Abstract:In recent years，frequent food safety incidents lead to the food safety crisis. Food safety management information asymmetry is the primary cause of food safety problems. Based on the hotel catering the representa原 tive food types as an example ，the asymmetric information problems in food safety management in the hotel restaurant were analyzed. The problems between food itself and consumers and the hotel food and beverage de原 partment，between producers and hotel food and beverage department，between government regulators and the hotel food and beverage department were proposed. The analysis indicates reasons of the problem of asymmetric information include the functions of social division of labor is different，communication difficulties，circulation posed ，including increase food information acquisition ability，strengthen the food consumer purchasing link of quality supervision，and strengthen the function of government regulation.