The main threats faced by the Chinese food industry:

1. The financial crisis has brought about a decline in consumer confidence, and the demand for tourism and catering has decreased. It is estimated that the consumption of high-end catering will decrease after three years of unemployment

2. The domestic catering market is increasingly diversified, and the proportion of dinner turnover above designated size will further decline.

3. The fierce competition will be maintained in the next five years, from simple price competition and product quality competition to product and enterprise brand competition and cultural taste competition.

4. The competition between Chinese and foreign catering enterprises has intensified. Compared with foreign catering, there is a big gap between domestic catering enterprises in hardware and software, especially in management and service. Foreign fast food dominates the catering competition pattern in China.

5. Financing expansion has become a new development mode of domestic catering industry. It is expected that more catering enterprises will seek listing after the economic recovery in the next three years.

6. The catering industry has entered the era of "meager profit" in an all-round way, and the traditional management and operation mode has encountered severe challenges, which requires the transformation to refined, streamlined and chain-like large-scale operation.

7. laws and regulations are lagging behind. China's catering industry lacks planning guidance, has not yet established national regulations applicable to the catering industry, lacks systematic and strict market access system and mandatory standards, and the standards of catering enterprises are uneven, with incomplete content, low technical knowledge and lack of national unity.

8. The catering structure is unbalanced. Due to intensified competition and rising operating costs, the development of popular catering in some areas is very uneven. High-end catering in the industry has a strong momentum, and middle and low-end catering services are obviously insufficient.

9. The market order needs to be standardized. The catering industry lacks unified industry law enforcement, the market order is not standardized, the catering environment is unsanitary, and food safety problems occur from time to time, which affects normal and orderly competition, and market management and industry management cannot keep up with the development of the situation.

11. With the normal operation and cross-regional development of enterprises, business tax will increase, which will have an important impact on the profits of enterprises

11. The supply of catering talents is insufficient. Food and beverage education and scientific research lag behind, there are no undergraduate cooking colleges in China, and the training and professional training of catering professional managers lag behind. The quality of industry personnel is not high, and there is a lack of senior management talents and cooking technical talents. The rising labor price and the large labor mobility in the Chinese dinner industry make it difficult for the Chinese dinner industry to obtain and retain outstanding talents

12. The certification of chefs is chaotic, and the certification of famous teachers and masters is out of order, resulting in the phenomenon of spending money to buy certificates. Foreign-funded catering enterprises attract talents in Chinese food technology, management, service and culture with various preferential conditions, which leads to a large loss of talents in Chinese food enterprises.