The main contradiction in China's society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. Catering needs in the clothing, food, housing and transportation of basic human needs in the most important position, with the improvement of living standards, the national demand for food safety and healthy diet continues to rise. On the one hand, the food supply for a long time there are pesticide residues and heavy metals, additives abuse, poor processing environment, food safety can not be guaranteed and other issues, to varying degrees, affecting the people's food and beverage safety and health; on the one hand, with the acceleration of the pace of life and the diversification of the demand for food and beverage changes, convenient, simple, nutritious, diversified to become the requirements of the people's food and beverage; on the other hand, the people's demand for food and beverage has been from the On the other hand, people's demand for catering has changed and upgraded from eating well, eating healthy, eating nutritious, and even eating function (such as high blood sugar, high blood fat and other rational food).
Prepared dishes industry to take the scale of supply, factory processing, standardized production of the development of the way, not only to play a guarantee of food safety, but also to meet the demand for catering food simple and clean life, and more importantly, to meet the people to eat nutritious, eat healthy, eat the upgrading of the function of the protection of the national health is of great significance. From the catering consumption structure, consumption scale and consumption level, there is still a huge upgrade space. In the current weak economic development, internal and external pressures and challenges continue to increase, the consumer market power decline in the development situation, catering is not only people must consume, and has a huge market potential, by promoting consumption upgrading to activate the market supply.