The so-called pre-made dishes, simply put, are various semi-finished edible dishes, such as various dishes with rice-watered rice, which can be made into pre-made dishes, such as the plum vegetable buckle , braised pork , potato stir-fried beef, etc. These pre-made dishes are put into plastic bags. When we want to eat them, we heat the pre-made dishes and pour them on the steamed rice and eat them directly. It is very convenient. Even the taste and taste are far better than those that are freshly cooked in restaurants. The most important thing is that this thing is cheap!
The first time I came into contact with this thing was in 2007. I worked in a Ledi KTV in Shanghai. My job was in the kitchen, which specialized in making simple meals. When I entered the kitchen, I was stunned. There was no open flame. How could it be called a kitchen? There were only two induction cookers, no oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and even no knives, only scissors.
I was confused and didn't ask so much. After all, I was just a working person. During the personnel interview, I didn't ask if I had any kitchen experience. I also said that the work was very simple and the master could take it for a long time. Sure enough, the master took us for two hours and I could do it. It turned out that everything was so simple.
Since it is a KTV, it is naturally impossible to make big meals. The so-called simple meals have a Taiwanese style. After all, this KTV is launched in Taiwan. The simple meals are all fixed and divided into different grades. Basically, one rice with a cup of iced black tea + one pudding + 6 chicken wings. The two grades of simple meals only have the difference in the number of chicken wings.
chicken wings, frozen and marinated. After a microwave, the pudding is flushed with pudding powder , pour it into a utensil for cooling. The rice is made in the rice cooker, plus the so-called pre-made vegetable buns: Taiwanese braised pork, dried plum vegetables and pork grains. By the way, there is also Italian meat paste noodles . The Italian noodles are cooked and taken out. The meat paste is also pre-made. Heat it in hot water and pour it on. To be honest, those flavors smell really good.
At that time, I really felt that Shanghai was such a wonderful place, and food was so convenient. As I grew older, after reading various information, I gradually understood what pre-made dish is.
Until some time ago, a friend of mine opened a small restaurant, which was a small restaurant that specialized in takingout. In fact, before he opened a small restaurant, we often ate and drank together. Since he opened a small restaurant, he always said he was busy on the phone. One night, he called me to go to his shop for two drinks, and I went there. He said he was not going to do it anymore.
I asked him what was wrong, and he said he was too tired and didn't want to do it anymore. According to him, every day when he opened his eyes, he just did it at 10 am and worked until 12 pm. He really couldn't stand it anymore.
I said you can, the business must be good, he smiled and shook his head, and I suddenly remembered something: buddy, I remember you didn’t know how to cook before, why did you start a chef and open a restaurant?
He said, now, if you open a small shop, you don’t need a chef at all, and you don’t need to weigh a spoon at all. Everything is a semi-finished product, just heat it up.
As he said that, he pushed open the kitchen door and took me in to take a look. As soon as I entered the door, I felt a familiar feeling, which was exactly the same as the kitchen I was in before. Moreover, I found that what he made was a simple meal mode, which was equivalent to saying that after a set meal, there were desserts, staple foods, and drinks, everything was semi-finished.
A friend said that a dish bun costs about 6 yuan, plus rice, packed boxes, drinks, and desserts, the total is less than 10 yuan, and the price is 19.9 yuan. Excluding the takeaway fee, a meal can make a profit of about 4 yuan. It is very likely that a dish bun can be evenly formed into two meals. In this way, the profit will be even higher. More than 100 servings a day, and more than 80 servings are used when the business is slow.
For this business, he has not had a normal life for nearly a year. He also said that most restaurants now use vegetable buns. Except for the fresh vegetables and other types of vegetables, meat and vegetables are basically vegetable buns.
Pre-made dishes, as the name suggests, are prepared in advance, or even several months in advance, through a mechanized assembly line, frozen, and sold. The preservative content can be imagined. Originally, this product was introduced to facilitate the convenience of people's dining in special circumstances, similar to instant noodles. However, it is obvious that in order to survive in inverted , restaurants have chosen pre-made vegetable buns. After all, it is not only cheap, but also saves the cost of chefs for the hotel. You should know that the biggest expense of a restaurant is chefs.
Obviously, in the mass catering industry, when others use it, you don’t use it, your meals will be slower than others, your dishes will be more expensive than others, and the cost of opening a restaurant will be higher than that of a chef. If we continue to roll in this way, the chef industry will be considered a waste and our dietary safety will gradually lose its bottom line.
I really don’t dare to continue thinking. Fortunately, I basically don’t eat outside now and I have always been cooking at home. But what I want to say is that if I let the pre-made dishes occupy our dining table, it would be such a sad thing!
