With his abilities enhanced, Zhang Yang really could spot many problems he had never noticed before.
He thoroughly sorted through every part of the hotel, inside and out, top to bottom.
Only then could the entire InterContinental Garden Hotel be considered completely renewed, fully prepared to welcome the upcoming Wealth Summit.
However, the InterContinental Garden Hotel ultimately had limited potential.
Even if it was perfected, it could only go so far.
After reviewing the businesses under his name, Zhang Yang found that Soup King Hotpot alone had considerable potential.
In China's hotpot market, one particular chain stood head and shoulders above the rest.
Below that chain, competitors flourished across various niche segments. Soup King Hotpot was neither outstanding nor disappointing in its own segment, focusing on nourishing soup bases—but it seemed possible to sharpen that focus even further.
Although he was in Hangzhou, Zhang Yang did not waste any time. He held remote meetings with Soup King Hotpot's management for several days straight.
In the end, they settled on Soup King Hotpot's development strategy.
They would focus on product-first principles, refining their products and taking them to the utmost extreme. As for service, it only needed to be the icing on the cake.
Under the core philosophy of product-first principles, Zhang Yang required Soup King Hotpot to further cut redundant dishes, retaining only its core offerings.
For the soup bases, they would promote a wild mushroom soup base, with the slogan emphasizing that it was "a hotpot base you can drink." As for the signature wild mushrooms, every stage—from ingredient selection to processing and final delivery to the central kitchen—had to undergo rigorous quality checks.
Moreover, every part of that process had to be heavily promoted in-store as a key selling point, until it was firmly ingrained in customers' minds.