Premade meals were a very peculiar category of food that had appeared in his previous life, even being classified separately. Their distinguishing feature was that they were essentially cooked food sealed in bags. Whenever someone wanted to eat one, they only had to take it out and heat it, then tear open the packaging and pour it over rice. They were extremely quick to prepare, and most takeout shops chose this method of preparation. However, premade meals had always had a rather poor reputation. Many people hated them, believing they were unhealthy, harmful to the body, and so on.
But there was actually nothing strange about the emergence of premade meals. Once people had more money in their wallets, more of them went out to eat, and some restaurants frequently received large numbers of orders for their popular dishes. To serve food faster at times like these, chefs would choose to do some preparation in advance, then quickly take the ingredients out to cook when a customer placed an order. Once everything was thoroughly cooked, it could be served to the customers. This was much faster than making no preparations at all.
Of course, this was not actually premade food in the full sense. Premade meals were only perfected later, and it had to be said that the existence of the takeout industry had indeed helped promote their development. After all, when delivery drivers went to pick up orders, a restaurant with good business would be extremely busy, and a single takeout order might require a long wait. Long waits could easily cause orders to run late and leave customers dissatisfied, while the platforms also imposed time limits and deducted money for late deliveries.
As a result, most restaurants that cooked their own dishes were liable to have customers flag