A 2014 report on the hotpot chain Haidilao described how it looks after its staff. “Every month, the company sends part of the bonus to the parents, back home, of managers and outstanding employees.” The staff dormitories were described as “regular apartments, with air conditioning, heating and internet,” about twenty minutes’ walk from work. The founder Zhang Yong set up a boarding school in Jianyang, Sichuan, for employees’ children.
Since 2005, Haidilao has paid education subsidies to employees’ children. A 2024 report said that its scholarship had gone to 1,443 children of employees over four years, a total of 13.8 million yuan.