Charge extra money for not eating all the food from your plate

[Davey]

A couple of days I read this article, and it makes me wonder why other restaurants aren't doing this yet. We waste so much food while others are dying because they don't have enough food, charging money for this would be a great idea to raise people their awareness about it and let them care more about their money as well.

Why wouldn't restaurants charge for it? and do you think they should?

Could Charging People for Uneaten Food in Restaurants Help Us Stop Wasting It? | Eating on GOOD

 

[thomas]

Basically a brilliant idea, but I am not sure about the legal ramifications. On what grounds can they charge their clientele extra?

Slightly related: I have always wondered how supermarkets and convenience stores handle the tons of perishables they must be discarding every day...

 

[Davey]

I guess especially places like buffets, if they still have more than 200 gram or a certain amount of food left on their plates. Another question will be, what if the food is just not good.

Talking about convenience stores, I am glad they put their prices down after a certain time on their food. Besides that... mmm that's a good question.

 

[Mike Cash]

The person is already paying for more than he consumed, so the economic penalty is already there and accepted.

If people cleaning their plates would do anything to feed the starving elsewhere then SuperSize America would have solved the problem by now.

The problem is not an inadequate distribution of food in the world but an inadequate distribution of democracy and economic freedom and opportunity.

 

[Davey]

of course the customer is already paying more than he maybe should for the food, but it sounds good to me that the person that is wasting food has to pay more. If people have to pay for it, at least they wouldn't waste it.

 

[Mike Cash]

Maybe we could charge more for people who own more than two changes of clothes or two pairs of shoes. Or people whose height or any other trait we decide we don't like. Let's punish everybody who exercises a free choice we don't agree with.

And let's not act surprised when we find out it is them deciding what to do to us.

 

[Grandpa Frank]

In Japan ????

Do they have such a thing as a "DOGGY BAG" in Japan?? We can take home what we don't eat at the restaurant in a styroform container in a bag. Often people say they want the leftovers for their pet, but they really are the ones that eat it.
Also , here "some/a few" restaurants and grocery stores give their excess food at the end of the day or the outdated but still good food to homeless shelters or food banks(to help the poor). Many do not because they are worried about being sued by people trying to get money for nothing.

Uncle Frank

 

[ewww]

I can not understand why customer is responsible for food vasting?

I see here a conspiracy: evil restaurant owners are selling food for pity customers. Definitely, they are plotting something bad against world and democracy. It is time to charge restaurants for selling more than one shrimp into one hands.

 

[jeisan]

Also I've noticed many restaurants in the states have huge portions. So not necessarily the customers fault for not being able to clear the plate.

 

[Davey]

I am starting to agree with you about a regular restaurant but how about buffets? Getting another bowl of shrimps oeven though you haven't finished your potato salad and chicken rice yet and you know that you are full...

 

[Mike Cash]

I am starting to agree with you about a regular restaurant but how about buffets? Getting another bowl of shrimps oeven though you haven't finished your potato salad and chicken rice yet and you know that you are full...

Many places will charge extra for such obvious wastage. Or they in some other way have figured a certain amount into their prices to cover their losses on customers like that. After all, they don't give a discount to buffet customers who eat sparingly. That's all part of the system.

At any rate you should give more thought to the purpose behind your proposals. You've moved from a basis of social engineering to a basis of simple business management now, yet for the purpose of achieving the same apparent goal. Yet no amount of reducing food wastage in Country X is going to result in increased food distribution in Country Y. You start with the premise of there being a global inequity in food distribution....something mothers have guilted their children with for decades....but which is a fallacy. A child in Somalia doesn't starve because I didn't finish my lima beans, and they wouldn't gave gotten some lima beans if I hadn't put so many on my plate.