What is the concept of leisure catering? What is the difference between leisure catering and traditional catering?
In recent years, the word "leisure" has become a fashionable vocabulary, and concepts such as leisure tourism and leisure food have gradually penetrated into all aspects of people's lives. With the development of society, especially the improvement of economic strength and the renewal of ideas, people are increasingly eager to have a place to relax and eat delicious food in the fierce social competition, just like opening a quiet harbor in a busy city to let people find a dream. When it comes to "casual dining", many people will think of some restaurants, such as various fast food restaurants, western restaurants, cafes, tea performances, tea restaurants and so on. Although they all contain leisure elements or projects, they can't make guests fully feel the taste of leisure. Although this restaurant is beautifully decorated, elegant, clean and hygienic, it will not make people feel comfortable, release tension and get pleasure when eating. The reason is the lack of "service" and "atmosphere". In some big hotels, cafeterias and song-and-dance restaurants, there are various kinds and forms of food, some of which are eaten while watching, some of which are eaten while playing, accompanied by various lottery activities, but they still cannot make people forget restraint and feel relaxed. In the ancient city of Xi and other large and medium-sized cities in China, some small restaurants, such as soybean milk shops, juice shops, cake shops, noodle shops and cafes, also advertise "leisure", but they are still far from the real leisure dining. Many people in the industry believe that "leisure catering" in the true sense is by no means a fashionable word, and it should cover restaurant atmosphere (environment, decoration, style), business varieties, business hours, service methods and so on. This is a complex, without which it is difficult to call it "leisure". Many people feel this way. The first feeling of going to a restaurant for leisure is to look at the atmosphere, surrounding environment and decoration style of the restaurant. According to people's preferences, this kind of atmosphere is not necessarily the same, but it can be Chinese, western, classical and modern, and the feeling can be warm and exciting, novel and dynamic, elegant and romantic, or moderately casual, so that various types of leisure restaurants can meet the needs of different types of people. For example, China's classics can be small bridges, pavilions, flowers and trees, flowers and birds, celebrity calligraphy and painting, small scenes in the courtyard and light songs and dances, which make people feel quaint, elegant, back to nature and a paradise. Western painting can be decorated with classical oil paintings and classical English manuscripts. Pale gray-blue pictures and ancient parchment tones constitute the keynote of traditional western culture. Warm seats scattered everywhere, open velvet curtains, open cooking and transparent kitchen make delicious food appear in front of your eyes, which makes people feel the warmth of a family kitchen. The dynamic restaurant allows guests to enter a world of sports. Shooting, shooting and jumping of world-famous sports stars, various simulators enable you to enter "home run", "ski resort" and "golf course", full of shocking pop music and colorful sports and entertainment facilities, coupled with the sports scenes selected by the restaurant's projection TV, make people immersive, exciting and feel food, entertainment, sports and pleasure. The second impression of leisure dining should be that there are many kinds, which can be divided into different types (Chinese food, western food, Japanese food and Southeast Asian food) and can span cuisines. Of course, this is by no means a hodgepodge, it can take one kind of food as the main line, or there can be other types. Snacks, side dishes and snacks can be rich. There should be not only food that can satisfy the guests, but also tea, snacks, fruits and so on. In this way, we can talk about business and relax. There are stillness and tranquility in sports, which set off each other and complement each other. The randomness of time is the third feeling of leisure dining. Usually, people take breakfast, lunch and dinner as their living habits, and time constraints make people feel inconvenient. People who get up late, catch the bus, work overtime and entertain themselves can't be satisfied, so leisure dining fills this gap, from three meals to six meals until they are connected (that is, from morning, noon and evening to morning tea, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and midnight snack), and the appearance of this restaurant satisfies the randomness of people's leisure dining. The fourth feeling of leisure dining is the flexibility of service. This service should be unfettered. From the decoration and layout of the restaurant, the clothing of the staff and the service mode, we strive to make the artistic conception of "leisure" deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In addition to the self-service used in many restaurants at present, or the easy "winning the prize by solving puzzles" service, we can also provide heart-to-heart service. This kind of service does not require employees to do it, but requires employees to know how to satisfy their guests. As long as the guests ask, employees can chat with them, thus narrowing the distance with them and making them feel at home, thus eliminating the sense of constraint. Nowadays, people's expectation for the catering industry is no longer simply to meet the needs of the stomach, but a sense and spiritual all-round satisfaction. Leisure catering is very popular in some developed countries, and also in some cities in China, such as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Tea restaurants in Shanghai and Beijing, porridge court in Guangzhou and tea houses in Hangzhou are all good examples. In Xi 'an, catering enterprises such as Oston Western Restaurant, Xiangyuelou Porridge City, Dongjiang Tea Garden, Xianlin and Telford Lane Bar Street have also appeared in succession, which shows that leisure catering is going deep into people's lives and gradually becoming a fashion and trend.