China's catering industry is a traditional industry booming in the sunrise industry. In recent years, China's catering industry has developed very rapidly, catering turnover for more than 20 consecutive years to achieve double-digit high-speed growth, is expected to maintain more than 18% rate of development in the future, the industry's development prospects, it can be said that China is ushering in a catering industry in the great development of a period of time, the market potential is huge, the outlook is very broad, the long-term development trend is good. The following China eat network for you to introduce the current situation and prospects for the development of China's catering industry, and challenges.

The current situation of the catering industry

With the rapid development of China's national economy, the income level of residents is getting higher and higher, catering consumption demand is increasingly strong, the turnover has been to maintain a strong growth momentum. According to statistics, in the past five years, China's catering industry has been growing at a rate of about 18% per year, which is twice as fast as the development of GDP, and it can be said that the whole catering market is developing well.

At present, tourism catering, home banquets, wedding consumption has become the highlight of the operation, business specialization and market segmentation is more obvious, mass consumption has further become the mainstream of consumption in the catering industry. Catering enterprises to enhance the merger and reorganization between the pace of enterprise restructuring to speed up the pace of foreign expansion and catering group, the chain has become the trend of development.

Currently, China's catering industry development trend is obvious, mainly reflected in the chain management, brand cultivation, technological innovation, management of scientific as the representative of the modern catering enterprises, and gradually replace the traditional food and beverage industry, handmade discretionary production, single-store workshop, man-made experience management type, fast pace to industrialization, grouping, chaining and modernization; mass consumption has become more and more the main consumer market catering The main body; food culture has become a catering brand cultivation and catering enterprises to compete in the core of modern science and technology, scientific management, modern nutritional concepts in the catering industry has become more and more widely used.

From the viewpoint of national policy and social environment, the catering industry has come to the golden period of development, because the catering industry is labor-intensive industry, in solving the labor employment has a very important role. And at present to solve the problem of labor and employment is the main embodiment of all levels of government for the benefit of the people and policy orientation. On the other hand, the catering industry or economic agriculture, aquaculture, forestry and animal husbandry products of the most direct realization of the way, is to solve the problem of three rural areas, increase the income of farmers an important industry, so the state in the tax policy, industrial policy to give a strong inclination.

In terms of the market, China's urbanization accelerated the pace of urbanization, a large number of rural populations gradually urbanization, the original urban population's ability to consume gradually increased due to the large population and China's sustained and rapid economic development, in the "food for the people" cultural background, China has become the world's largest catering market.