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
But it is a pity what people waste.... on a number of fronts.
ಠ_ಠ srsly?
What the restaurant is doing here seems to me to be as the flip side of a person who loads up in pockets or big purse to take more food home. That is cheating the honor system, which system is defined by the restaurant. At a buffet, we are only supposed to eat what we can there, and nobody gets to carry out leftovers. They encourage everyone to pile on with the buffet style to get more bang for your pound. (That's why I myself don't do expensive buffets-- I can never eat that much at one sitting, so it's not discount to me.) What the restaurant is doing here is CHEATING their own honor system-- an interesting twist on the old "bait and switch". Nope, I'm not buyin' it. Nice try, restaurant boy. lol
is a disgusting waste and a huge loss to the restaurant and other patrons. I don't do buffets either, but my daughter is in the restaurant trade and you need to learn more about it before you make such ridiculous claims.
If food is often left on plates - - it is either too much food, or lousy tasting food - - and the restaurant should either put less, or make it taste better.
religious reasons while the rest of the dish is perfectly healthy and koshire. Only charge
those few who intentionally and overtly "stockpile" their plates and then waste the food,
not even requesting a doggie bag. Those individules do need to be addressed somehow.
As for the rest of us, we're not purposefully wasting food, and therefore don't deserve to
be sanctioned for the same in any way whatsoever. Let the remainder of us be.
problem with taking the food that one cab't eat,home with you? Ever hear of "Doggy Bags"?
Back to the subject at hand, if I've already paid for it, then I shouldn't have to pay again.