From Feb. 5, 2021, to Feb. 20, the draft regulations on stopping food and beverage waste in Beijing are open for public comment on the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee's web portal and Capital Window.

In particular, for the behavior of inducing customers to order more food, the draft for comment puts forward, catering service operators should express the service items and charges, and shall not set unfair and unreasonable trading conditions to induce and mislead consumers to order more than the amount of food.

The market supervision and management department shall order correction and give a warning to those who violate the regulations and cause obvious waste; if they refuse to make corrections, they shall be fined more than 1,000 yuan and less than 10,000 yuan.

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The Exposure Draft makes it clear: Encouraging takeout platforms to use good information technology

The Exposure Draft makes it clear that online food service platforms, networked food and beverage The network food service platform, the network food service operators should be a prominent way to prompt consumers on-demand, appropriate amount of ordering, in the meal browsing page labeling meal portion, specifications, recommended number of people and other information, to promote the small size of the meal, optional packages. Takeaway delivery should use standardized meal boxes, meal bags and heat preservation, clean delivery containers.

Encouraging online catering service platforms to use information technology to analyze catering consumption demand, and providing information technology services for online catering service operators to develop and improve meals, prepare meals on demand, and stop and reduce waste.

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