The core data of this article: the number of enterprises in China's group meal industry, the size of the audience group in China's group meal industry, the market size of China's group meal industry, China's group meal industry investment and financing

Market size has been growing year by year

China's group meal originated in the 80s of the last century, and has been developed from the canteens set up by the enterprises and institutions to market-oriented operation by professional group meal companies. Development to the market-oriented operation of professional group meal company, the industry has emerged in a number of group meal enterprises with a certain scale. With the improvement of economic level and diversification of consumer demand, the group meal industry is facing transformation and upgrading, focusing on diversified development.

With the industry entering a period of transformation and upgrading, the market size of China's group meal industry in recent years has also been growing gradually. According to the China Hotel Association data show that the number of enterprises in China's group meal market has exceeded 100,000, the audience of about 670 million people, the market size has also exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan, and accounted for the proportion of the overall food and beverage market continues to rise, group meals become an important growth pole of the catering market.

Financing rounds focused on the primary stage

With the group dining industry, capital has also begun to pour into the group dining market. From the financing rounds, the group meal industry investment and financing is more in the A round, strategic investment and other primary stage; from the financing areas, capital is more concerned about the group meal service and group meal information technology, intelligent aspects. With the group meal industry into the fast lane, domestic and foreign investment institutions will continue to be optimistic about the industry.

Mainly serves the institutions and colleges

From the business scene, the group meal enterprise business scene is rich, there are government agencies and institutions canteens, college canteens, industrial parks enterprise canteens, primary and secondary schools nutritional food, conference and event meals, railroad meals, airline meals and so on. Among them, the business scenarios of governmental institution canteens and college canteens are dominated. According to the research data, in 2020, 82.61% and 76.45% of the group meal enterprise business scenarios covering government agencies and institutions cafeterias and college canteens.

-- The above data refer to the Prospect Industry Research Institute's Analytical Report on China's Catering Industry Development Prospects and Investment Forecasts