Factory-kitchen

A Factory-kitchen or kitchen factory (Russian: Фабрика-кухня) was a large mechanized enterprise of food service in the Soviet Union, originated in the 1920–1930s.

Its main purpose was centralized preparation of food (both prefabrication and full processing) supplied for communal dining rooms or for personal purchase.

The idea of centralized food preparation was part of the emancipation of women from the household work in the early Soviet Union, and to better tap into women's workforce.

[1] Various Soviet writers described how "a single person can prepare from fifty to hundred dinners a day".

[1] A children's book A Cook for a Whole City[2] described in detail how efficiently a kitchen-factory works.