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Opportunities and challenges in the industrial catering sector today
According to a report from the General Statistics Office, the country's labor force aged 15 and over in the first 9 months of 2022 was 51.6 million people. This is a very large figure, accounting for ½ of Vietnam's total population. For that very reason, it is seen as an advantage and an opportunity for the industrial catering business to grow. The industrial catering business can be described as a market with great growth potential, but also no shortage of challenges. So what are the opportunities and challenges of this industry? Join STAVI in exploring the details in the article below!
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Image: Delicious, nutritious industrial meals for workers
Read more about STAVI " Industrial catering " at the following link: https://stavi.com.vn/en/service/Provide-industrial-catering.html
What do you understand by industrial catering services?
- Industrial catering means the mid-shift meals of workers and employees at plants and factories. These are meals produced in large quantities and completed in a short time to serve many employees at once, at a low cost to suit the budgets of today's workers.
- Companies providing industrial catering services can be as large as an enterprise with many locations or an individual operator providing their own food service. Lunches and large parties such as weddings or corporate events are some of the occasions that can use high-quality industrial catering services, depending on customer needs.
Why develop industrial catering services?
In the past, when industrial parks were still few, workers' main meals were usually self-prepared, meaning they had to prepare their own rice box at home to bring along, or use their mid-shift breaks to go out to eat. Later, some employers began to take an interest in their employees' well-being and organized mid-shift meals for staff at the company canteen, or built canteens to help workers conveniently and quickly get a meal to suit their needs and budget.
Image: STAVI industrial catering in factories
However, in the increasingly demanding working conditions of the industrialization era, with production scale constantly expanding and floor space ever scarcer, organizing meals at plants and factories has become complicated and less efficient, especially for enterprises with large numbers of workers per shift. Forcing workers to prepare their own meals from home is arduous and costs time and energy, while the trend of eating freely outside, with no guarantee of health, has become widespread. For this reason, a new service industry, the industrial catering business, was born and has grown ever stronger to meet the practical needs of a modern economy developing rapidly toward industrialization, solving the difficulties of enterprises as well as workers.
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Opportunities and challenges of industrial catering services
1: Opportunities
Vietnam has a tropical monsoon climate, so the agricultural sector's produce is very diverse in every season of the year, and vegetable and fruit prices are quite low compared with other countries in the region. Meat and fish products are likewise varied and affordably priced. This is seen as an advantage for the industrial catering business.
Today, people of working age make up a large share of our country's population, most of them working at companies and plants in industrial parks. Demand for industrial catering there is therefore very high. This is an opportunity with a great deal of potential for anyone providing industrial catering services.
Image: Industrial catering in industrial parks
In addition, industrial meals are prepared with the help of industrial kitchen equipment: high-capacity cookers with short cooking times that ensure dish quality. This equipment is usually made of very durable stainless steel that is easy to clean and maintain, such as industrial gas stoves, Asian wok ranges, rice steaming cabinets, bone broth stockpots and more. With the support of industrial kitchen equipment, chefs cook dishes faster and more simply than ever and can cook large volumes of food at once, saving time and cost.
Image: Industrial kitchen system meeting standards
2: Challenges
However, food safety and hygiene is the top concern of the industrial catering service industry. It always requires you not only to ensure hygiene in preparation and cooking, but also in portioning, storage and transport, using stainless steel trays to divide the meals, which helps keep the food hot while preventing any chemical reaction with the food, creating professionalism and ensuring all processes take place as quickly, safely and efficiently as possible.
On the other hand, you have to work out how to make meals that are fully nutritious, safe and hygienic and reasonably priced while still bringing a profit to the operator. For this reason, industrial catering operators need consistent principles from receiving incoming food ingredients and preparing dishes to portioning meals and delivering them to users, all of which must be tightly and strictly managed. In addition, industrial catering operators must always follow the one-way industrial kitchen process, meaning that from ingredient selection and prepping to cooking, everything must be done with safe cooking equipment in order to handle large volumes as quickly as possible, with no backtracking at any stage, to ensure food safety and hygiene for the meals.
Conclusion
If you are an enterprise employing a large workforce or you manage a school or hospital, come to STAVI industrial catering provider. We are a company operating in the production and supply of industrial catering for companies, hospitals, schools and offices with more than 15 years of experience. Alongside that is a team of professional staff who want to bring customers quality meals that meet food safety and hygiene standards. Contact STAVI to get meals that are Delicious - Nutritious - Affordable!
