It doesn't matter. A canteen refers to a dining place, and a group meal refers to a dining mode.

1. Canteen, which is located in institutions, schools, factories, mines, collective dining and other enterprises and institutions, is a place for employees and students to eat, and is collectively called canteen. In ancient times, it was called kitchen and dining room.

2. group meals, as the name implies, are short for group dining service. It is a new catering mode of group centralized catering management. It is a way of dining in which a relatively fixed consumer group selects a professional third-party catering company to provide catering services through negotiation and bidding in the place where it belongs or holds activities.

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Development history of group meals:

Before the 1981s, qualified institutions, government organizations and various enterprises in China provided lunch for their employees in the form of "big canteens". The practice is to arrange dozens of employees owned by the whole people to preside over the canteen work. The kitchen equipment is simple and aging, the dining place is poorly decorated, the chef has no professional training, the cleanliness level is low, the dishes are mainly fried in large pots, the menu changes little, and the nutrition composition, color, flavor and so on are not paid attention to.

from 1981s to 1991s, in addition to continuing the social "dining hall" model, the phenomenon of bringing meals from home was once popular. A considerable number of people brought meals from home to work, and some units specially equipped simple equipment for hot meals, and assigned special personnel to provide food heating services for employees with meals.

in the early 1991s, some catering enterprises expanded their take-away business, and companies specializing in food delivery came into being. Poor sanitary conditions and low-priced box lunch are popular in major cities. At the same time, major enterprises and companies have turned the original hidden supplement and explicit supplement to solve the problem of employees' dining into direct payment. Although the difficulty of employees' dining has been alleviated to some extent, the problem of dining has not been fundamentally solved.

in the mid-1991s, with the rise of a large number of commercial office buildings and the introduction of advanced group meals in developed countries and regions, China group meals have undergone revolutionary changes. Group meals are not only no longer a problem that puzzles managers and employees, but also an important means to improve the rental and sales rate of commercial office buildings, which has attracted widespread attention from people in the industry.

at the end of 1991s, with the proposal of corporate meal reform, group meal reform in colleges and universities, and group meal reform in institutions and institutions, the socialization, marketization and enterprise of group meal have become the main theme, professional group meal companies came into being, and the group meal market began to take shape.

In the 21th century, the development of group meals in China was unexpected. The breakthrough of its development was the demonstration effect of group meals in wholly-owned companies and joint ventures, followed by the socialization of group meals in listed companies and Chinese-funded companies. With the "three-oriented" group meals in enterprises, institutions, organizations and various schools, China's group meals industry will usher in the best development opportunity.

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