What s different about the People s Daily Central Kitchen

"Central kitchen" refers to the food industry to infiltrate the catering industry, meet the daily dietary needs of the general public, the application of professional mechanization, automation equipment, a large number of production of nutritionally balanced, delicious, convenient fast food production place. In other words, a central kitchen is a factory that produces fast food food. In this factory, according to the production process of fast food, it is equipped with special production equipment (called central kitchen equipment); It can be a stand-alone food processing equipment or a fast food production line with mechanized and automated functions.

When establishing a central kitchen, it is necessary to follow the principle of appropriate scale and appropriate investment. With self-investment funds and rolling development as the mainstay, the scale and function of the central kitchen must be market-oriented. The market is like "a car", and the central kitchen is "a horse", and the size of the "car" is matched with the size of the "horse".

The five supporting systems required for the construction of central kitchen include design and construction system, facility supporting system, equipment supporting system, management system and supply chain system. At present, there are still many problems in these five supporting systems in China. In particular, there are still imperfections in the five major supporting systems.

After understanding the function of the central kitchen and its development direction, it can be clearly concluded that the establishment of the central kitchen is the condition for realizing the intensive, large-scale and standardized production of catering. Because the central kitchen fully embodies the function of intensive production and intensive distribution, it creates the necessary conditions for the large-scale, standardized and industrialized production of fast food.

The decline in total catering consumption and the rising labor costs determine that environmental protection and energy saving are the mainstream trends in the construction of central kitchens. The catering industry is seeking a new mode of operation, and the central kitchen has the potential to become a new source of profit for catering enterprises.