Nanjing Youmanyi tells you:

Group meal definition

Successful experience in developed countries has shown that large industrial enterprises, commercial organizations, government agencies and other associations of the staff catering, primary and secondary schools and student meals, as well as transportation, public **** office buildings, exhibitions and catering and social delivery of meals, etc., has become an important part of the catering industry. has become an important part of the catering industry. These markets have a *** with the same characteristics, that is, its customers are not mainly store consumption, is in the form of groups, mainly door-to-door service, catering enterprises in the production and sale of food in bulk form, through bidding, comparison and negotiation to obtain the dietary franchise, the enterprise is in fact in a monopoly, it is very easy to form a large-scale operation, which is what we call the group meal or group meal, referred to as the Group meals.　The group meal is called group feeding or group meal for short. [1]?

Brought about by the huge demand for working meals, "group meals" market large enterprises, organizations and units of the cafeteria outsourcing, as the catering market a hot gold, has begun to attract the attention of the industry. At the same time, the current group meal industry, strong administrative intervention, the lack of perfect market rules of the game and other shortcomings, but also increasingly surfaced.

Industry experts pointed out that China's group meal market opportunities are huge, only to improve the rules of the transaction, hard access system and bidding rational supervision, in order to promote the group meal really socialized, market-oriented, entrepreneurial.

Stage of development

Reviewing the course of China's group meals, can be summarized in the following five stages:

1, before the 80s, China's conditional institutions, organizations, all kinds of enterprises are in the form of "cafeteria Provide lunch for employees. The practice is to arrange dozens of national ownership staff to preside over the cafeteria work, kitchen equipment is simple and aging, dining places are poorly decorated, the chef is not professionally trained, the level of cleanliness is low, the dishes to the main pot of rice, the menu changes less and do not pay attention to the nutritional composition.

2, 80's to 90's, in addition to the continuation of the social "cafeteria" mode, the phenomenon of bringing food from home was once popular, a considerable portion of the people from home to bring food to the unit, some of the units for this purpose is also equipped with a hot meal of simple equipment, and with special people to provide heating services for the employees with meals. the early 90's, some catering enterprises to expand the takeaway business, some catering enterprises to expand the takeaway business. Some catering enterprises to expand the take-away business, specializing in food delivery companies also came into being. Poor hygiene and low-priced boxed meals became popular in major cities. At the same time, the major enterprises and companies to solve the original secret subsidies for employees to eat, explicit subsidies into direct payment, although to a certain extent to alleviate the difficulties of employees to eat, but the problem of dining has not been fundamentally resolved.

3, the mid-1990s, with the rise of a large number of commercial office buildings and developed countries, developed regions of advanced group meal concepts imported, China's group meals have revolutionized the change. Group meals not only no longer become a problem for managers and employees, but also become an important means of supporting the functions of commercial office buildings and improve the rental and sales rates, by the industry's general concern.

4, the end of the 90s, with the company's corporate meal reform, group meal reform in colleges and universities, group meal reform in institutions, group meal socialization, marketization, entrepreneurship has become the main theme of the professional group meal company came into being, the group meal market began to take shape.

5, 21st century, the development of China's group meals is unexpected, the breakthrough in its development is a wholly-owned companies, joint venture companies, group meals demonstration effect, followed by listed companies, Chinese companies, the socialization of group meals. With enterprises, institutions, organizations, groups, colleges and universities, secondary schools, elementary school ...... group meals "three", China's group meals industry will usher in the best time for development.

March 30, 2011, hosted by the China Cuisine Association, China Cuisine Association Fast Food Professional Committee, Guangdong Food Service Industry Association, Guangdong Food Institute Group Meal Professional Committee *** with the organizer of the 2011 China Group Meal Conference was held in Guangzhou.? [1]?