Division of the types of Chinese catering 1.Classification according to the way of service
(1) Table service restaurant. This is the most common type of restaurant we see, which can be Chinese or Western. After the customer is seated, the waiter orders, serves and clears the table, and its most obvious feature is that the waiter provides table service. Generally speaking, where the decoration is gorgeous, elegant service, fine food, comfortable environment of the restaurant to provide table service, belong to the table service restaurant, but not all table service restaurant is a high-grade restaurant.
(2) cafeteria. As the name implies, the buffet restaurant is with a self-help nature, customers order items and beverages, their own food served to the table, the restaurant provides only limited services. Some are processed by the customers themselves, such as toast and English muffins in Western food, hot pot and barbecue in Chinese food.
Western fast food restaurants currently popular in China, such as McDonald's, KFC, etc., are self-service restaurants, which are also quite popular with customers.
(3) Counter service restaurant. In this type of restaurant, customers sit at the counter, and dishes are served directly to customers by waiters or chefs. Just as the customer can see the bartender mixing and pouring drinks at the bar, the customer can also enjoy the chef's performance. Because this type of restaurant is served very quickly, it is also known as a ? Quick and Simple Restaurant? Currently more popular in China, Japanese-style teppanyaki is this type.
2. Divided according to the style of dishes
In accordance with the style of dishes, catering, Chinese food and Western food. Chinese food is characterized by the restaurant to provide Chinese dishes, the use of Chinese furniture, tableware, tea sets and provide Chinese service, guests eat in the Chinese way. Chinese food has a long history, color and flavor, the Chinese way of eating widely popular. Western food is a general term for the cuisine of Europe and the United States. Western food is characterized by the provision of Western dishes, the use of Western-style furniture, tableware and provide Western-style services, with Westerners accustomed to the way to eat. Western-style dishes include French, Russian, Italian, Japanese and other ethnic flavors.
The role of Chinese dining culture As the saying goes ? People eat for heaven? Diet is one of the important material conditions for human survival. Tourists eat and rest in tourism activities, is the guarantee that tourism can continue.
Catering around the world due to food materials, cooking methods, eating habits and other differences, the formation of a colorful world food culture. Tourists through the taste of exotic flavors of delicious food, to appreciate the exotic food culture, not only to meet the guests of the most basic physiological needs, but also from its color, aroma, taste, shape, instrument on the art of infection, so as to get the spiritual enjoyment, but also to make the Chinese and Western catering culture has been exchanged and development. Therefore, catering is not only a material guarantee for travelers to go out and travel, but also one of the important conditions for the development of the world tourism industry.
The classification of catering industry in Europe and the United States and the most commonly used catering classification in Europe and the United States is based on the revised method of the British SIC in 1980. The classification divides the catering industry into two categories: commercial type and non-commercial type. Commercial-type catering is profit-oriented. Due to the different clientele, commercial catering can be further categorized into general market and specific market. Specific market refers to the source of service is limited to a certain class or only in a particular area of activity, such as transportation industry attached to the catering organization and private club catering services; general market catering industry, there is no significant difference in the characteristics of the source of customers, as long as the customer is willing to spend money here, catering services, so the average eater is the largest consumer group of this type.
1. Transportation industry catering
refers to the establishment of the transportation hub area or transfer station within the catering, mainly highway, railroad, aviation and shipping and other four kinds of transportation industry, the purpose is to provide food and beverage services for travelers at a particular time. Railroad restaurants and airport restaurants fall into this category.
2. Clubs
Clubs mainly refer to the provision of meals to certain groups formed as a result of participation in political parties, sports or other social activities. Most clubs require membership and have strict rules about service. Therefore, generally speaking, the food service in clubs is of a certain standard. Civil Servants Home:
3. General Restaurant
Whether it is self-service or full table service, from small one-person stores to luxury hotels, and from light meals to fine dining, general restaurants are the most common. General restaurants can be subdivided into two types: gourmet restaurants and family restaurants.
(1) Gourmet restaurants. Gourmet restaurants are more formal restaurants that serve traditional dishes that are small in variety, but refined, distinctive, and focused on the quality of the food. These fine dining restaurants are characterized by a high level of service and a deliberately elegant dining atmosphere.
(2) family restaurant. This type of restaurant atmosphere and service staff so that customers have a warm feeling of dining at home, its dishes for the general home-cooked food, the menu is often new, is an affordable type of popular restaurants.