fast food

a quick lunch (or meal); a snack; Fast food )kuài cān Pre-prepared meals that can be quickly provided to customers, such as hamburgers and box lunches. Also called bento. Hong Kong and Taiwan have been translated into fast food, instant food, lunch and so on, and consumers' understanding of fast food is varied, far beyond the original meaning of foreign words. But nothing more than this, that is, fast food is produced by food factories or processed by large and medium-sized catering enterprises, which is popular, time-saving and convenient and can serve as a staple food.

fast food first appeared in the western world, and it is called "〃quickmeal" or "fast food" in English. After it was introduced into China, the Chinese name was "fast food", which means cooked meals that can be served at any time. In fact, what we usually call "fast food" should be called Chinese fast food, commonly known as box lunch. It is a way of eating that Chinese food absorbs foreign food culture. It entered thousands of households with its bright, convenient and economical features.

There was a banquet called "Liban" in the Tang market, which was the fast food in the Tang Dynasty. According to Li Zhao's Supplement to National History, Tang Dezong summoned Wu Cuo temporarily, appointed him as "Jing Zhaoyin" and asked him to take up his post immediately. Before Wu took office, he invited relatives and friends to have dinner at home. Although time was tight, when the invited guests arrived, the banquet was already set on the table. Some guests were puzzled, and the people in Wu's house replied, "The two cities are very polite every day, so they can take it from the pot, so it is possible to set up a restaurant for three or five hundred people." In the Song Dynasty, in Tokyo, Hang Cheng and other places, there was a kind of catering called "calling by the hour" and "duh-ho-ho-ho" everywhere in the market, just like the so-called convenient fast food today.

The main classification of fast food

1. According to the mode of operation and the degree of industrialization, it can be divided into traditional fast food and modern fast food;

2. According to the flavor of dishes, it can be divided into: Chinese fast food, Western fast food, Chinese and Western fast food, and other fast food;

3. According to the variety form, it can be divided into single variety fast food and combined variety fast food.

the role and position of fast food

the development of fast food industry is determined by social progress and economic development, is the urgent need to improve people's living standards and lifestyles

, and is the inevitable product of people's socialization in order to adapt to social and economic construction, accelerate the pace of work and life, and

socialize family services and unit logistics services.

Its role:

1. Fast food industry is an industry with an important living environment and investment environment;

2. It is a new growth point for the development of national economy and catering industry;

3. It is the breakthrough and vanguard of traditional catering to modern catering;

4. It is an important part of people's leisure consumption, tourism consumption and shopping consumption;

5. It is an important channel for the country to expand domestic demand, absorb social employment and expand re-employment;

6. It is a new force for China to develop an export-oriented economy and connect with the international catering market.

the connotation of fast food industrialization

the connotation of Chinese fast food industrialization is defined as the socialization, industrialization and intensification of fast food.

the socialization of fast food is based on the connotation of the concept of socialization, that is, "scattered and unconnected individual production processes

are transformed into interconnected social production processes". Transform the traditional catering industry, cooking and stir-frying in one household, restaurants and restaurants

into industries with specialized social division of labor, liberate people from housework

, and meet the needs of people's modern life rhythm and nutrition and health care awareness.

The industrialization of fast food is to take the whole process of fast food production as the main line, use some machinery instead of manual work, use quantitative instead of fuzziness, and use assembly line instead of individual production, and turn some varieties of traditional Chinese food into factory-based engineering exercises to produce standardized cooking products-dishes and pasta, whose sensory form conforms to people's aesthetic habits. Or process

finished products and semi-finished products suitable for home cooking.