Why do some restaurants charge for sanitized dishes?
The following is the answer to this question. The first point in accordance with the current "Food Sanitation Law", the main body of supervision is only restaurants, and disinfection of tableware companies are not in the scope, which also brings difficulties to the supervision. Mandatory consumption makes people uncomfortable today, in some restaurants, hotels, consumers will find mandatory consumption everywhere, corkage fee, room fee, air-conditioning fee, chopsticks fees and other ride-along charges more and more numerous. Some restaurants do not provide napkins, such as customers need, you have to pay for. Why is the phenomenon of mandatory consumption in the catering industry so common? Many people said that the above problems will be encountered as long as into the hotel, definitely belong to the hotel's compulsory sales, make people feel uncomfortable. Although the "Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests Law" has no clear provisions on this, but does not mean that the hotel's practice is reasonable. Compulsory consumption leads to infringement of the consumer's right to choose. Some people believe that now is a market economy, the hotel can set mandatory consumption, but the public has the right to choose or not choose the hotel. Municipal Consumer Association in the case of mandatory consumption can be reported to the Municipal Consumer Association staff said that Article 9 of the Consumer Law, consumers enjoy the right to independently choose goods or services, the hotel in fact, this practice objectively affects the consumer's right to choose. The Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests Act clearly stipulates that consumers "have the right to decide on their own to buy or not to buy any kind of goods, to accept or not to accept any of the services". Catering enterprises forcibly charge "disinfection dishes fee" and other behavior is suspected of compulsory consumption, infringing on the consumer's right to choose. Consumers encountered such a situation can be reported to the industry and commerce or price departments. Minimum consumption is mandatory consumption with the Chinese law firm Lou Hang lawyers believe that the hotel set a minimum consumption behavior belongs to a mandatory consumption, a violation of the principle of fairness of the contract. Lou lawyer said, the hotel for consumers to provide catering services, is a contractual relationship between the two equal civil subjects, enterprises or individuals to open a hotel is an offer, consumers into the hotel to consume with the hotel to form a contractual relationship, the formation of the contract to inform the consumer after the minimum consumption, this behavior is a mandatory consumption, in violation of the principle of fairness of the contract.