Overview

• Huangpu District People’s Court found the 17-year-olds infringed property rights and harmed reputation through “acts of insult.”
• Damages were set at 2.0 million yuan for reputational and operational harm, 130,000 yuan for tableware losses and cleaning, and 70,000 yuan in legal fees.
• The teenagers and their parents must publish public apologies, with privacy protections for the minors, and the parents were deemed to have failed in their duty of guardianship.
• The incident occurred on Feb. 24 in a private room at a Haidilao in Shanghai and was filmed and posted online, with no evidence customers consumed the contaminated broth.
• Haidilao refunded more than 4,000 dine-in orders, replaced all tableware, and deep-cleaned the outlet, but the court ruled its tenfold payments to customers were not chargeable to the defendants.