Carefully create a "Yijia small kitchen" to effectively connect the rural revitalization in Anhui high-speed taste of happiness on the tip of the tongue

Huangshan stinky mandarin fish, Bagongshan tofu, Wushan tribute goose... Passengers do not need to get off the highway, only in the service area can taste the tip of the tongue of Anhui. In recent years, Anhui Jiaokong Yida Company has taken the goal of enhancing the happiness of travel, combined with the characteristics of local culture and cuisine, to create 17 pairs of "Yijia small kitchens", under the standardized and strict catering system, organic fresh ingredients plus the processing of bright cooking stoves have won many "repeat customers".

"Home Cook" endorses local cuisine

"Today we will give you a taste of our hometown cuisine." At the beginning of August, Mr. Huang, who was eating at the restaurant in the Bagongshan Service Area of Chuxin Expressway, told his colleagues. His hometown is in Huainan City, because of business exchanges often between Hefei and Fuyang, once accidentally tasted "private dishes" in the service area "Yijia Small Kitchen", which became his "mobile kitchen". Mr. Huang ordered local specialties such as Bagongshan tofu steak, clear soup tofu dumplings, tofu lion's head, shrimp skin tofu and so on. Huainan is the birthplace of tofu culture, and it is said that since Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, invented tofu, Bagongshan tofu has gone through more than 2,000 years. Huainan tofu is made from Bagongshan spring water, which is as fine as gelatin, white as jade, fresh and tender. The "Tofu Feast" made with Bagongshan tofu cooking is famous for its unique flavor and rich nutrition, and has become a unique dish in Huainan.

Through the chef's transparent glass wall and video surveillance, consumers can see the whole process of baking the food, and this visual kitchen also provides food safety guarantees. There are a total of 17 pairs of small kitchens like this in the Anhui Jiaokong Yida High-speed Service Area, combined with regional characteristics, from the atmosphere creation and dish provision, including many special cuisines and food culture in Anhui.

Cooking competition promotes quality improvement

On the basis of maintaining the local traditional style, the service area continuously improves the production process and the quality of dishes. For example, the person in charge of a "Wushan Gong Goose" in the Yijia Small Kitchen in the Longmen Temple Service Area of Benghe Expressway led the chefs to experiment nearly 200 times for more than half a year, and constantly improved in order to achieve the beauty of color and taste. The chef has also developed boxed dishes that are easy for travelers to take with them.

At the same time of individual research and development, companies are also constantly strengthening exchanges and competitions between companies to encourage innovation. In mid-July, a "gourmet feast" was held in the Suzhou Service Area Square of Yanluo Expressway, and representative chefs from the 10 area management centers of Anhui Jiaokong Yida Company showed their skills, and the competition was not only a culinary collision between masters, but also a great fusion of food culture in the north and south of Anhui. "Yuanyuan Fish Head Pot" and "Mandarin Fishing Rice" convey the unique culture and story of ancient Huizhou; "Golden Silk Crispy Beef Ribs" and "Fish Bites Sheep" tell the history and charm of northern Anhui; "Returning with a full load" and "Taiping Bridge Row" allude to people's yearning for a better life. The fragrant delicacies also attracted the onlookers and passengers to taste, and everyone praised them. The judges scored and awarded the dishes from five aspects: creativity and characteristics, taste and texture, craftsmanship and heat, color and form, nutrition and hygiene. The competition has a special exchange and comment session to promote the participants to find deficiencies, learn from each other, improve their professional skills, and better serve travel.

A multi-pronged approach to ensure food safety

Today is the summer high temperature, which is the high incidence of food safety incidents. In June, the company carried out special food safety inspections in various areas, urged all service areas under its jurisdiction to conduct comprehensive self-examination and self-correction, focusing on food business places such as restaurants, convenience stores, snacks and other food business places in the service area to check the implementation of the safety management system. Subsequently, all units checked and rectified each other, supervised and implemented, and ensured that the problems were cleared at the bottom and no dead ends were left. Walking into the back kitchen of any service area, it can be seen that the internal and external environment is clean and hygienic, the classification of kitchenware and tableware is orderly, the operation specification of food samples, raw and auxiliary materials are raw and cooked, and the purchase inspection, proof and ticket and account registration are readily available.

Conduct food safety inspections

In recent years, the company has established a system of food safety around the service area, with 80 systems involving catering alone and 16 rules for food safety inspections, establishing a long-term guarantee for food safety in high-speed travel. The service areas have also taken active actions and have taken the initiative to invite local market supervision departments to inspect the site for many years, so that passengers can eat at ease. In addition to self-operated catering, Anhui Service Area has successively introduced KFC, McDonald's, Laoxiang Chicken, Yonghe Soybean Milk and other catering, and also introduced a number of Chinese time-honored and local well-known restaurants such as Geng Fuxing, Liu Hongsheng, Fu Liji Roast Chicken, etc., to further enrich catering options and improve the quality of catering.

Pairing up to help rural revitalization

In order to maintain the deliciousness and authenticity of the dishes, the ingredients in the service area are mostly taken from the "self-reserved land" of nearby farmers, which has played a positive role in promoting the integration of local areas to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and effective connection with rural revitalization.

Longmen Temple service area is less than 10 kilometers away from Hefei Changfeng County Ma Ying community, at the end of 2016 the service area and the community paired up, as of now, has carried out various types of help activities nearly 200 times, of which, the two sides built the "Longma Cooperative", the service area according to the catering needs, to the "cooperative" to place purchase orders, guide them to grow vegetables, breed poultry, according to the demand to buy, change "blood transfusion" to "hematopoiesis", effectively enhance the production efficiency of farmers, bring income improvement.

Source: Traffic Control Group