A number of hotels in Ji'nan offer frugal menu.
reporter Ma Yunyun / > reporter Xu Jianli
food packaging, hotels have rewarded the provincial capital (Ji'nan) to launch a "frugality menu"
28 day morning, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Tourism Bureau held the national catering industry. Frugal economy, oppose extravagance and waste "work teleconference, advocate dining economy. Prior to that, our province has issued a meal, catering, lodging industry austerity campaign against waste proposal. 28, a reporter found that many hotels have launched a number of measures according to consumer psychology, list a "frugal menu", to guide consumers to reduce waste.
according to the number of people to determine the weight of vegetables
28, many hotels in the provincial capital have been hanging out slogans such as "practising economy". In many measures, many hotels have put the "first knife" down to the point of ordering.
28 on the evening, in the The Royal Hotel kitchen in Ji'nan, the chef is busy preparing for the dinner, but a cook made the same saute yam, but the difference is not small. "The number of customers is different, the component of the food is too small," Zhang you, the general manager of the Imperial Palace catering group, explained that the same dish, 6 people only provided 0.5 cases of dishes, eight or nine people 0.7 cases, the number of words to provide 1 cases, the price of the vegetable will also change accordingly.
"when ordering, we will be controlled by the number of people." Shun and hotel group also launched measures, the group chairman Ren xingben said, for example, 4 people to eat, for example, the suggestion of 4 dishes and 1 soup, some can "remove the whole" point of the dish, recommend customers from the original "share" point to "block" point, "such as chops, according to the point may not finish, we suggest customers according to the number of points. Block. "
with zero points, group banquet, such as wedding banquet, is more astonishing. "This is a common disease. In the past we are always afraid of not leftover food customers," Ren said.
do not wait until the last fish
"61.1% of the service staff think that the main reason for the waste of food is the unreasonable ordering." Wang Rong, an associate professor at the hotel management school of University of Jinan, once led students to investigate the waste of food and beverage consumers in Ji'nan, which has a great relationship with the psychology of "good face" on the table.
it is this kind of psychology that makes a lot of people with a little embarrassment. For this reason, some hotels say they will let the waiter remind the customer to stay in time. "This is not a waste, and the customer is willing to accept it."
23.3% of the surveyed service staff thought the meal sharing system was the best way to solve the waste of food and beverage consumers. Wang Rong said. Zhang friends and also said that in some dining occasions, some people are embarrassed to move chopsticks, maybe the end of the banquet is not full, if the waiter can eat in time, it will allow more people to eat more.
Shun and the International Hotel decided to advance the order of the fish, "the Chinese people to ask for a 'more than a year''s color head, used to last fish, but at that time most people are full, these fish are often dozens, hundreds of dollars, high nutritional value, and can waste the proportion is very high, too bad."
Hotel advocacy table package
in order to encourage more people to join "not to eat package", some hotels launch the "packaging and award" activities, Liangyou Fulin Hotel awards customers with spring culture as the theme of the series of bookmarks. On the 28 day, Mr. Li, a customer who had just received bookmarks, said that although the reward was small, the idea of advocating economy was very good.
customers can get a certain amount of meal vouchers in Shun and international hotels. The Royal Hotel has also launched the "packaging and prize winning system", advocating table table packaging, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of employees to encourage customers to package, the hotel also implements the internal staff saving mechanism, as long as the service room guests package, reward 5 yuan.