My favourite restaurant is called “Annabella’s Café”. It is a small restaurant serving(供应) Western food. It is in a city called Bristol. It is difficult to find because it is behind a very tall building. Only local people eat at this restaurant.

Tourists(旅游者) can never find it! I think that this restaurant’s food is the best in the whole country. I like to go to this restaurant every two weeks. The waiters know me very well now. They are my friends. They know what my favourite drink is, so when I arrive, there is always a bottle of Coke on the table. The menu changes every week so there is always something different to eat. My favourite meat is chicken, so I always order something with chicken in it. For dessert(甜食), I often have apple pie with custard(蛋奶沙司) or chocolate cake. Delicious!

Sometimes I go to this restaurant for breakfast. For breakfast, I have a typical(典型的) English breakfast: еggѕ, bасоn(腊肉), ѕаuѕаgеѕ(腊肠), tоmаtоеѕ аnd tоаѕt(烤面包). The breakfast is delicious but I prefer(更喜欢) to eat at this restaurant at dinner time.

Open an app, place your order, and wait for your food to be delivered（递送）to your home-this is how many people eat in China these days. According to the latest report, 421 million Chinese people use online food delivery services. That's about half of the total number of internet users in China.

Which group of people is ordering food online the most? It's mainly young people. Meituan, a food delivery service, showed that 86.3 percent of the service's users are between 20 and 34 years old. These people, who live in small families, are driving the development of the food delivery industry. Small families depend greatly on food delivery services.

Chinese families have changed in size over the past years. In 2002, only 7.7 percent of them were single-person families. But this number increased to 15.6 percent in 2017. The two-person families rose from 18.4% in 2002 to 27.2% in 2017. For small families, cooking needs more time and materials, so ordering food online has become more popular.

The food delivery services have become much faster than before at present. According to Meituan's report, the time it takes to make a food delivery dropped from 38 minutes in 2016 to 29 minutes in 2019. Many delivery platforms(平台）are also offering more services, delivering products such as fruit, vegetables, medicine and flowers. More and more customers are interested in the improvement of China's food delivery services. As its services continue to improve, it's possible that the food delivery industry will keep growing.

In Chinese cities, people in yellow or blue suits riding e-bikes are easy to see. They rush between traffic from restaurants to homes and businesses, regardless of wind or rain. They are food deliverymen. Although they make our life more convenient, this can come at a cost for them.

“The food deliverymen are trapped in the app,” says an article in the Chinese magazine Portrait, which has caused a discussion. It points out that on food delivery service platforms Eleme and Meituan, the time limit and route for each delivery order is worked out by an algorithm (算法), which doesn’t consider real-life situations such as red lights, speed limits and fully occupied elevators.

Based on the algorithm, the deadline for a delivery order within 2 kilometers is 30 minutes. Within that time, a deliveryman has to pick up the order and deliver it to the customer. Besides, the time limit has been gradually shortened in recent years. Delay could mean a reduce in pay so deliverymen speed up, often breaking traffic rules and putting people’s lives at risk.

Many people criticized the platforms and asked them to improve the rules applied to the deliverymen. In response, on Sept 9, Eleme announced it would add a button to the app, which allowed customers to extend the time limit for their order, and encouraged customers to show more respect for deliverymen. But this created more heated debates, as some felt the company was avoiding the problem and distracting attention.

They commented that the move was not reasonable, as the deliverymen are following rules made by their employers, and problems should be solved between the two. They felt the company was putting the responsibility on the users rather than solving the problem themselves. Also, even with the ability to allow more time for delivery, it may not fully solve the problem. “If I give them five more minutes, they would not use it to ride slowly or obey the traffic rules. They would simply take one more order. This is not the final cure to solve the problem.”

Actually it would be better to improve the platform’s system and the delivery system. Besides, the government should prevent companies from setting tight schedules for their deliverymen and keep them safe on the roads.