One, the catering company refers to enterprises, hospitals, schools, hotels, etc. according to the need to contract the dining hall to a professional catering company to manage (care), and then choose the catering company to provide a variety of dishes to eat.
Two, catering companies were first developed in Hangzhou, China in the 13th century. At that time, they were called restaurants. Since Hangzhou was the cultural and economic center of the Song Dynasty, with a population of more than one million, there were many teahouses and taverns for tourists, and later on, restaurants were developed to serve both tourists and locals.
Three, there was already a wide variety of restaurants offering different cuisines. The first modern restaurant in the West (where customers were seated at different tables, chose from a menu, and had designated hours) was the Grand Tavernede Londres, which opened in 1782.
4. After the French Revolution in 1789, the French Catering Guild was dissolved, and the aristocracy fled, leaving behind a large number of skilled servants and a large influx of people from the different provinces of France to serve the local population. A large number of people from different provinces of France flocked to Paris have dietary needs, so the catering company opened in Paris as a spring, gradually formed the French people out of the dining tradition, and make French cooking so popular and advanced.
Fifth, the catering industry in the service utility intangible, it is different from fruits, vegetables and other tangible products, the public from the color, size, shape and so on can be judged by its quality. Catering services can only be purchased through the dining guests, consumption, enjoy the service after the first-hand feeling to evaluate its good or bad.
Sixth, the difference between the catering service on the one hand is that the catering service is by the catering sector staff through manual labor to complete, and each staff due to age, gender, personality, quality and literacy and other aspects of the different, they provide guests with catering services are not the same, on the other hand, the same waiter on different occasions, different times, or face different guests, their service attitude and service mode will also be different. service attitude and service mode will also have some differences.
Seven, general industrial and agricultural products are produced, most of them have to go through a number of circulation links to reach the hands of consumers. If the product does not pass the quality inspection before leaving the factory, you can rework, in the store you think unsatisfactory goods can not go to ask for, and catering products are different. Its production, sales, consumption is almost synchronized, and thus between producers and consumers is face to face service, face to face consumption.