"A new site has been selected to build a larger catering processing center." Wang, who is in charge of a larger company in Jinan's catering circle, is "very optimistic" about the market.

At the beginning of this semester, the municipal education department issued a notice that in September, primary and secondary schools in the main urban area vigorously promoted collective meal delivery to solve the problem of student lunch. The arrival of the "catering era" for primary and secondary school students has made many orders for collective dining delivery units receive "soft hands".

At present, there are 43 collective dining distribution units in Jinan City, does it mean that they have ushered in spring with small dining tables? What is the current situation of Jinan catering market? Is the market really as optimistic as Wang Yue thought?

At the same time, the arrival of the "catering era" in primary and secondary schools, coupled with the publication of the list of 1555 small dining tables in Jinan by the food and drug administration, what impact will it have on the "fate" of small dining tables around the campus?

Once "not enough to eat" half of the catering company is on the edge of profit and loss

In the past many years, a collective dining distribution unit with an investment of millions of yuan is difficult to compete with a "small dining table" with an investment of no more than 10,000 yuan. That's not an exaggeration.

The "small dining table" that can provide lunch, lunch break, and even pick up children and help with homework is more likely to be favored by parents. "School meals may only account for 10 percent of students who need lunch." Ms. Zhang operated a catering business in Huaiyin District for more than 5 years, and she even once wanted to give up, "Investing more than 4 million yuan to build a catering processing workshop, according to the scale of enough to give more than 5,000 students catering, and orders have been hovering around a thousand, which is to maintain business."

It is understood that the collective dining distribution unit is completely different from the "small dining table", and it must obtain the food business license of the business scope including the collective dining distribution, in order to engage in the meal processing, packaging and distribution and other production and business activities of the collective dining. The "certified" must go through the on-site verification of the food and drug regulatory department, the "acceptance" of the workshop layout, health environment, operating process are particularly strict, requiring raw and ripe in line with the "one-way". After cooking, the food is put into a lunch box and put into an incubator, and then transported to the required unit by a special transport truck.

"Collective dining distribution units are generally very large investment, it can be said that nearly half of Jinan are at the edge of profit and loss." Liu Manager of the production department of Jinan Guanyuan Catering Co., Ltd. told you that most of the catering orders are in 600-700 copies, and thousands of orders can be received.

Recent "ignition" orders to "dare not accept"

"Recently, the number of food orders is very optimistic, and now we send about 5,000 to 6,000 units a day." Liu manager told reporters that the implementation of the "catering system" policy in primary and secondary schools has brought a number of catering companies to fire, compared with the previous relatively stable order volume, many catering companies have a substantial increase in orders this month. "But we can't just go after the number of orders. In order to ensure the quality and safety of the food, we have started to postpone some new orders."

After a summer "closure", Ms. Zhang did not expect to usher in a "good start" this year. "Now we can deliver more than 2,000 copies a day, which has doubled the number of orders before the school started." Ms. Zhang said that two primary and secondary schools and a dozen "small dining tables" have joined the catering team. "Due to the surge in workload, the ingredients are now required to be in place by 5 o 'clock, and the clock is ticking to ensure that they are delivered by 10:30, so that children can have lunch in a box within 40 minutes."

"There may be more orders after that." A person in charge of a catering company said, "Many parents are still watching." But the order is not the more the better, Wang Yue, chairman of Jinan Guanyuan Catering Co., LTD., said, "To provide primary and secondary school students with meals under great pressure, especially food safety issues, from food procurement to processing, and then to the food delivery entrance, any link lightly, it may be 'one vote' by the market." With each additional order, there is a full balance of processing and distribution capabilities."

Now the hot catering processing center to a scale of more than 3,000 square meters catering company as an example, the daily order volume of 6000, each price of 10 yuan -15 yuan. Normal operation requires at least 70 employees, monthly salary of 2,000 yuan, management staff and chefs at least 5,000 yuan, and 8 vehicles to deliver to more than 10 schools.

In order to save costs, Huoshi Machinery has developed specialized equipment for the central kitchen and meal processing center, such as (stir-frying machine equipment, blanching and frying equipment, cooking equipment), etc., which are large-scale equipment that can handle hundreds of meals at a time, which can save more than 5 people.