The market scale is increasing year by year.
China's group meals originated in the 1980s. At the beginning, enterprises and institutions built their own canteens and developed into the market-oriented operation of professional group meal companies. At present, a number of group meal enterprises with a certain scale have emerged in the industry. 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 transformation and upgrading of the industry, the market scale of group meal industry in China has gradually increased in recent years. According to the data of China Hotel Association, at present, there are more than100000 enterprises in the group meal market in China, with an audience of about 670 million people. The market scale has also exceeded10.5 trillion yuan, and its proportion in the overall catering market has been increasing. Group meals have become an important growth pole in the catering market.
The financing rounds are concentrated in the initial stage.
With the popularity of the group meal industry, capital has also begun to flood into the group meal market. Judging from the financing rounds, the investment and financing of the group meal industry are mostly in the initial stage of round A and strategic investment; From the financing point of view, capital pays more attention to the information and intelligence of group meal service and group meal. As the group meal industry enters the fast lane, domestic and foreign investment institutions will continue to be optimistic about the industry.
Mainly serving institutions and universities.
From the business scene, there are many business scenes of group meals, including government canteens, university canteens, enterprise canteens in industrial parks, nutritious meals in primary and secondary schools, conference meals, railway meals, aviation meals and so on. Among them, the operation scenes of government canteens and university canteens are the main ones. According to the survey data, in 2020, 82.6 1% and 76.45% of group dining enterprises will cover government institutions and university canteens.
—— The above data refer to Foresight Industry Research Institute's Development Prospect and Investment Forecast Analysis Report of China Catering Industry.