in fact, it emphasizes the originality and effectiveness of its dishes.
Whether Haidilao’s arrangement of dishes is considered plagiarism or not depends on whether Banu Hotpot has applied for the appearance patent of the dishes. However, Banu Hotpot has not applied for it, so from an essential level , although there are similarities, it is not considered plagiarism.