◥ The staff on the high-speed train wear protective clothing and gloves for meals.
The variety of meals on the high-speed rail is getting more and more abundant. The curtain of the Spring Festival was lifted, and more and more tourists embarked on the road back home. What to eat on the road? This is a problem that many people encounter. Nowadays, high-speed rail meals are more and more abundant, prawns, balls, dumplings, handle meat, etc., passengers have more and more choices. Some time ago, the Jinan-Qingdao high-speed railway was opened to traffic, and there was also tailor-made sour and spicy kelp powder on the car. How are these meals made? How is it delivered to the dining car? How to ensure the safety of meals? On the 24th, the reporter walked into the meal distribution base of Qingdao High-speed Rail Catering Company of Shandong Jitie Travel Service Company to find out.
Text/Film Reporter Wang Jian
Wear protective clothing before entering the workshop
Hands and rain boots are disinfected
At 9:00 a.m. on the 24th, the reporter took the D6001 train to Qingdao Station. Shandong Jitie Travel Service Company Qingdao High-speed Rail Catering Company Meal Delivery Base is not far from Qingdao Station.
It is reported that the meal distribution base of Qingdao High-speed Rail Catering Company was officially put into operation on April 18, 2013, the production workshop covers an area of 2300 square meters, and the daily production capacity of fast food has reached 20,000 copies, undertaking the box lunch production task of more than 200 high-speed rail trains of Jinan Bureau Group Co., Ltd.
To enter the catering workshop, a strict disinfection procedure is required. Wear protective clothing first, then put on a hair net and hat cover, then put on a hat, and use a dust collector to glue the hair or rope from the clothes, and finally go through a 360-degree wind shower program. These are all to prevent crumbling from being brought into the meal. Before entering the catering workshop, you also wear a mask, disinfect your hands and rain boots, wash your hands with hand sanitizer, dry them with a towel soaked in disinfectant water, and rub alcohol after air drying, while the rain boots go through a disinfection pool. The entire disinfection process is as demanding as a laboratory.
"It's the only entrance, and it's all monitored." Jiang Shaozheng, director of the catering workshop, introduced that the production base is divided into a primary processing area, a hot kitchen area, a secondary heating and rapid cooling area, and a rice production line. The primary processing area is mainly for the preliminary processing of meat, seafood, vegetables, etc.; the hot kitchen area is mainly cooked; in the rice barn, the rice must first be sorted and cleaned, and then soaked, potd, steamed, a pot of rice can hold 40 box lunches.
There is also a special place on the site to store the record sheet, and the main points of daily work must be recorded on it. For example, the staff will regularly check the cold storage temperature and record it to see if it is at -18 °C. This is also to ensure food safety and good traceability.
Samples should be kept for every box lunch
100% sample inspection of products
"From the time the ingredients enter the door to the final processing into a box lunch, there is no turning back, and it is directly transported to the high-speed train or into the cold storage." Jiang Shaozheng said that the high-speed rail nutrition box lunch from processing and production to packaging cooling to refrigeration on the train has to go through more than a dozen procedures. Because the primary processing area, hot kitchen area, etc. have stricter environmental requirements and need to be disinfected again, the reporter failed to enter. However, the reporter can still see through the glass and surveillance video that the staff is nervously preparing the meal.
It is reported that a staff member of the high-speed rail catering workshop can manually peel 5 to 7 shrimp from the sea in one minute, hand-hung pulp and soft fry 5 to 8, with a maximum production of 5,000 a day; a staff member of the high-speed rail catering workshop can manually clean 10-16 yellow croakers a minute, manually fry 6 to 10 pieces, and produce a maximum of 7,000 pieces a day; one minute rough processing room machine washing vegetables 5-6 kg, a day to produce 600 kg of seasonal fresh vegetables; one minute packaging line to pack 12-15 boxes of nutritious meals, The cooling tunnel assembly line is cooled 30-40 boxes, and 12,000-16,000 boxes can be produced a day.
Jiang Shaozheng introduced that after the meal is loaded, it enters the spiral freezer through the conveyor track, and in the time of thirty or forty minutes, the central temperature of the meal will drop from 70 ° C to no higher than 7 ° C. This is a temperature suitable for refrigeration. "Some of them enter Qingdao Station directly through the finished lunch box delivery area, and then enter the refrigerated refrigerator of the high-speed rail dining car; and some enter the cold storage of -18 ° C." Meals entering the cold storage are transported to other cities through cold chain transport vehicles, he said.
"In order to ensure food safety, the procurement of raw materials is through the unified bidding of Jitie Travel Service, collection and supply, and when cooking, peanut oil and non-genetically modified soybean oil are used, and the spices are small packages." He said that after the "sealing" of the cooling of the box lunch, each should leave five boxes in the cold storage to keep samples, and the "quality control room" also needs to carry out microbiological testing of the meal. It is reported that each product will be 100% sample inspection.
An average of 7,000 to 8,000 meals a day
There will be new dishes launched during the Spring Festival
When passengers buy box lunches on the high-speed train, the food truck staff will take the box lunch out of the refrigerated refrigerator and heat it in the microwave. Generally, short-group trains have 4 microwave ovens, and long-group trains are equipped with 6 microwave ovens. Therefore, at the peak of the meal, we can always see the busy figure of the dining car staff.
It is reported that one minute high-speed rail delivery dining car 0.3 tons of meal goods, within 10 minutes a team manually transport 1.5-3 tons of goods; one minute high-speed rail dining car bar a waiter places 70-120 kinds of goods to the display cabinet or shelves, neatly aligned; one minute high-speed rail dining attendant walks 100 steps, is the full-day circulation line service passenger value of 300 or 200 parts, full-day service passengers walk 20,000 to 30,000 steps or more; one minute high-speed rail catering attendants can mentally calculate 20 to 35 kinds of goods, Efficient service passenger meals, 2 to 4 trains throughout the day full train passenger meal inquiries and needs.
Nowadays, the meals are more and more abundant, including prawn and sea treasures set, dumpling meat set, yellow croaker set, vegetarian meal, colorful dumplings, etc., with prices ranging from 15 yuan to 89 yuan. "Our daily production at Pingfeng is 7,000 to 8,000, and at its peak it can reach 15,000." Jiang Shaozheng said that all the high-speed rail trains of the Jinan Bureau Group Company are catering here. Some high-speed railways from other bureaus will also make up meals here, such as the Harbin Bureau and the Beijing Bureau.
Jiang Shaozheng introduced that they have a "model worker team" dedicated to research and development, including culinary technicians, special chefs, and nutritionists. During the Spring Festival, several dishes are ready to be launched and will soon meet the passengers. "Now we are testing the nutrient content, the total number of colonies, etc., and some experiments are being done." He said that high-speed rail meals will become more and more abundant. Some time ago, the Jinan-Qingdao high-speed railway was opened to traffic, and the sour and spicy kelp powder tailored on the car was also developed by them.