From a hygienic point of view, free paper napkins are roughly made and pose certain safety risks, so Xi'an restaurants hardly provide free paper napkins. In order to save costs, the raw materials of poor quality napkins are usually recycled waste paper, and a large amount of bleach and industrial talcum powder is added in the production. The most dramatic is that the paper has to be cut into sections with a saw blade before it can be used.

Whenever you tear a long slip after eating, this kind of tissue paper with elasticity will also tense up a lot of white powder, the texture is extremely poor. In the words of many old Shaanxi: "This paper can wipe the mouth? Estimates can only be used to wipe the ditch." Regulatory laboratory test proved that the harm is greater than the benefit.

Beginning in 2013, because many street stores provide free napkins are this kind of paper, food and drug regulators have received many complaints and reports, and Xi'an has carried out a special inspection for this. In order to avoid being fined, the free inferior napkins disappeared from the tables of most restaurants and were replaced by paid paper napkins. Cost is also a factor, as seen in some reports. Some merchants said that the price of paper napkins that can meet the requirements of the relevant departments is a bit high, taking into account the cost of doing business so they do not provide free napkins.

On the other hand, waste is too serious. Back in the day, many diners used the kind of cheap rolls of paper with water sleeves so long; sometimes, some diners (including children) especially like to draw paper, a meal half a packet of paper, affecting not only the business mentality of the service, but also will affect other diners.

In fact, wasteful usage is only a minority. The current economy and consumption levels are not the same as in the past.

To this, from the public and even provincial and municipal people's congresses have called for. Napkin problem, reflecting the service environment, tourism environment and even the image of Xi'an. From a small point of view, this is the level of development of the service industry in Xi'an and the level of urban management epitomized; from a large level, it is also the problem of asymmetry between Xi'an's urban service industry and itself.

Bureau of Industry and Commerce answer can be seen, whether the restaurant to provide free paper towels, there is no legal mandatory one, it depends on the service industry awareness and attitude. Today, the level of the service industry has become an important symbol to measure the degree of socialization of production and the degree of development of the market economy. The napkin's are small, but in the city's publicity and marketing of itself as an IP, these tiny details often determine the audience's standard of judgment.

But again, with the Qin hegemony, Han and Tang majesty, should not be able to spare a few napkins after meals. Similarly the development of the industry will not regress because of free!