Xiamen set up a "light cavalry" to supervise civilized dining

Source: Taiwan Straits Network

■ The "Civilized Table" sign urges consumers to avoid food waste. Photo by Chen Lixin

According to the Xiamen Evening News on October 29, 2019, walking into restaurants and restaurants, all kinds of "civilized dining" and "strict economy" related slogans and logos, propaganda color pages can be seen everywhere, the electronic display screen scrolls with the civilized dining table initiative, and the table is placed with public chopsticks and spoons... Every detail reminds customers of a civilized meal at all times.

Our city is striving to create a national civilized model city and a national food safety demonstration city. The Municipal Bureau of Commerce continued to advocate the concept of civilized dining table to the whole society, publicize the new trend of civilized dining table online and offline, oppose food waste, and guide industry associations to issue initiatives to catering service units to coordinate the implementation of normalized epidemic prevention and control and business development.

Explore and innovate And introduce new measures to practice strict economy

The city's catering service units have taken innovative measures, such as the wisdom canteen "punch card brush face inspection plate", the evaluation table civilization pacesetter, the disc saving exchange canteen voucher, the establishment of a "food bank", etc., with practical actions to cherish food, effectively reduce waste.

The "taste of home" of the institutional catering enterprise not only uses table sticks, posters, LED screens, etc. to publicize civilized dining and "disc action", but also strictly saves and stops waste through various effective measures. Yan Hongjun, executive deputy general manager of Xiamen Home Taste Catering Management Co., Ltd., introduced that the enterprises and school canteens they operate, from the back kitchen to the front desk, pay great attention to food conservation, and the back kitchen strictly follows the food safety specifications in the handling of raw materials and scraps, and must make the best use of them.

"For example, after the skin of cucumber and carrot is peeled, it will be used as a freshly squeezed juice material after washing, soaking baking soda, etc.; after washing and marinating, the skin of white radish becomes another flavored side dish." He said.

In the company's buffet canteen, "taste of home" and cooperative enterprises jointly develop effective measures, number on the table and fix the staff dining position to achieve real-name dining, the end of the daily meal by a special person supervision and inspection, for employees who can "disc", the next day the meal will reward fruit or drinks, for employees who have many serious wasteful behaviors, the enterprise sends special personnel to criticize and educate them.

In restaurants and business district restaurants, service staff will remind consumers to order and pack leftovers in moderation, and many restaurants provide "one-person food", "small dishes" and "half-part dishes". Institutional catering companies have also added small grams of heavy steamed buns (55 grams) to the supply, and added tools for "even rice" in the place where the rice is taken.

Stick with something

Increase the popularity of civilized tables

As early as June 2012, Xiamen Launched the "Civilized Table Action", and the Municipal Bureau of Commerce actively carried out relevant work synchronously, successively formulating and issuing the "Xiamen Catering Service Units to Stop Catering Waste Work Guidelines (Trial)", "Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Other 16 Departments Notice on Resolutely Stopping Catering Waste", etc., through normative guidelines, coordinating multi-departmental joint efforts to stop catering waste.

In recent years, through the multi-dimensional three-dimensional model of "government + industry association + business + mass + media", the civilized table action has been continuously promoted and the results have been obvious. This month, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce guided the Municipal Catering Industry Association and the Municipal Federation of Commerce to jointly issue an initiative to the catering service units, from the aspects of meticulous epidemic prevention and control, food safety to be guaranteed, flow restriction prevention and control in place, civilized dining to be implemented, staff management to be strengthened, and publicity and emergency response to be taken into account, and called on catering service units to coordinate the implementation of normalized epidemic prevention and control and operation and management.

The Municipal Bureau of Commerce also actively carries out inspection and supervision to urge catering enterprises to implement civilized tables and stop catering waste. Since the beginning of this year, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce has set up a "civilized table action light cavalry", walked into the city's major business circles and key catering service units to strengthen supervision and publicity and popularization of the law, and comprehensively and deeply promoted the civilized table, opposing food waste, disc action, rejecting wild meat and healthy meal sharing action of public chopsticks and spoons. According to statistics, from January to September, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce has organized 42 on-site supervision and 113 supervision of catering enterprises.

Under the guidance of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, industry associations have also played a full role in continuously carrying out various forms of theme activities to stop catering waste in the industry and promote industry self-discipline. According to statistics, at present, the association has distributed more than 50,000 "civilized table" tip boards and 10,000 posters in the city's catering enterprises free of charge.

(Reporter Zhang Jingwei Correspondent Lin Wenjian)