What are the main categories of catering?

The catering industry mainly includes:

1. The catering industry is mainly divided into five categories: tourist hotels, restaurants (Chinese food, Western food), buffets and lunch boxes, cold drinks industry and vendors.

2. Specifically, it is divided into three types:

Convenient mass catering market, high-end catering market, and atmospheric catering market. The convenience mass catering market is for mass consumption; there are many high-end catering markets in second- and third-tier cities, especially in third-tier cities; the atmospheric catering market is sandwiched between high-end and low-end, mainly themed restaurants , atmosphere restaurant.

Catering industry:

(catering) is a business that integrates instant processing, commercial sales and service labor to provide consumers with a variety of drinks, food, consumption places and facilities food production and operation industry. According to the definition of the European and American "Standard Industrial Classification", the catering industry refers to catering service institutions with the purpose of commercial profit. In our country, according to the definition of the "Annotations on the Classification of National Economic Industries", the catering industry refers to service activities that cook and prepare food on-site in a certain place and sell it to customers mainly for on-site consumption.

Features:

Disposable:

The catering service can only be used once and enjoyed on the spot. This means that the service can only be carried out when the guest enters the restaurant. When the guest leaves the hotel, the service will naturally terminate.

Intangibility:

The catering industry has intangibility in service utility. It is different from tangible products such as fruits and vegetables. The quality can be judged from the color, size, shape, etc. Good or bad. The quality of catering services can only be evaluated through the personal experience of dining guests after purchasing, consuming, and enjoying the service.

Difference:

On the one hand, the difference in catering services means that catering services are completed by manual labor by catering department staff, and each staff member has different requirements due to age and gender. Due to differences in personality, quality, education, etc., the catering services they provide to guests are also different. On the other hand, the same waiter has different service attitudes on different occasions, at different times, or when facing different guests. There will also be some differences in service methods.

Directness:

After being produced, most industrial and agricultural products with ordinary directness must go through multiple circulation links before they can reach consumers. If the product fails the quality inspection before leaving the factory, it can be reworked. In the store, you can ignore the products you think you are not satisfied with, but this is different for catering products. Its production, sales, and consumption are almost simultaneous, so producers and consumers serve and consume face to face.