China restaurant owner gifts two employees BMWs worth Rs 43 lakh each

For many employees, a good performance review might mean a bonus, a salary hike or a promotion. But two workers at a restaurant chain in China received a reward few would expect from their employer: brand-new BMW cars, paid for in full by their boss. The unusual gift came from Ma Yanli, who owns a beef hotpot restaurant chain headquartered in Jiaozuo, in central China’s Henan province. According to the *South China Morning Post*, Ma decided to gift the cars after seeing her employees travel to work on electric scooters in harsh weather. The experience made her think about how differently she and her staff travelled to work, eventually inspiring her to do something about it.A cold morning that led to an unexpected decisionMa had reportedly been thinking about her employees’ daily commutes since the previous winter.