I personally think that the diversification of canteen products has advantages and disadvantages, and we can't generalize. If there are too many dishes in a canteen, it will inevitably cause a large area of waste. This inference must be established. If a canteen is a kind of food and a kind of rice, if everyone comes to eat, there will definitely be relatively few leftovers, so it is relatively easy to purchase a canteen; If there are 20 dishes and 3 kinds of rice in a canteen, people will inevitably pick and choose, and as a result, there will be many dishes and some rice left, because it is difficult to know exactly how many dishes A and B you ate when cooking, so there will inevitably be leftovers. The more kinds of dishes, the more difficult it is to buy the corresponding raw materials accurately, so the overall amount of leftovers is definitely higher than that of a canteen with a single dish.
There are many benefits of the diversification of canteen products, the most direct benefit is "less complaints", which is mainly because there are more dishes and more choices, and you can eat whatever you want, which can basically satisfy everyone. Of course, there are also special picky eaters, but no matter whether the dishes in the canteen are single or diversified, they will scold the canteen and be dissatisfied with it. This is a human problem. Although mainstream people think that canteens need a variety of dishes, it is difficult to implement them in real life, so most canteens have about ten dishes.
In a word, the diversification of canteen dishes has advantages and disadvantages, not the more the better, nor the less the better. The key lies in a "degree" problem.