China has been known as the "Kingdom of Cooking", and the development of the chef industry can be said to be the first. In 2002, the total number of chefs in China has exceeded 10 million. 2002 to 2011, China's catering industry for ten consecutive years at a rate of more than 16% to achieve faster growth. National Bureau of Statistics data show that in recent years, the annual retail sales of China's catering industry has achieved a growth of 200 billion yuan, such a high scale of growth, not only explains China's economic development is good, but also explains the growth potential of China's catering industry and good prospects. In the future, the catering industry will continue to develop at a high rate.

With the rapid development of China's catering industry, the demand for culinary talent will reach an unprecedented scale. It is reported that the next five years, the culinary industry, the demand for talent to maintain in the 10 million or so, a huge amount of talent gap is both the bottleneck in the development of the catering industry, but also in the culinary industry in terms of employment compared to other industries have a significant advantage.

At the same time, the chef industry employment environment is good, the hotel's modern equipment allows chefs to go to work easily and happily off, do not have to stay up late, do not have to engage in dirty work, there is no danger of climbing high, there is no contact with machinery full of grease stains of the trouble, there is no hard to travel around, there is no long term radiation brought about by occupational diseases of low-seat when a lot of occupations less than 50 years old have to be at home to rest and recuperate from the illness, the 60-year-old chef can still be used. 60-year-old chef can still reign supreme in the culinary world.

Two, entrepreneurial advantage

Entrepreneurship is the dream of many young people, but only a dream. Due to the lack of a good platform, lack of experience and opportunities, many people's entrepreneurial dreams fade with age, and ultimately succumbed to reality.

Compared with the current social entrepreneurial difficulties, the culinary industry has a unique advantage. Careful people found that walking in the city streets and alleys, everywhere you can see restaurants, restaurants, forests are always full of customers. As we all know, the catering industry entrepreneurial threshold is low, flexible investment, low risk, fast turnover of funds, so, in the catering industry business has become a lot of people to realize the entrepreneurial dream of the way.

Three, high pay advantage

"Wages" has become a popular word in the current society, the society from time to time will appear related to the news of the wages, this kind of thing to the construction sites and factories most frequently. At a time when many industries are still experiencing wage arrears, the chef industry has been listed as one of the top ten highest-paying professions, making many people envious.

In coastal areas, such as Guangzhou, the chef's monthly salary is roughly around 8,000, the excellent chef often earns more than 10,000 per month, ranging from 10,000 to 20,000, and the executive chef of a large hotel's annual salary has even reached 200,000 to millions. In the less economically developed provinces in the mainland, the chef's salary compared to other industries still has a great advantage, the chef's monthly salary in Chengdu is basically around 5,000 yuan, the external senior chef's salary is even higher.

The New York Daily News has reported that Sichuan cuisine is popular but chefs are hard to find, and $50,000 a year is too much to hire. The same is true of the domestic catering market of Sichuan cuisine, there is a "lack of talent" dilemma, Chengdu's major catering industry also frequently show high-paying recruitment ads. Chef has become a veritable high-paying career.

Four, the age advantage

At present, many industries in society due to industry characteristics determined by the age limit, in terms of industry attributes, the better learning time period is concentrated in the age of 14 years old to 25 years old, for example, the education industry; at the same time, there are also many industries work in the age of roughly the stage of the young people, such as hairdressing, flight attendants, tour guides, modeling, secretarial, public relations and so on, that is, it is often referred to as the The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on your own.

Youth is easy to age, looks no longer, many people in the industry will have such a sigh. Eat "youth meal" industry is squandered age, physical strength and energy, in time before the youth faded, it is necessary to change course and find another way out.

At present, society is full of "29 years old limit", "35 years old workplace life and death line" argument. Compared with many industries, the culinary industry can be regarded as exclusive, chef, not only in the learning stage without age limit, and chef is a can work to the old profession, in the work stage, the chef will be more charismatic because of the age of the growth. From time to time, we can see some 50, 60 years old around the famous chef, but it is difficult to see 50-year-old journalists, 60-year-old advertising people.

Fifth, the educational advantages

Culinary education originated earlier, the old society period of teaching by word and example type of characteristics are still retained in the culinary education, culinary education focuses on the practical operation and hands-on training, less restriction on other aspects of the students. Nowadays, culinary education has formed an educational pattern with Sichuan cuisine as the main cuisine, and eight major cuisines such as Sichuan, Cantonese and Lu cuisine forming their own system. Compared with other industries with few characteristics of mass education, culinary education specialization is easier for students to become professionals in the field.

Secondly, culinary education has a low starting point, easy to learn. In the past, people's education level is low, but a large number of outstanding chefs, chefs, visible learning to cook does not require too much knowledge and cultural level, today, people's education level greatly enhanced, learning to cook will be more easy and convenient.

In addition, the government's support is also a major advantage of learning to cook, from 2002 onwards, the country reintroduced the strategy of science and education to develop the country, and increase investment in vocational education and support. The rise of the industry caused by the employment of the situation, November 8, 2011, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance officially issued "on the implementation of vocational colleges and universities to improve the quality of the views of the program", marking the major projects covering the construction of vocational education teachers cooking full start. Compared with learning other professions, learning to cook means learning faster and better.