What is the main function of the central kitchen?

Central kitchen is not a simple expansion of restaurant scale, it is the carrier of catering food industrialization, and it must have multiple functions such as unified procurement of raw and auxiliary materials, quantification of nutrition and flavor, standardized processing and production, product safety and quality inspection, unified storage and transportation, information management and so on.

The central kitchen provides meals for groups (schools, institutions, military units, hospitals, office buildings, gatherings, aviation, dining cars and other tourist groups) in the form of terminal products or lunch boxes of restaurants or canteens; Provide finished or semi-finished products to fast food chain stores (fast food restaurants, specialty stores, convenience stores, etc.). ) in the form of prefabricated staple food and large packaged cold chain, reheat or re-mix and eat it alone; Provide cooking materials to restaurants, canteens, hotels and guesthouses in the form of large package cold chain distribution to facilitate the preparation of canteen meals, private kitchens, holidays or festive wedding dishes; Provide finished or semi-finished products to physical stores or e-commerce companies such as Shangchao in the form of small packages at room temperature or cold chain as raw materials for family meals or convenient cooking.