The difficulty of the catering industry lies in the operation, from the customer into the store after consumption there will be a lot of touch points. From the door to welcome, open the stage, ordering, serving, cashier, marketing, etc., and, dining environment, decoration style, branding, etc. is equally important.

The difference with other industries is that the catering industry has its own distinctive industry characteristics, the operation of the links are many and varied, catering cost leakage points, management is difficult.

High variable cost rate, resulting in catering internal control management is difficult, the characteristics of the management requirements, at the same time, catering business information technology foundation is weak, hardware and software equipment, as well as the quality of practitioners and so on are good and bad, all of these factors on the catering industry's supply chain management puts forward a high demand.