Split meals appeared in China as early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. However, its distinguishing feature is the manifestation of hierarchical status, a kind of ritual system. The banquet presents an aura that better emphasizes the majesty of the princes and lords. The Zhouli contains: "the method of setting up the seat, the first set up all say feast, after the addition of the seat. Feast long seat short, the feast spread in the lower, the seat in the upper, for people to sit by."
This is for the feast specifications standards. 2003 "SARS" epidemic, the China Hotel Association specifically formulated "catering industry dining facilities conditions and service specifications", but with the end of the "SARS" epidemic, dining system has gradually been Left behind. The current epidemic, meal portioning has become a buzzword again.
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Split-meal system will increase the cost of the restaurant, and some of the specialties should not be packed. dishes should not be split. A number of heads of catering enterprises, said the chef or waiter to share meals, will inevitably increase the cost of manpower and material resources, and some need to carve, plating and other special skills of the dishes need to ensure the integrity of the serving. The new Crown pneumonia outbreak has made more and more people aware of the health risks of sharing meals.
The outbreak has also become an opportunity to promote meal portioning and enhance "civilization on the tip of the tongue". The catering industry may usher in a watershed, the World Federation of Chinese Cuisine and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Business Industry Committee to organize the drafting of the "Chinese food system, public chopsticks system, double chopsticks system service norms" group standard. Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce took the lead in the country to organize the development and release of the "catering industry, separate meal system design and implementation guide".
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