As an important branch of the catering industry, group meals play an increasingly important role in meeting people's daily dietary needs. With the improvement of people's living standards and the change of catering consumption concepts, the institutional catering market is also developing and changing. So, what is the future development direction of group catering? Where does 2024 go from here?
First of all, with the rise of healthy eating, healthy group meals will become an important development direction in the future. Healthy group meals focus on the freshness, nutrition and naturalness of ingredients, and advocate low-oil, low-salt, low-sugar cooking methods to meet consumers' needs for healthy diets. In the future, healthy group meals will pay more attention to personalized and customized services, and provide different healthy diet plans for different groups of people to meet consumers' higher demand for healthy diets.
Secondly, with the continuous progress of science and technology, intelligent group meals will also become an important development direction in the future. The intelligent group meal will use the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other technical means to realize the intelligent management of food procurement, production and distribution, improve efficiency, reduce costs and ensure food safety. In the future, intelligent group catering will pay more attention to the improvement of user experience and intelligent services, and provide consumers with more convenient and intelligent catering services.
Third, sustainable group meals will become an important development direction in the future. With the increase in environmental awareness, consumers are increasingly concerned about the sustainability of food production. Institutional catering enterprises need to pay attention to the environmental protection issues of ingredients, production process, packaging, etc., and adopt sustainable development strategies to reduce the negative impact on the environment. In the future, sustainable development will become an important competitiveness of institutional catering enterprises, and only through sustainable development can we win the trust and support of consumers.
Fourth, with the upgrading of consumption and the acceleration of people's pace of life, convenient group meals will become an important development direction in the future. Convenient group meals focus on the characteristics of fast, convenient and delicious to meet the catering needs of consumers in the fast-paced life. In the future, the convenience group meal will pay more attention to the improvement of quality and taste, and meet the needs of consumers by providing more diversified and personalized convenience catering services.
To sum up, the future development direction of group meals includes healthy group meals, intelligent group meals, sustainable group meals and convenient group meals. In the next few years, with the transformation of people's living standards and catering consumption concepts, these development directions will become more obvious and prominent. For institutional catering enterprises, they need to keep up with market changes and changes in consumer demand, and constantly innovate and upgrade their service and management levels to adapt to future development and changes. At the same time, it is also necessary to pay attention to industry development trends and changes in policies and regulations, strengthen its own compliance and risk control capabilities, and ensure the sustainable development of enterprises.