It is legal for McDonald's to suddenly charge users for disposable tableware. It's not that businesses want to increase their income on a whim. This topic has to start with the Shenzhen Municipal Domestic Waste Classification Management Regulations. In order to encourage and encourage residents to use non-disposable tableware, the regulations clearly stipulate that catering enterprises are not allowed to provide users with disposable tableware free of charge, including disposable chopsticks, packaging boxes, disposable knives and forks, and so on. So McDonald's is just following the rules. Let's take a look at the specific background of this topic. Mcdonald's statement on the charge of disposable tableware

Dear customer:

According to Article 46, Paragraph 1 of Shenzhen Municipal Regulations on the Classification and Management of Domestic Waste, catering service providers are not allowed to provide disposable chopsticks, forks, spoons and other tableware to consumers free of charge. Please choose whether you need disposable tableware when you purchase. If necessary, we will charge you for each order in 1.5 yuan. At the same time, the restaurant will provide disposable tableware according to the product demand of the order user. The original intention of charging for disposable tableware

We can see from the regulations on the classified management of domestic waste in Shenzhen that this regulation was issued to encourage consumers to use recyclable tableware, thus reducing the generation of white waste. However, McDonald's seems to have deviated from the original intention of the regulation, which is very simple. It only charges for disposable tableware, but it does not provide corresponding substitutes, such as sterilized chopsticks and tableware provided by other catering industries.

It is totally unnecessary to do formalism just to follow the prescribed procedures. Many users regard this behavior as a unilateral profit-making behavior of McDonald's.

From the perspective of rules and regulations, McDonald's has laws to follow, and there is no problem in doing so. However, from the user's feelings, this practice completely deprives users of their right to choose. At least, we have no choice, either accepting 1.5 yuan's charges, or grasping with their hands or simply choosing not to spend.