The kitchen stays in your own space. No customers wandering in to poke around.
FW26 HOTPOT COLLECTION · GARAGE EDITION
Your garagecan be aMeiMei.
No storefront? You’ve got a food cart.
No walk-ins. The whole street knows you.
No prices thrown around online. Tell us where you’d open and who’s cooking with you, then we run the real numbers.
HOTPOT
01 · NOT A CLOUD KITCHEN
Home is the base.
The cart is the storefront.
The cart faces the street. Switch on the sign and the neighbors know there’s hotpot here.
Customers scan to pay with iCHEF and pick up outside. Nobody steps into the kitchen.
Neighborhood word of mouth and calls from fans slowly grow into orders no delivery app takes a cut of.
02 · SAME HOTPOT, DIFFERENT LIFE
Same hotpot,
worlds apart.
CompareTraditional hotpot restaurantMeiMei
Fit-outBuild out an entire restaurant firstGarage kitchen + street-facing cart
RentThe rent meter runs every single daySpace you already have comes first
Front of houseSeating, bussing, refills, checkoutCustomers never enter the kitchen
Staff5–8 peopleStandard crew of 2
How you earnTable turnover, location and foot trafficA data analytics team finds the people who’ll order MeiMei.
Complaints / ads / PRYou field it, figure it out and carry it aloneHQ handles it with you
No orders?Empty dining room, still staffedSit tight till the next order. MeiMei scrolls her phone too
03 · ONE STOVE, ONE STATION
One can cook.
Don’t solo a rush.
One person runs the stove, the other packs orders at the pass. Lose the packer and your peak-hour acceptance rate drops, and your visibility on the delivery apps drops with it. That’s why the standard crew is two.
Couples, parent-and-kid teams, friends and family all work. Students, people returning to work, or young folks fine with long hours at an easy pace: let’s talk too.
04 · YOU JUST COOK THE POT
All the noisy stuff?
HQ’s on it too.
Platform adminPlatform biddingAdsDataPRComplaints
You mind the flame. We handle the stuff that makes your head smoke. Everyone does their own job right, so nothing actually goes up in smoke.
05 · THE GEAR
Not much gear,
and it all feels right on day one.
- Commercial fridge
- Stoves
- HQ-built food cart
- Small hardware
HQ builds every cart, so every location wears the same MeiMei face.
06 · FIRST DROP
SEED PARTNERS
First three slots.
This round, we’re looking for three teams who want to make garage hotpot work with us. Once the first three are in, later terms may change.
Being a good fit beats being first. The card is shiny. Keep your head clear anyway.
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07 · BY THE BOOK
Cooking on a side street
doesn’t mean cutting corners.
Registered companyFood business registration100% invoiced
Small space, big-restaurant rules.
08 · WHO THIS ISN’T FOR
Red flags first,
so no one suffers.
- You want to greet customers, not work the kitchen.
- You want passive income without ever touching the stove.
- You want to rewrite the recipes and cook up a whole other universe.
- You plan to work the rush alone to prove you’ve mastered the Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu.
09 · HOW IT GOES
Talk first,
then get serious.
- 01Add our official LINE
Tell us where you are and who’s in it with you.
- 0230-minute call
We hold the dream up against real life.
- 03Site visit, arranged by us
See the real order rhythm up close. We pick the location.
- 04Numbers for your location, crew and budget
Different setup, different math.
- 05If it’s a fit, our team walks you through the deal privately
This public page only explains how the work runs. No wild promises online.
10 · LET’S TALK HOTPOT
You keep it real.
We listen. Really.
Want to talk about where you’d open and who’s cooking with you? Find us on our official LINE. Put everything on the table first, then we run the numbers together.
LINE @meimeihotpot