A definition of the difference
Light catering is light catering, refers to a small portion of food, broadly speaking: rice, buns, dumplings, spring rolls, siu mai, fruits, cakes, cookies and other snacks, snacks can be regarded as a kind of light catering, so as the Chinese Guangdong people's "tea", Europeans "afternoon tea" these small amount of food can be enjoyed during the non-meal time can be called light catering. So the small amount of food that can be enjoyed during non-meal time, such as the Cantonese "tea drinking" and the European "afternoon tea", can be called light food.
Heavy catering that is common catering, is through immediate processing and production, commercial sales and service-oriented labor in one, to provide consumers with a variety of alcoholic beverages, food, food production and operation of food production and facilities industry.
Two, the difference between the shops
Light catering store is not big, there is no noisy crowd in the store, only a simple long table, comfortable soft chairs, simple and tasteful eating. It doesn't take much time to finish your meal, and the environment is fresh and elegant.
The restaurant of heavy dining is a large hall with large area and complete equipment and facilities. It can be used as a place for large-scale meals, wine banquets and tea parties, as well as for large-scale international conferences, large-scale exhibitions and festivals.
Three, the difference between the services
Light catering can be imported, can also be based on local food habits above the improved health of light food, simple but not simple, focusing on diet and health.
Heavy catering can be categorized into different types of service: table service, counter service, self-service, and corporate units.
Four, the difference in cooking methods
Light catering dishes low salt, low sugar, low oil. In the United States, a light meal can be a burger without so much butter cheese fat; in China, a light meal can be a mouth-watering chicken sesame leaf salad with grilled chicken breasts as the main source of protein, sesame leaves with a little bit of tangy spice as the leafy base, sesame oil, crushed peanuts, chili peppers, and spices as the salad topper, or it can be a convenience meal meal.
Heavy dining is the main business of stir-fry, fried rice and other hot food. It will produce a lot of oil smoke garbage and noise pollution and so on. Such as big hotels, hot pot restaurants, traditional Chinese restaurants basically belong to the heavy catering.
Light catering as well as heavy catering difference
The soft and hard catering is mainly to look at the fumes and noise. Tea houses, beverage stores, bakeries basically do not produce fumes and big noise, is light catering. And do stir-fry, hot pot, etc. produce large fumes and noise, it is heavy catering. So SUBWAY sandwiches are considered light catering.
What is light catering/heavy catering
Heavy catering refers to the traditional catering business model, formal fried food, star restaurants, Chinese restaurants and so on. This type of generally belong to the heavy catering, the reason is that heavy catering heavy high rent, high staff wages, high raw materials, etc., at the same time to dine mainly, and only lunch and evening meal. Heavy catering catering brands such as: Wang Shun Ge fish head bubble cake, Jin Ding Xuan, Quanjude too and other catering brands.