Legal analysis: It is not illegal for restaurants to waste fines. Food waste refers to the failure to make rational use of food that can be safely eaten or drunk according to its functional purpose, including abandonment, reduction of food quantity or quality due to unreasonable use, etc. Any unit or individual who finds food producers and operators have food waste behavior has the right to report to the relevant departments and organs. If a catering service operator fails to take the initiative to remind consumers to prevent food waste, the market supervision and management department of the local people's government at or above the county level or the department designated by the local people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections and give a warning.

Legal basis: Article 28 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Anti-Food Waste violates the provisions of this law, and catering service operators fail to take the initiative to remind consumers to prevent food waste, and the market supervision and management department of the local people's government at or above the county level or the department designated by the local people's government at or above the county level shall order them to make corrections and give them a warning.

in violation of the provisions of this law, catering service operators induce and mislead consumers to order too much food and cause obvious waste, and the market supervision and administration department of the local people's government at or above the county level or the department designated by the local people's government at or above the county level shall order them to make corrections and give them a warning; Refuses to correct, a fine of more than one thousand yuan and ten thousand yuan.

in violation of the provisions of this law, food producers and business operators cause serious food waste in the process of food production and marketing, and the market supervision and management department of the local people's government at or above the county level or the department designated by the local people's government at or above the county level shall order them to make corrections. If they refuse to make corrections, they shall be fined from 5,111 yuan to 51,111 yuan.