With the approach of the Spring Festival, semi-finished dishes with the characteristics of convenience, freshness and safety have become an important outlet for catering brands to exert their strength in the New Year's Eve market.

Although the semi-finished New Year's Eve dinner is nothing new, this year, affected by special events, the market is quietly changing, and the demand for semi-finished New Year's Eve dinner has soared.

Semi-finished products and central kitchen equipment are organically integrated, and the fast forward button is pressed for New Year's Eve.

In recent years, under the impetus of lazy economy, especially under the influence of post-80s and post-90s who are not good at cooking and have avantgarde consumption concepts, semi-finished dishes have attracted more and more attention from people in the industry.

This year, semi-finished food has become a hot potato, which has also accelerated the development of the whole semi-finished market.

Now more and more catering enterprises are entering the semi-finished track. With the increase of players, capital will pay more attention to the semi-finished food industry.

As the Spring Festival approaches, many catering enterprises launch semi-finished New Year's Eve or New Year's Eve gift boxes, such as potted vegetables, bacon gift boxes and cooked food gift boxes.

Not only that, it is understood that there are many semi-finished New Year's Eve gift boxes in shops, supermarkets and other stalls.

Under the catalysis of consumption upgrading and healthy eating awareness, consumers' demand for semi-finished New Year's Eve dinner has become more demanding, paying more attention to the flavor, taste and quality of semi-finished New Year's Eve dinner, which also means that the market has put forward higher requirements for the production and processing of semi-finished enterprises.

Usually, semi-finished dishes in China are mainly prefabricated dishes with agricultural products, livestock and poultry, aquatic products as the main raw materials. After cleaning, cutting and processing, it can be directly cooked. For example, shredded pork with vegetable fish sauce, kung pao chicken, fish with Chinese sauerkraut, Mapo tofu, lion's head, fried meatballs and lotus root clips are all prefabricated semi-finished dishes that are often seen in life.

At present, in order to meet the demand of safe, fresh and standardized consumption, semi-finished dishes are processed by the central kitchen factory and delivered by refrigerated trucks.

The application of central kitchen in catering industry has effectively realized the safe and rapid standardized batch processing of ingredients, improved efficiency and productivity, and ensured the hygiene and freshness of ingredients and the unification of flavor and taste standards of dishes.

Semi-finished dishes are mostly processed by automatic central kitchen equipment, such as cleaning equipment, vegetable cutters, mixers and packaging machines. From cleaning, cutting, mixing to packaging, automation and assembly line operation are realized, which greatly improves the production capacity and quality of dishes.

It is reported that an industrial park in a certain place uses the advanced central kitchen production line to process and produce semi-finished products, such as sorting, washing vegetables, draining, peeling, cutting, washing rice, steaming rice, frying in a pan and assembling into boxes. So as to realize machine substitution, avoid safety and hygiene problems caused by manual intervention, and ensure uniform flavor and taste standards of semi-finished dishes.

After that, the semi-finished products are distributed through the cold chain to ensure that consumers can eat fresh and safe dishes.

Undoubtedly, the lazy economy has risen in recent years, and the appearance of semi-finished dishes has effectively solved the problems of washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, making and eating slowly, and has gradually been welcomed by singles, families and restaurants.

Under the background of consumption upgrading and post-epidemic era, the market has put forward more convenient, exquisite, fresh, healthy and safe requirements for semi-finished dishes.

With the central kitchen equipment, semi-finished dishes not only expand the market scale, but also ensure the safety and hygiene of dishes and uniform flavor and taste standards.