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Classification of catering industry

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

1. Tourist hotels

It can provide accommodation facilities with catering and related services to tourist guests on a night-by-night basis. According to different habits, it is also called a hotel, hotel, Hotels, hostels, guesthouses, resorts, clubs, buildings, centers, etc.

2. Restaurant

A restaurant refers to a facility or public catering house that publicly provides food, drinks and other catering to the general public in a certain place.

Restaurant may mean the following things: Restaurant, a store that provides catering services; Dining Room, a room/facility commonly seen in residential buildings, sometimes associated with Kitchen or living room connected.

3. Buffet

Buffet, also called a meal, sometimes called a buffet, is an informal Western-style banquet that is currently popular internationally. It is used in large-scale business This is especially common during events. Its specific practice is that no formal meal is prepared, and diners are free to choose food and drinks during the meal, and then stand or sit, freely eating with others or alone.

4. The lunch box industry

The lunch box industry, also known as the fast food industry, is a major catering feature of a nation that mainly eats rice. With the changes in the lifestyle of urbanites, it has become increasingly rare to eat lunch with your own lunch box, and the fast food industry in metropolitan cities has developed rapidly.

A box lunch is also called fast food. In China, it is generally a convenient meal based on rice with a variety of stir-fried vegetables and other non-staple food.

5. Vendors

Vendors refer to hawkers who set up stalls to do business. Generally refers to mobile vendors who set up street stalls. There are no fixed operating stores, and there are free-flowing hawkers. In real life, it refers to unlicensed vendors who engage in guerrilla warfare with city managers (urban management).

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