Will providing small portions of dishes in a hotel affect business?

Yes, but we must actively promote it. Cafeterias, hotels and other places have long been the worst hit areas for food waste. Especially in hotels and restaurants, the waste is even more surprising. On the one hand, customers have personal reasons. For example, some customers are afraid of "losing face" when entertaining guests at the hotel, so no matter how many people attend the banquet, there is a large table full of dishes. As a result, when the banquet was over, more than half of the food was left, and they watched helplessly as the waiter poured all the leftovers into the swill bucket. This is a typical case of "slap in the face and gain weight". Not only will it kill your face, it will also create a huge waste. On the other hand, there are also hotel reasons. Hotels are obliged to remind customers to "order as needed", but many hotels are worried that customers not ordering enough will affect economic efficiency, and allow customers to "order too much", resulting in a lot of food waste.

In recent years, with the introduction of the Anti-Food Waste Law, although various new measures have been introduced to combat food waste, such as ordering on-demand meals, reward CDs, packaging leftovers, etc., due to Just based on the "advocacy" level, whether it is corporate canteens or hotel restaurants, waste has not been eradicated.

Restaurants and hotels provide consumers with “side dishes” to choose from based on their consumption needs, which is a great way to reduce waste. "Small portions" can help diners, especially when the number of people dining is small, not only to taste more dishes, but also to avoid waste caused by excessive portions, which is in line with the current initiative of "enforce conservation and oppose waste" , and also greatly improved consumers’ catering civilization. Offering “side dishes” is a win-win initiative that deserves praise and promotion.

1. China Consumer Association promotes "small portions" and "half portions" On March 13, the China Consumers Association joined forces with the China Restaurant Association, China Nutrition Association, and China Baked Goods and Sugar Industry Association Seven industry associations, associations and chambers of commerce, including China Packaging Federation, China Chain Store Association, Internet Society of China and China Electronic Commerce Association, jointly issued an initiative. Specifically, it advocates operators to quantify the weight and volume of food sold, mark the main flavor characteristics, transportation and storage requirements, and focus on promoting "expressing the weight (volume) of food ordered online" to better protect consumers' Right to know; by subdividing catering units, actively promote "small portions" and "half portions", and in response to the waste of staple food in takeout ordering scenarios, accelerate the promotion of "small portions" and "half portions", and more Good protection of consumers' right to choose; "Being able to clearly mark prices" means not inducing consumers to over-consumption and better protecting consumers' right to fair transactions. In terms of business processes and take-out links, suggestions were also made to encourage catering take-out platforms to combine dynamic ordering data information, publish ordering and reminder information for the entire ordering process, and advocate appropriate ordering and green consumption. In addition, qualified platforms and catering operators are also encouraged to launch the "automatic food quantity reminder" function in the online ordering process. After setting the number of diners, this function will give meal quantity tips based on different dining situations to help consumers make choices. The takeout platform has small plates, but no weights are indicated. It is rare to find half-sized dishes

2. A small portion of takeout from a restaurant in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. A reporter from Modern Express opened the takeout platform and found that many merchants have launched small portions of dishes. A Jiangsu and Zhejiang restaurant in Xuanwu District, Nanjing marked a small portion of its dishes on the takeout platform. The first item sold in the store is chicken feathers (small portion), marked for one person and priced at 12 yuan. The entire chicken-feather dish is labeled "about 500 grams" and costs 25 yuan. The price of a small portion of pickled fish is 38 yuan, and the price of a full portion is 68 yuan. Weight is marked as a box, "grams" are unmarked. △ A reporter from a Jiangsu and Zhejiang restaurant who took out a small portion asked the person in charge of the store about this issue, but she couldn’t tell the difference between the size of this portion and the size of this one. Another brand restaurant introduced half a chicken in the small portion. , weighing approximately 380 grams. The weight of a whole chicken is approximately 700 grams. A small portion of pickled fish costs 25 yuan, and the weight is about 200 grams. The specific ingredients are also marked in detail, including 100 grams of black fish fillets and 55 grams of pickled fish. . .

The whole pickled fish is priced at 45 yuan, with a weight of about 250 grams, black fish fillet 200 grams, and sauerkraut 110 grams. On another takeaway platform, the reporter found that some merchants had marked the weight when launching side dishes, but most of them did not mark the weight. "Small" and "half" distinguish. A reporter from Modern Express is located in the Xinjiekou area of ??Nanjing. When he searched for keywords such as "snacks" and "half meal" on the takeout platform, there was only one light food restaurant. Three-color brown rice, 200 grams, sells for 6.2 yuan, with monthly sales of 18 pieces; half of three-color brown rice, about 100 grams, sells for 4 yuan, with monthly sales of 13 pieces. "The amount of rice in each takeaway shop is different, some are not enough, and some are too much." Xiao Li, who works near Xinjiekou, often sells takeaways with his colleagues. "Sometimes, I look at the pictures sent by other netizens to see how much rice is there and whether it is enough. If the rice is very big, I will order a portion of rice and share it with my colleagues." The commercial takeout group has a demand for side dishes, and the order volume Gao "We noticed that takeout orders are different from people dining in restaurants. Most of them are single or two people, and they have demand for small portions." 3. The owner of an online restaurant in Nanjing's Qinhuai District told reporters that since October last year Since then, the store has set up a small portion section on its takeout platform, offering smaller versions of famous dishes such as Thai chili potato shreds and pickled pepper chicken gizzards.