Stop food and beverage waste from being included in the national standard for credit evaluation of hotel industry

It was learned from the State Administration of Market Supervision that the General Administration of Market Supervision (Standards Committee) recently approved the publication of the Standard for Credit Rating Evaluation of Hotel Industry, which will guide the majority of hotel operators to operate in good faith and expand quality supply. The standard puts forward that hotel enterprises should formulate and effectively operate the system of saving resources, reducing the use of disposable plastic products and stopping food and beverage waste, and emphasizes providing employees with knowledge training on stopping waste and garbage classification every year, so as to further promote hotel enterprises to establish a long-term mechanism to stop food and beverage waste, fulfill their social responsibility of saving, and realize the green transformation of the industry.

In order to promote the high-quality development of the hotel industry, the Code for Credit Rating of Hotel Industry has established a credit rating index system including five elements: comprehensive quality, financial status, management level, enterprise competition and social credit, including 23 secondary indicators and 48 tertiary indicators, and determined the credit rating of the hotel industry as "three grades and nine grades".

According to reports, the General Administration of Market Supervision attaches great importance to and continuously promotes the standardization work related to stopping food waste. In 2121, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism jointly issued the Opinions on Promoting Catering Economy and Opposing Catering Waste by Standardization. In recent years, four national standards, including the Guide to Supply Chain Management of Catering Industry and the Specification for Information Description of Takeaway Meals, have been issued, and the requirements for stopping catering waste have been incorporated into relevant national standards such as tourist hotels and resorts.

In the next step, the General Administration of Market Supervision will continue to promote the revision of national standards such as anti-food waste, green take-out and central kitchen in government canteens, constantly improve the standard system of economical catering, and create a new consumption trend of "shame on waste and pride on saving" in the whole society.