Should Restaurants Charge Customers a Fine for 'Food Wastage'?
SodaHead Living
2012/05/18 18:00:00
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We'll admit it: Sometimes our eyes are a little bigger than our stomachs. But we don't expect to pay extra just because we're feeling a little full! The Kylin Buffet, a Chinese restaurant in England offering an all-you-can-eat buffet -- has posted a notice warning customers of a $32 for "food wastage" fine, The Daily Mail reports.
One mom was told she had to pay the fine after she, her 10-year-old son and 6-year-old niece left two onion rings, a piece of shrimp toast and a spring roll on their plates.
"After we had our starters, we went up for our main course. But a member of staff came over and asked if we weren’t going to eat the food on our plates, and said we would have to pay an extra $32 to cover food wastage costs," Beverley Clark told the Mail. "I was furious and said we were already paying $28 for three meals, but the staff kept checking if we had eaten the food. In the end I wrapped it up in a [napkin], and put it into my bag when they weren’t looking, so it looked like we had eaten it."
After Clark complained, the restaurant deducted about $5 from her bill. "In the end I didn’t have to pay the extra charge, but it felt as though they were trying to rip me off," she said.
"After we had our starters, we went up for our main course. But a member of staff came over and asked if we weren’t going to eat the food on our plates, and said we would have to pay an extra $32 to cover food wastage costs," Beverley Clark told the Mail. "I was furious and said we were already paying $28 for three meals, but the staff kept checking if we had eaten the food. In the end I wrapped it up in a [napkin], and put it into my bag when they weren’t looking, so it looked like we had eaten it."
After Clark complained, the restaurant deducted about $5 from her bill. "In the end I didn’t have to pay the extra charge, but it felt as though they were trying to rip me off," she said.
Sam Fung, manager at the Kylin Buffet, is standing behind the policy. "I accept that my staff should not have spoken to the family about the food on their plates more than once. However, they left a lot of food from the buffet on their plates and we have to charge for wastage of food," Fung told the Mail.
Now, we don't know how it is in England these days, but in America, you're often given way more food that you could possibly eat. And we also have a growing obesity epidemic ... if anything, restaurants should pay you for NOT finishing your food!
Now, we don't know how it is in England these days, but in America, you're often given way more food that you could possibly eat. And we also have a growing obesity epidemic ... if anything, restaurants should pay you for NOT finishing your food!
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Revolution 2012 2012/05/18 20:07:55
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I would like to know exactly what gives either Government Agencies or Businesses the authority to issue any punishment to anybody, be it a fine or a period of their time incarcerated? Did the people either customers or citizens vote in favor of this? Were the people even consulted or informed about these issues?
According to our own "Declaration of Independents" the citizens of this nation are governed by the consent of the governed, meaning the government must present these issues to the people and allow them to decide on fines, or imprisonments for alleged crimes. Therefore, if the citizens are not consulted on the issue of fines, imprisonments or other punishments, then they obviously haven't given their consent on the issues, and thererfore government or businesses don't have the authority they imply they have. Unless the citizens or customers give their consent to either of these entities Go...
I would like to know exactly what gives either Government Agencies or Businesses the authority to issue any punishment to anybody, be it a fine or a period of their time incarcerated? Did the people either customers or citizens vote in favor of this? Were the people even consulted or informed about these issues?
According to our own "Declaration of Independents" the citizens of this nation are governed by the consent of the governed, meaning the government must present these issues to the people and allow them to decide on fines, or imprisonments for alleged crimes. Therefore, if the citizens are not consulted on the issue of fines, imprisonments or other punishments, then they obviously haven't given their consent on the issues, and thererfore government or businesses don't have the authority they imply they have. Unless the citizens or customers give their consent to either of these entities Government or Businesses to issue fines, imprisonments, or other such punishments for an alleged crime these enterprises don't have our Consent and therefore don't have the authority. This is one thing that the citrizens of this nationneedd to remember and remind both Businesses and elected officials and every Government Agency or bureaucrocy.
if you dont like their rules - then DONT eat there....
On the other hand, when it is a buffet where you can help yourself then you should only take what you can eat.. if you leave something it should be because it isn't palatable. Of course in my opinion, these open buffets ask for these problems because it is inviting all the ravenous appetites to eat there...and it encourages bad eating habits..I don't consider stuffing myself as tho there will be no food for the next 5 days as an exercise in good health or getting my moneys' worth.
And BTW, this really does not happen often. you may be lucky to have it happen once a day at the MOST. No wonder Americans are falling behind the rest of the civilized world. We have become a gluttonous, self-centered group of people.