Going to the restaurant to find ＂pot gas＂, even the Michelin restaurant is full of prefabricated dishes？

During the period of epidemic control in Shanghai, many people chose convenient and simple prefabricated dishes when cooking because of limited ingredients and tight office hours at home. Although the method is convenient (just open the package and reheat it) and the taste is qualified (the taste is much stronger than that of Xiao Bai himself in the kitchen), after the resumption of dining in Shanghai, many people still can’t wait to sit down in the restaurant and feel the "pot gas" fried by the chefs. Unexpectedly, they found that many restaurants have already been occupied by prefabricated dishes.

Opened the door to a new world?

During the epidemic, Mr. Cheng bought a lot of materials with the community group, including many prepared dishes. After seeing the various introductions of the head of the delegation, he shouted: It opened the door to a new world.

A community leader is a restaurant operator. She introduced to her neighbors in the group: This time, the supplier’s dishes were directly put into the community group purchase for residents to buy. Usually, she and her partners directly use these prefabricated dishes in the restaurant. Mr. Cheng thinks that if the prepared dishes such as cold dishes and steamed vegetables are still in psychological expectation, then the cooking in the restaurant is all prepared dishes "really too much". In addition, according to the introduction of group buying, even Michelin restaurants are using prefabricated dishes, which is shocking.

These group purchases have also made Mr. Cheng more careful when he went to eat in the restaurant recently. Every time he sat down in the restaurant, he couldn’t help but look at the kitchen first: Is it the fresh dishes that the chef is cooking now? Or is it just a prepared dish that the chef helps to heat?

He also found that many restaurants now send an hourglass after ordering food to ensure that the dishes are served within XX minutes. Often, the customer just ordered the meal, and the waiter quickly swished a table of dishes, which was counterintuitive. In the conversation with the waiter, he found that these dishes with touching speed are all prefabricated dishes!

Should I inform you in advance that it is a prepared dish?

Prefabricated dishes are becoming more and more popular. According to a research report, the ratio of B-end to C-end in China’s prefabricated vegetable market is about 8: 2, and restaurants and other businesses still account for the bulk of the consumption of prefabricated dishes. Another scene where prefabricated dishes are widely used is take-away. In other words, 80% of the prepared dishes will eventually flow into consumers’ mouths from in-house food and take-away.

With the advantage of convenience and quickness, prefabricated dishes are becoming more and more popular in the business side. Some enterprises have publicly stated that the dishes are 95% prefabricated, and the dishes such as black truffle shrimp and squirrel mandarin fish, which look very high-end, are not carefully cooked by the store chef, but prefabricated dishes that only need simple heating.

According to insiders, when we go to restaurants, we rarely get the dishes we are cooking now, and about 60% of them are frozen prefabricated dishes, especially in some small chain stores and home-cooked restaurants.

In this regard, many netizens shared their feelings on social media: "Prefabricated dishes completely destroyed my motivation to eat takeout, including some in-house food." "In the catering industry that pursues the ultimate goal of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, the standard takes away the wild interest, leaving only the unified taste buds crying."

When prepared dishes occupy take-out and in-house food, people are more concerned about the chef’s skills when they go to restaurants. Now the chef’s skills may be gone and become prepared dishes. If I told you that the exquisite dishes served in a beautifully decorated restaurant were actually prefabricated dishes made a month ago, would you still pay for it?

There are also some netizens who think that since you can’t tell whether it’s fresh and stir-fried, since you have enjoyed the speed of eating, there is no need to complain too much about the use of prefabricated dishes in restaurants.

However, more people are dissatisfied with the use of prefabricated dishes in restaurants. Someone bluntly said: "When you go to a restaurant, you eat prefabricated dishes, just like eating takeout in a store. The taste will definitely not be good. I am trying to make your home hot food faster? Or do you want to earn me three times the difference? "

Should consumers be informed in advance of the use of prefabricated dishes in restaurants? Chen Yinjiang, Deputy Secretary-General of china law society Consumer Protection Law Research Association, told Zhongxin Finance that in view of the possible food safety risks of prepared dishes, it is possible to consider establishing an advance notice system for prepared dishes. The Consumer Protection Law stipulates that consumers have the right to know the real situation of goods and services. Operators should also inform consumers of the real situation of goods and related information truly, comprehensively and accurately.

Chen Yinjiang believes that consumers have the right to know whether the dishes are cooked on the spot and fresh enough. If consumers originally didn’t want to eat prefabricated vegetables, because the operators didn’t tell them and ate them unwittingly, it actually violated the real wishes of consumers and was suspected of infringing consumers’ right to know and choose. With the large-scale listing of prefabricated vegetables, it needs to be further standardized in the future.

Did you know that 60% of restaurants are frozen prefabricated dishes?

Would you like to pay for these prepared dishes?

Synthesized from China News Network and Shanghai News Broadcasting.

Editor | Shen Yuan

Original title: "Going to the restaurant to find" pot gas ",and even the Michelin restaurant is full of prefabricated dishes? 》

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