Nowadays, with the prosperity of the country and the economic power of the people, the competition in catering has changed from the competition of taste to the multi-dimensional competition of service, marketing and environment. Catering is an old and dynamic industry. As a traditional industry, it does not iterate and change as quickly as the Internet, information technology and other technology industries. Looking back at the restaurant industry, there may not have been a lot of change in the last two or three years, but over the course of a decade, there has been a sea change.

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China has made amazing achievements in the history of human development in the world. In such a historical trend, China's catering industry through thick and thin, in 40 years has gone through more than 100 years of industrial development in Western countries, to achieve leapfrog development, for China's economic, social and cultural development to make outstanding contributions. The catering industry has jumped from a traditional service industry with a scale of 5 billion yuan to a consumer life service industry with an industrial revenue of over 4 trillion yuan, a social and livelihood industry with a working population of over 20 million, and a national cultural undertaking that has inherited Chinese civilization for 5,000 years. We have embarked on the road of catering industry development with Chinese characteristics. Over the past 40 years, Chinese residents' food consumption has transformed from self-service to social service. Residents' demand for socialized catering services continues to grow. The proportion of eating out continues to increase, and per capita expenditure on food consumption has risen sharply.

In the process of reform and opening up, the catering industry was one of the first industries to undergo market-oriented reform. Market-oriented reforms have stimulated the subjective initiative of the main market players in the catering industry, forming a diversified ownership structure with individual and private enterprises as the main body, and the coexistence of state-controlled enterprises, joint-stock enterprises, foreign capital and joint ventures, giving full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources, and promoting the rapid development of the catering industry. At the same time, the catering industry, as a labor-intensive service industry with a low threshold, is an important industry in China for absorbing skilled workers and migrant workers, and has an outstanding contribution to employment. over the past 40 years, the catering industry has made important contributions to absorbing laid-off workers from state-owned enterprises and migrant workers.

Chinese food has inherited the development of agricultural production, living customs, cooking skills and food culture of Chinese working people for thousands of years. It is a concentrated and typical representative of the five thousand years of history and culture of the Chinese nation. It is this distinctive cultural revitalization feature of the food and beverage industry that makes it more and more valued by the government and all walks of life, and has become an important industry for the inheritance and dissemination of intangible cultural heritage. With the global mobility of the Chinese diaspora, Chinese food has become an important part of the cultural exchange between the East and the West, as well as an important part of the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation. The declaration and protection of culinary non-heritage is also getting more and more attention from all walks of life.