Reviewing the course of China's group meals, can be summarized in the following four stages: before the 80s, China's conditional institutions, organizations, all kinds of enterprises are in the form of "cafeteria" to provide lunch for employees. The practice is to arrange dozens of nationally owned employees to preside over the canteen, kitchen equipment is simple and aging, the dining place is poorly decorated, the chef is not professionally trained, the level of cleanliness is low, and the dishes are based on a big pot of rice, the menu is less varied and does not pay attention to the nutritional composition.
The 80's and 90's, in addition to the continuation of the social "cafeteria" model, the phenomenon of bringing food from home was once popular, a considerable portion of the people from home to bring food to the unit, and some units for this purpose is specially equipped with simple equipment to heat up the meal, and with a special person to provide heating services for the employees who bring food.
In the early 1990s, some catering companies to expand the takeaway 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 some extent to alleviate the difficulties of employees to eat, but the dining problem has not been fundamentally resolved.
In the mid-1990s, with the rise of a large number of commercial office buildings and developed countries, developed regions 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.
The end of the 90s, with the company's corporate meal reform, college group meal reform, group meal reform of institutions, group meal reform, group meal socialization, marketization, entrepreneurship has become the main theme of the professional catering company came into being, the group meal market began to take shape.
In the 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 organizers of the 2011 China Group Meal Conference was held in Guangzhou. The Fast Food Committee of China Culinary Association released for the first time the list of the top 16 social group meals in China in 2010, including Sodexo Greater China, ARAMARK Service Industry (China) Ltd, Hebei Qianxihe Catering Co. Ltd, Wuhan Huagong Logistics Co., Ltd, Compass Catering Service (China) Co., Ltd, Guangzhou Hexinglong Food Technology Co., Ltd, Shenzhen Yuxing Catering Management Co., Ltd, Wuhan Steel Logistic Group Fast Food & Beverage Co. Become China's first batch of social group meal 16 strong.