What is a central kitchen?
Ordinary people's homes do not have a central kitchen, which generally exists in chain catering enterprises. We can simply understand it as a food processing center or a catering distribution center. Its main task is to make and process raw materials into semi-finished products or finished products according to the menu, and then distribute them to chain stores for secondary heating and sales combination and then sell them to customers, or directly process them into finished products and sales combination and then directly distribute them to customers.
What is Central Kitchen II?
For merchants, it is of great significance to use the central kitchen to process and distribute food, and its good benefits are mainly reflected in three aspects: 1. First, it can overcome the problem of high production cost and make it possible to reduce costs on a large scale; Secondly, the uniformity of finished products in quality and taste is more obvious, and such fast food distribution is closer to standardization in concept; 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".
What are the functions of the central kitchen?
As can be seen from the above, the central kitchen is a very good production and operation mode for enterprises, so what is its main function? The central kitchen mainly has the following functions:
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.
What are the functions of the central kitchen?
As we have learned above, the central kitchen has the functions of unified procurement, production and inspection, which is only a part of its functions. In addition, it has the following functions:
4. Unified packaging function: in the central kitchen, according to the requirements of the same packaging image of chain enterprises, all kinds of finished products or semi-finished products are packaged to a certain extent.
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.