China Hotel has a very awesome area, that is, whenever you submit an order, you will always order all the dishes within 31 minutes. If the speed of serving food is slow, this restaurant can't go on, the turnover rate is not high, and customers are hungry for a long time, which will lead to low wages and eventually bankruptcy.
Although not all restaurants can finish serving in half an hour, at least most restaurants can do it. No matter in the north or the south, it is a kind of slack to go to restaurants and keep customers waiting for too long. But seeing foreign restaurants is very different from what we have. Many restaurants have to reserve places in advance so that the cooks can fully prepare. Even if you are already sitting at the table, you have to wait for a while, and you can't start eating.
Why can chefs in China cook so quickly, accept so many people at meal time, and serve meals quickly? Why can't chefs in other countries do this? This is closely related to different types of food culture.
The chefs in restaurants in China usually prepare dishes and condiments to be cooked all day from the early morning. There are many steps of slicing, shredding and breaking in China's special cuisine, and this process can be handed over to interns in the kitchen or small chefs with insufficient level. In the process of shredding potatoes ahead of schedule, prepare the vegetables and then process the condiments. The function of seasoning is to shorten cooking time without too much seasoning.
If you carefully observe the restaurant kitchens in China restaurants, you can see that there are many key points in the restaurant kitchens, all of which are reducing the time for chefs to cook. For example, special tools, generally only use a Chinese kitchen knife, which can cut and chop, and can be used as a small chopping board to move food. For example, the water continuously oozing from the kitchen stove can wash the pot and brush the kitchen utensils, and can also be directly scooped into the pot to make soup. For example, the big spoon used by the chef can be turned over and fried, and the speed of transferring dishes to the dish plate is very fast.
Look at the restaurants and kitchens of restaurants in western countries again. Western chefs pay attention to exquisite and elegant cooking. This also makes chefs in western countries need to use five or six kinds of kitchen knives when cooking, and different types of kitchen knives are needed to solve different ingredients. Although the ingredients used in western cuisine can be prepared in advance, they are not as well prepared as those in China restaurants. Only when the food is ordered, the cooking time is of course very long.
Let's take a look at the western table manners, which are divided into pre-dinner wine, starter, soup, side dishes, main meals, vegetable dishes, desserts, freshly ground coffee and other processes. Following this process, the meal time is prolonged and the chef's cooking speed is ensured. Therefore, you can't eat directly at the dinner table. You must taste the aperitif first, and then wait for the appetizer to go up.
China people eat, although there are cold dishes and hot dishes, but they don't care about the order of eating. In short, it is best to pile up a large table and look very lively. This also makes the chefs in the restaurant kitchen try their best to promote their own pace, reduce the length of meals, and encourage everyone to express their feelings. Chef China's cooking rate is really fast.