Many people eat takeout every day, because it is convenient and meet the demand for fast Food, but have you ever wondered why some takeout cooking faster than you think? Chinese media have recently uncovered the inside story of the catering industry, saying that the takeaway ordered by the average customer may have been prepared a year and a half ago, but the business is simply heated up and put into a lunch box, and then delivered to the customer through the takeaway staff.
According to Chinese media reports, the dish package may be a bit unfamiliar to consumers, but in the restaurant industry, it is a thunderous and lucrative “magic bullet”. What you might expect to be a chef’s freshly fried, hot, delicious meal is actually the case: when you place an order through your cell phone, some businesses take out the long-frozen packs and simply reheat them in a microwave oven. Then it is packed into a plastic lunch box and delivered to you via a delivery person.
In order to find out the inside story of the take-away industry, this reporter took the identity of a restaurant owner and found a dish package distributor in Longgang District. They represent a total of 25 kinds of dishes, the unit price ranges from 4.2 yuan to 8 yuan, covering a variety of hot dishes in Guangdong, Sichuan and Hunan.
The dealer introduced a package of dishes, generally about 200 grams, just a take-away dish volume.
Dealers said, in the restaurant industry, the dish package has long been no secret, especially take-out stores, is more common. To an ordinary individual small restaurants, for example, if the restaurant to prepare their own materials, a day more than two hundred single takeaway, but if you use the dish package, you only need to prepare the rice can. Then the restaurant sales can be fully ten times, at least a day can sell more than 2,000 copies of take-out.
The dealer confessed that most of the dishes made with the package are now fast food restaurants and takeaway stores, because if you hire a chef, it will cost 7,000 to 10,000 yuan a month, you might as well take this ready-made.
The shelf Life of ordinary ingredients in the refrigerator is only two or three days, while the shelf life of the dish package is often six months to a year, some dish package shelf life is up to 18 months. In other words, the take-out you eat may be a year and a half before it is ready for preservation.
When asked if it will not be fresh, the dealer said this date is normal.
Not only takeaway, some restaurants dine-in, but also use the dish package model.
The Chinese reporter also used the name of corporate ordering group meals to find several restaurants on Guiyuan Road in Luohu District, Shenzhen. These stores are very small, are mainly take-out orders, basically do not provide dine-in. In the main brisket restaurant, the reporter found that, in addition to fried chicken, rice and small dishes, other dishes are heated dish package.
Among them, Kung Pao chicken and marinated meat dishes package, which happens to be the reporter in the previous dealers to see the two models.
The owner of the restaurant said: “We are a franchise, unified distribution of the dish package. Our chicken cutlet is now fried, chicken cutlet, chicken pieces are raw. I can’t do chef, if I can do chef I’ll open a big restaurant.”
The owner said that the takeaway business is very good, they are also weekly with the supplier to get the goods, and then stored in the freezer to ensure that they are the freshest goods. However, these so-called “very fresh” dish package, in fact, is also the end of last year’s production.
For the restaurant, the use of the dish package is naturally more advantages than disadvantages, then as ordinary consumers, can accept the dish package model? The report randomly interviewed a number of citizens, the vast majority of interviewees have never heard of the dish package, thought they ordered take-out, that is, the business is ready to do.
Citizen one: I think if we want to eat, we can heat it up at Home, there is no need to go to the restaurant to eat.
Citizen 2: I myself am a very fond of cooking, I think the dish package is an insult to cooking. Things must be fresh, and dish packs are not as good as overnight meals.
In reality, many takeaway businesses are very “grand” in their promotion, displaying fresh ingredients, delicious meals and gorgeous presentations to many consumers through the takeaway platform. Some lawyers say that businesses that implement the “package” style of take-out should pay attention to consumers’ right to know and choose, and make information about the main ingredients of the meal clear in an appropriate way.
Lawyer Pan Xiang said that the consumer is aware of the dishes produced by the package, whether he is willing to consume or buy, is the consumer’s own business. This right to choose should be left to the consumer to exercise themselves. If not disclosed truthfully, it will mislead consumers and influence their judgment and choice.
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