Nestle research centers create custom China restaurant products

A skilled chef is hard to find and hire in China's culinary businesses. Nestle's research team has been working on how to simplify and offer standard cooking procedures for Chinese restaurants that enable chefs, even those with less experience, to perform well in the kitchens.

Chinese restaurants that aim for the mass consumers look for more efficient but less costly operations. High-end and luxury dining-out places have suffered from a sharp slowdown as a result of the government austerity campaign.

Nestl Professional, a business unit in the Nestl Group, focuses on providing products, solutions and services for the out-of-home industry. It sees the industry's challenges as an opportunity and has opened its second customer engagement center in Shanghai recently, after its first one in Beijing. The new facility serves as a milestone for Nestl Professional to further explore China's food and beverage market, said Nestle's executive.