Difficulties in the catering industry

The main threats facing the Chinese food industry:

1. The financial crisis has brought about a downturn in consumer confidence, reduced demand for tourism catering, is expected to reduce the consumption of high-end food and beverage in the unprofessional 3 years

2. Domestic food and beverage market is increasingly showing a diversification of the development trend, the proportion of turnover of the above-scale formal food will further decline.

3. The next five years the competitive situation will remain fierce, from pure price competition, product quality competition, the development of products and corporate brand competition, cultural taste competition.

4. Chinese and foreign catering enterprises to intensify competition. Compared with foreign food and beverage, domestic catering enterprises in hardware, software, especially in the management, service gap is large, foreign fast food dominated the Chinese food and beverage competition pattern,

5. Financing expansion into the development of the domestic catering industry's new model, is expected to the next three years after the economic rebound, there will be more large-scale food and beverage enterprises to seek listing.

6. Catering industry fully into the "micro-profit era", the traditional management, business model has encountered serious challenges, the need for refinement, process, chain scale business transformation.

7. Regulations lag behind. China's catering industry lack of planning and guidance, has not yet established national regulations applicable to the catering industry, the lack of a systematic and strict market access system and mandatory standards, catering business standards vary, the content is not comprehensive, low content of technical knowledge, the lack of national uniformity.

8. Catering structure imbalance. Due to increased competition, rising operating costs, mass catering in some areas of the development is very unbalanced. The industry has a strong momentum of upscale catering, low and mid-range catering services are obviously insufficient.

9. Market order to be standardized. Catering industry lack of unified law enforcement industry, the market order is not standardized, the catering environment is not hygienic, food safety problems occur from time to time, affecting the normal and orderly competition, market management and industry management can not keep up with the situation and development needs.

10. Formal business and cross-regional development, business tax revenue will increase, an important impact on corporate profits

11. Insufficient supply of catering personnel. Catering education and research lags behind, the country has no undergraduate culinary colleges and universities, catering professional managers team training and professional training lags behind. The quality of industry personnel is not high, the lack of high-level management personnel and culinary technology talents. Rising labor prices, the Chinese formal dining industry, labor mobility, making the Chinese formal dining industry is more difficult to obtain and retain better talent

12. Chef qualification confusion, master teacher master certification misconduct, the phenomenon of spending money to buy certificates. Foreign-funded catering enterprises to a variety of preferential conditions to attract Chinese food technology, management, service, culture and other aspects of talent, resulting in a large number of Chinese food business talent loss.