When I first arrived in Shanghai three years ago, I was often surprised at the speed of takeaway arrival: sometimes it was only 20 minutes when I put down the phone, and the rider came to knock on the door to deliver meals.You know, in Singapore, which is only one -tenth of Shanghai, it is not new to wait for one hour to takeaway.
Later, it was discovered that this was not only because there were huge takeaway riders in Shanghai, but also because many restaurants could go out immediately after receiving the order.The prefabricated dishes using heating are the rapid delivery of these restaurants.
The dissatisfaction of prefabricated dishes before is because of its uniform taste, but the controversy of whether prefabricated dishes can enter the campus this month have pushed the industry that has developed rapidly in recent years.
After the start of the Chinese school in September, Jiangxi Ganzhou, Shenzhen and other places in Jiangxi successively reported that the school cafeteria used prefabricated dishes for meals, causing parents to rebound strongly.Worried that the prefabricated dishes are not safe and hygienic, and affect their children's health, some parents even resign and send them to school by themselves.
Faced with the storm of continuous fermentation public opinion, the Ministry of Education of China stated last week that, in view of the effective regulatory mechanisms such as the current prefabricated dishes, there is no unified standard system, certification system, and traceability systemCareful attitude should not be promoted into campus.
The official conclusion temporarily subsided the controversy of "prefabricated vegetables into campus", but more people found that from chain fast food to high -end hotels, from tea to barbecue, all have prefabricated dishes.There are also netizens to share tricks: When customers place orders, they cannot adjust spicyness, cannot remove the green onion, ginger, garlic, and dishes with dark redness and lack of water. They are prefabricated dishes.
It is not just parents who are furiously fired by prefabricated dishes.Many diners think that the lower library is fresh. If the restaurant is also used in prefabricated dishes, why is it so expensive?Some people worry that the popularity of prefabricated dishes will cause chefs to be unemployed, causing Chinese food culture to face the inheritance crisis.
According to the prefabricated group standards released by the China Cooking Association in 2022, the prefabricated dishes include lunch meat, quick -frozen dumplings and other "food/hot" foods, plum vegetable buckle meat and other simple cooking "即 cooking" after being served.Food, and net dishes and net meat that is contained in "mixing" according to weight.It is also regarded as prefabricated dishes operations from the central kitchen of the chain restaurant to various branches.
The prefabricated dishes have the advantages of unified procurement, mass production, standardization of ingredients, and control costs, making it a new favorite of the catering industry.Ai Media Consultation data shows that the scale of China's prefabricated vegetable market will exceed 1 trillion yuan (S $ 187.6 billion) in 2026.At present, there are more than 60,000 related enterprises engaged in prefabricated dishes, of which they have both dining names and emerging enterprises.
The Chinese media disclosed last week that Zhang Nuclear, a "nucleic acid king" that contracted multiple nucleic acid testing during the crown disease epidemic, also established a new company to enter the prefabricated vegetable track.This further deepen people's concerns: even if you make nucleic acids, how messy is this market?
In fact, parents and diners worry about prefabricated dishes, such as unrealistic ingredients and unhygienic production processes, etc., and are also suitable for general cafeteria and restaurants.Food safety issues have always attracted much attention in China. From the melamine milk 15 years ago to the "rat head duck neck" in the cafeteria meals this year, it has continued to trigger a crisis of serious confidence.Even the uniformly purchased materials purchased by the government during the Shanghai Fengcheng last year can have problems such as "milk milk" and "cottage oil", which makes it difficult for the public to rest assured.
On the other hand, some restaurant operators disclosed that in fact, China's food safety standards are "the strictest in the world". Ordinary restaurants and school cafeterias are not allowed to make dumplings. The operators have to use quick -frozen dumplings."Wait for the regulators to check you a few times, you will find that the prefabricated dishes are really fragrant."
Too rigorous standards make most operators tired of dealing with formal inspections, but the long -standing interests colluded, which also allowed a small number of industry to violate the law and eventually lead to "a mouse shit broke a pot of porridge."Netizens accurately summarized this phenomenon as "high standard legislation, universal illegal, and selective law enforcement."
In the final analysis, the panic and anger caused by prefabricated dishes, like many other social problems in China, are crisis due to inconsistent standards, inadequate supervision, and opaque information.If you want to say that prefabricated dishes are different, it is the production, certification and supervision of this emerging industry that has not yet formed a mature mechanism, so that illegal merchants have more loopholes to drill; because the people lack information and trust, they would rather resist or dare to take risks.Essence
Prefabricated vegetables are commonplace in developed economies such as the United States and Japan. In Singapore, where human resources are scarce, the government also encourages catering industry to use central kitchen to improve productivity.When I ran human news in Singapore a few years ago, I could hear the restaurant owner from time to time to share how to regulate product control and improve efficiency through prefabricated processes.
With the gradual decrease in China's demographic dividend, the popularity of prefabricated dishes is an inevitable trend.Instead of prohibiting it, it is better to use this opportunity to regulate the development of this emerging industry. For example, it is clear what prefabricated dishes are, how to ensure safety and hygiene, whether the restaurant should be marked with prefabricated dishes, and how to adjust the charges ...
Recently, a series of public opinion storms have allowed prefabricated dishes to enter the public vision from the restaurant's back kitchen.How to make prefabricated dishes on the hot pot entered millions of households, which is better for the public, this huge market is a small but important part in the process of economic and social transformation in the future.
