History of Fast Food

Fast food

Fast food (a quick lunch (or meal); a snack; fast food ) kuài cān pre-made meals that can be quickly served to customers, such as hamburgers and boxed meals.

Also called box lunch.

Hong Kong and Taiwan have been translated as fast food, instant food, bento, etc., and the consumer's understanding of fast food is diverse, far more than the original meaning of the foreign language can accommodate.

But there are just a few points, namely, fast food is produced by food factories or processed by large and medium-sized catering enterprises, popular, time-saving, convenient, and can be used as a staple food.

Fast food first appeared in the Western world, known as "quickmeal" or "fastfood" in English.

When it was introduced to China, it was called "fast food" in Chinese, which means meals that are cooked and served at any time.

In fact, what we call "fast food" should be called "Chinese fast food", commonly known as "boxed rice".

It is a way of eating in which Chinese food absorbs foreign food culture.

It is a fast, convenient, and economical way to get into the house.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a kind of banquet called "Lipban", which was the fast food of the Tang Dynasty.

According to Li Zhao's "State History Supplement" records: the Tang Emperor Dezong temporarily summoned Wu Min, appointed him "Beijing Zhaoyin", and asked him to immediately go to work.

Wu Min invited his friends and family to a dinner party at his home before he took office, and although time was short, the invited guests arrived with the banquet already on the table.

Some guests were puzzled, Wu Fu's people replied: "two city days have a ritual seat, lifting the bell kettle and take it, so three to five hundred people of the food, can be set up to do.

"By the Song Dynasty, in Tokyo, Hangzhou and other places, there is a market abound called "by the time to implement the call" and "contempt can be done" meals, as today's so-called convenient fast food.

The main classification of fast food

1. According to the mode of operation and the degree of industrialization, it can be divided into: traditional fast food and modern fast food;

2. According to the flavor of the dishes, it can be divided into: Chinese fast food, Western fast food, Chinese and Western fast food, and other fast food;

3. According to the form of varieties, it can be divided into: single-variety fast food and combined varieties of fast food.

The role and status of fast food

The development of fast food industry is determined by social progress and economic development, and it is the urgent need to improve people's living standards and lifestyles. It is the inevitable product of the socialization of family services and logistic services in order to adapt to the social and economic construction, and to accelerate the pace of work and life

The role of fast food industry is to provide the best service to the people, and the fast food industry is to provide the best service to the people, and the fast food industry is the inevitable product of the socialization of the family services and logistic services.

Its role:

1, fast food industry is an important living environment and investment environment of the industry;

2, is the development of the national economy and the catering industry development of new growth points;

3, is the traditional catering to the breakthrough in the modern catering and the forerunner;

4, is the people's leisure and consumption, tourism consumption, shopping consumption and other consumption

5. It is an important channel for expanding domestic demand, absorbing social employment and expanding re-employment;

6. It is a vital force for the development of China's export-oriented economy and docking with the international catering market.

Connotation of Fast Food Industrialization

The connotation of fast food industrialization is defined as the socialization, industrialization and intensification of fast food.

The socialization of fast food is based on the connotation of the concept of socialization, that is, "the transformation of decentralized and disconnected individual production processes

into interconnected social production processes".

The traditional catering industry, a family of cooking and frying, restaurants and catering

stores of the single disease state of war, transformed into a professional social division of labor industry, the people from the housework to liberate

, to meet the needs of people's modern pace of life and awareness of nutrition and health care.

The industrialization of fast food is to take the whole process of fast food production as the main line, to replace handmade with part of machinery, to replace fuzzy with quantitative

, to replace individual production with assembly line operation, to turn part of the traditional Chinese cuisine into factory-engineered operation

, and to produce standardized cooking products with sensory forms in line with people's aesthetic habits -- dishes, pasta, and so on.