Take out your mobile phone and order takeout. You can eat delicious food in half an hour. I believe this is a very familiar experience and has become the only way for many people today. With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, people's lives are getting faster and faster, all kinds of activities are getting richer and richer, and life is getting more and more fulfilling. However, everyone has only 24 hours a day. People's daily life is getting richer and richer, their study and work are getting busier and busier. As a result, they spend a lot of time, and many people even ignore eating. At this time, the role of the take-away industry has been played and loved by the public, so the take-away industry has also risen and developed in an all-round way.

In fact, not only now, but also in every era, eating is essential. When other things hinder eating, people will solve them in time. The rise of the take-away industry is a manifestation of the developed catering industry. The so-called demand affects consumption, that is, the scale and demand are different in different periods. Then the question comes, how did busy people in ancient times solve the problem of eating? In that era when there was no electricity and no mobile phone, could people order takeout? Let's take the Song Dynasty as an example to talk about the takeaway industry!

Many people think that after social development, we are busier than before. We often work overtime to study. As a result, we didn't have time to eat. Coupled with the rapid development of science and technology, the take-away industry came into being. In fact, more than a thousand years ago, the take-away industry developed very well and even became popular. As early as the Warring States period, take-out had already appeared. The take-away service of the citizen class began in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, social stability, economic recovery and development, fierce market competition, market competition appeared. In order to get a large number of customers and compete for customers, the form of hotel support to provide on-site service began to appear.

For example, Wu Cuo, an official in the Tang Dynasty, was supposed to entertain his colleagues after his promotion, but there were 300 to 500 people! When he hurried home to prepare for the party, he found that everything was ready. It turned out that the subordinates immediately went to the hotel to book a banquet after learning that he was appointed. It can be seen that take-away service is very common at this time, and food for three or five hundred people is prepared. By the Song Dynasty, the real express delivery industry had been fully developed. Fan Zhongyan in the Northern Song Dynasty often discussed important things with his colleagues at the post office. He will leave the menu in Beijing in advance, and the restaurant staff will deliver the food in time. Some of the most popular restaurants don't have enough time in hotels, so they gradually become take-away jobs. This may be the earliest takeaway.