The Henan Hu spicy soup shop was accused, and the merchants removed the words "Xiaoyao Town" overnight. Various stores expressed fear of being accused, so they had no choice but to demolish the three characters "Xiaoyao Town" overnight, or replace "town" with other characters; some said that the behavior of the Xiaoyao Town Hu Spicy Soup Association was to "remove mills, kill donkeys, and cut leeks" , Knock on bamboo poles? Some people say that even without the words "Xiaoyao Town", their business will still not deteriorate. Let's take a look, what's going on?

1. Afraid of becoming a defendant, they removed or changed the characters overnight

More than 50 Hu spicy soup restaurants in Jiaozuo, Henan Province became defendants because their signboards used the three characters "Xiaoyao Town" , Xiaoyao Town Hu Hot Soup Association respectively requested compensation ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 yuan from them, or paid a membership fee of 1,000 yuan per year to continue using it. Although many of them were not prosecuted, they took the initiative to demolish the words "Xiaoyao Town" overnight or changed the word "Zhen" to "Zhen" for fear of becoming defendants. It seems that even if these stores don't want these three words, they are not willing to pay the membership fee. It turned out that in 2003, the Xiaoyao Town Hu Hot Soup Association registered the "Xiaoyao Town" trademark with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce as a collective entity.

2. What does the Xiaoyao Town Hu Hot Soup Association do? Remove mills and kill donkeys, cut leeks, and break bamboo poles?

In the past ten years from 2003 to 2021, Xiaoyao Town’s Hot and spicy soup restaurants are popping up everywhere, and they are somewhat famous. They have been in business for such a long time and have been using this sign. They never thought that one day it would be infringed. They all believed that the Xiaoyao Town Hu Hot Soup Association used them to make their brand name bigger and more famous, and when it became valuable, they began to ban them from using this brand. They all said that the behavior of the Xiaoyao Town Hu Hot Soup Association was to "kill donkeys, cut leeks, and knock bamboo poles".

3. Even without the words "Xiaoyao Town", their business will still not get worse

Many stores said that they have been operating for so many years because of the taste. Consumption in Haolai stores. Even if their signs are not used, they will not be affected.

In short, through this incident, the "Xiaoyao Town" spicy soup brand has spread to the ears of the majority of netizens. However, many netizens also expressed that they thought it was unethical for the association to do this.