A restaurant in central China has apologized to customers for waiting for them to place their orders following the introduction of a nationwide campaign against food waste.
The meat restaurant in the city of Changsha placed two bowls outside its doors and signs that read “be scattered and eager, promote empty plates” and “operation low plate,” the BBC reported.
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It also asked customers to enter their measurements into an app that would recommend courts do, the report said. But social media users criticized the restaurant, with hashtags related to the incident that was viewed more than 300 million times on the Weibo social platform, Agence France-Presse reported.
The nationwide campaign began last week after President Xi Jinping dismissed the amount of food waste in the country as “shocking and distressing” amid rising food prices due to the coronavirus pandemic and recent flooding, the stores reported.
Catering groups in regions in the country encourage groups of customers to order one less plate than the number of dinners to limit waste.
The spokesman asked the restaurant to apologize in a statement online, saying it was “deeply sorry”.
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“Our original intentions were to advocate for stopping waste and ordering food in a healthy way,” the statement said. “We have never forced customers to weigh themselves.”
