Yuxiang central kitchen has three advantages: first, it can overcome the problem of high production cost of ice cream in E ice station, making it possible to reduce the cost on a large scale; The second is to make the uniformity of finished products in quality and taste more obvious, and at the same time facilitate quality monitoring, ensure that every product can meet the national food hygiene standards, and make the concept of fast food distribution closer to the standardization category; Third, we can take the "central big kitchen" as the main investment and technical transformation direction, so that scattered chain stores and small fast food restaurants will no longer divert limited financial and material resources, thus simplifying the operation process of scientific and technological investment and letting "good steel be used in the cutting edge".
Its main functions are:
1. Centralized purchasing function: after the central kitchen summarizes the improved purchasing plans of each chain, it will work out purchasing plans in conjunction with the central warehouse and the market supply department to uniformly purchase raw and auxiliary materials from the market.
2. Production and processing function: the central kitchen should process a large number of purchased raw and auxiliary materials into finished products or semi-finished products according to unified variety specifications and quality requirements.
3. Inspection function: conduct quality inspection on purchased raw and auxiliary materials and finished or semi-finished products, so that raw and auxiliary materials that do not meet the requirements do not enter the production and processing process, and finished or semi-finished products that do not meet the requirements do not leave the central kitchen.
4. Unified packaging function: In the ice station E of the central kitchen, all kinds of finished products or semi-finished products are uniformly packaged to a certain extent according to the requirements of the same packaging image of chain enterprises.
5. Frozen storage function: the central kitchen should be equipped with frozen storage equipment, one is to store raw materials before processing, and the other is to store finished or semi-finished products that have been packaged but not sent to chain stores.
6. Transportation function: the central kitchen should be equipped with transportation vehicles, and the products should be delivered to the chain stores on time and in quantity according to the purchase plans of each store.
7. Information processing function: there is a computer network between the qualified chain stores in the central kitchen, so as to know the purchase plan of each store in time and organize the production and processing of various products according to the plan.