Haidilao
海底捞
Haidilao is a Chinese hot-pot restaurant chain that has expanded into retail-adjacent products and restaurant automation. Per a 2018 Frees Fund column, it launched self-heating instant hot pots—packaged meals that replicate the in-restaurant experience at home . More recently, Yunqi Capital reported that Keenon Robotics powered Haidilao's first "smart restaurant," which as of early 2025 still operated eight of the vendor's latest-generation service robots; Keenon also cited Haidilao as its first major customer after landing a large robot order . The elsewhere corpus does not cover Haidilao's founding, scale, or ownership structure.
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