Abstract: At present, many people's lifestyles are changing. You can order takeout when you eat, and you can also place an order with the app when you buy food. Many people have a fast pace of life and have no time to cook or are too lazy to cook. Precast dishes also seem to usher in the spring of the industry. Prefabricated dishes may be the next outlet of the catering industry. So what's the difference between prepared dishes and food distribution? What are the differences between prepared dishes and food distribution? Firstly, the forms are different, secondly, the processing and production sites are different, and finally, the customer groups are different. Let's take a closer look at the related contents of prefabricated dishes. First, the difference between prepared food and food distribution

1. Different forms

What is prepared food? That is, meat and vegetables are used as raw materials, supplemented by seasonings, and processed into finished or semi-finished food. According to the degree of processing, prefabricated dishes can be divided into four categories: ready-to-eat food, hot food, cooked food and prepared food. Food distribution is the distribution of raw materials, which involves simple rough machining; The distribution company sorts, processes, divides, packs and assembles the ingredients, and delivers the ingredients to the designated place.

2. After the processing and production sites are different

, the prefabricated dishes are mainly produced by the central kitchen or food processing enterprises, which involves automatic production, mechanized production, large-scale production and industrial production; Different enterprises will also have their own secret ingredients in the production of semi-finished products and finished products. The distribution of ingredients mainly involves the sorting of ingredients, without the need for a central kitchen or processing production line.

3. Different customer groups

The other difference is that their customers are different. The general service customers of food distribution are enterprises, hospitals, school canteens or hotel chain restaurants, which belong to B-end customers. However, the pre-cooked dishes used to focus on B-end customers, but under the influence of the epidemic, the development of the catering industry was affected, and C-end customers ushered in an accelerated stage.

second, the difference between prefabricated dishes, instant dishes, semi-finished dishes and clean dishes

1. Prefabricated dishes are developed for banquet dishes and hotel specialty dishes, that is, some chefs analyze the raw materials of dishes through food industry methods, and then concentrate on production in a modern standardized central kitchen. After frozen storage, other steps are simplified, and consumers can heat them in a microwave oven when they want to eat?

2. Instant dishes and semi-finished dishes are essentially the same, only with different names. It is a simple version of prefabricated dishes, which does not need frying and heating. All the fresh raw materials are matched in proportion, and with the package, this is more suitable for ordinary consumers, because it is cleaner and more hygienic, and the price will be more close to the people.

3. Cleaning vegetables is very simple, that is, washing and cutting vegetables, but it is definitely more expensive than ordinary vegetables because it involves personnel processing. Clean vegetables can be divided into poultry, pork, beef, sheep and aquatic products. Only through centralized processing to change the physical shape of raw materials, such as slicing, dicing, shredding, cutting strips, etc., without further processing procedures such as seasoning and pickling, it is usually stored in cold storage, which has a short preservation time. It leaves more room for processors to prepare and cook, and the terminals that have higher requirements on the uniqueness and differentiation of taste have higher usage of clean vegetables, but the differentiation degree of clean vegetables is low and the added value of products is low.