Beijing issued the first food and beverage industry standards, the city's six new restaurants must not be less than 60 square meters.

The city's first food and beverage industry standards, "Beijing food and beverage industry business norms" issued yesterday, from the opening conditions, business norms, operating norms and other aspects of the detailed introduction of the specific specifications of the catering industry. In the future, within the six districts of the city, the use area of new catering service places shall not be less than 60 square meters, and no energy other than pipeline natural gas and electricity shall be used to engage in related operations.
in order to reflect the higher requirements for environmental protection in the catering industry, the Code introduces a system of indicators for the evaluation of cleaner production, focusing on specific norms for energy conservation, emission reduction and cleaner production. For example, it is prohibited to build, remodel or expand food service items that produce smoke, odor and abandonment in residential buildings, commercial and residential complexes that do not have special flues, or commercial floors adjacent to residential buildings. Food and beverage business units should set up a special person to manage the smoke purification facilities, or entrust a third-party professional company, regular cleaning of flues, replacement of activated carbon, etc., to ensure the normal operation of the facilities, emission standards, Chinese food operation between the exhaust pipe should be cleaned at least once every 60 days, clean-up should be well recorded.
At the same time, the Code encourages catering business units to purchase and use energy-saving, environmentally friendly facilities and equipment and supplies, reduce energy and material consumption, and encourage themselves or entrust professional companies to install on-line monitoring measures to reduce the emissions of smoke pollutants.
" before the catering enterprises do not want to cook bright stoves, mostly because the on-site environment has room for further improvement, so we take on-site management as an important provision. "Writing group experts Sang Jian introduced, "code" advocates catering business units through transparent kitchen, video kitchen and network kitchen and other forms of implementation of the "bright kitchen stove."
In accordance with the functional positioning of the capital city, the Code proposes that within the six districts of the city, except for the standardized commercial facilities for the unified construction of Beijing, the use area of new catering service places shall not be less than 60 square meters, new catering projects shall not use underground space for commercial operations, shall not use energy other than pipeline natural gas and electricity to engage in related operations, and shall not use civil electricity and residential water to engage in business operations.
the Code also specifically provides new requirements for corporate social responsibility. As most of the catering is concentrated in the field of mass consumption, elderly meals, children's meals and other fields lack of supply, the Code encourages catering enterprises to carry out research and development of nutrition meals for the elderly and students, production, sales and so on.
The Code also specifically lists breakfast services as an independent one, encouraging catering enterprises to operate breakfasts and providing safe, hygienic, nutritious and convenient breakfast services to the public. Breakfast business time is generally not less than 3 hours, should cover 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., the sale of takeaway food should be equipped with health-compliant packaging, food and debris, food and coins stored separately, sales staff shall not be directly contact with food by hand.
The Code also includes sales services in the catering industry standards for the first time, specifying reservation services, pre-service preparation, reception services, checkout delivery services, and encouraging enterprises to establish modern information systems for ordering and ordering meals.
The Code is formulated and proclaimed by the Beijing Culinary Association under the guidance of the Municipal Commerce Commission. In the future, government funds will give priority to supporting the implementation of the Code of catering enterprises, leading the city's catering industry to standardization, branding, chaining and standardization of development.