The new regulations are implemented, is your takeaway "locked"?
Our reporter Yang Tianyue Zhang Nan intern reporter Xia Hua
The "Internet Catering Service Catering Safety Management Specification" issued by the Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau was officially implemented yesterday. The new regulations require that packaged meals should be sealed with take-out packaging seals or disposable sealing outer packaging bags.
The reporter visited and found that many businesses have consciously sealed their takeaways, and takeaway platforms are also actively promoting and urging businesses to seal takeaways.
Merchants seal takeaways in various ways
Yesterday at noon, the reporter noticed at the hometown chicken meal outlet of Guorui Shopping Center that when packing take-out meals, the staff first wrapped the lid of each meal box with plastic wrap, and then put the meal box in the packaging bag. , bind with a stapler together with the receipt, and finally put a sealing strip on the pocket.
The green seal is marked with the words "Sealed after serving, please reject if the label is damaged".
In some food court stalls and street shops, it is more common to use plastic wrap and staples to seal.
A clerk at a Mala Tang stall in a food city near Shuangjing said that the main purpose of wrapping the lid tightly with plastic wrap is to prevent the soup from leaking and spilling.
"I don't know if there are new regulations, but we have always sealed it like this. If the plastic wrap is opened halfway, it will be difficult to wrap it back into its original shape," said the clerk.
Large chain restaurant companies have more detailed sealing methods for takeaways.
McDonald's and Quanjude both use special stickers to seal; Starbucks take-out bags are affixed with double-sided tape; HEYTEA affixes a unified label to the mouth of the take-out packaging bags and expressly reminds them; Haidilao adds a disposable package to each delivery box. lock catch.
The reporter asked a merchant specializing in the sale of customized take-out seals on the Taobao platform, and learned that the price of customized seals is 50 yuan for 1,000 pieces and 200 yuan for 10,000 pieces, that is to say, the unit price of each seal is between 0.02 yuan and 0.05 yuan. between.
Universal sealing stickers are cheaper, with a price of about 0.008 yuan to 0.015 yuan each.
The platform will improve the complaint mechanism
Yesterday morning, the morning meeting of Meituan Takeaway at Shifoying Distribution Station in Chaoyang District was held in the WeChat group as usual.
On the first day of the implementation of the new regulations for takeout seals, the station manager Yin Shi immediately popularized the specific regulations of the new regulations to more than 50 riders.
"If the rider finds that the meal is not sealed during the process of picking up the meal, he must remind the merchant." Yin Shi said.
The relevant person in charge of Meituan Takeaway in Beijing said that the platform is currently actively guiding takeaway operators to use takeaway seals as soon as possible, distributing them free of charge to some catering merchants in offline publicity activities, and launching food safety seals on the merchant-side APP service market, takeaways Operators can purchase by themselves.
"At present, many merchants have begun to buy from online shopping platforms, or customize their own takeaway seals, but some merchants do not yet understand the new regulations." The above-mentioned person in charge said that Meituan will send multiple rounds of push to all merchants through the system background in the near future. It will also establish and improve the consumption evaluation and complaint handling mechanism for the use of catering takeaway seals.
"If a customer finds that the merchant has not stamped the seal as required after receiving the takeaway, they can give feedback through the app."
Ele.me has also advocated and urged takeaway catering merchants to use food safety seals in accordance with the new regulations through various online and offline forms.
Recently, the Beijing Consumers Association, Beijing Fengtai District, Haidian District Municipal Supervision Bureau, Beijing Catering Association and other relevant departments have jointly customized more than 2 million copies of "food safety seals", which are successively targeted at Yoshinoya, Yunhai Cuisine, Gua Catering companies such as Buxiabu will distribute them free of charge.
More tightly sealed takeaways
On the first day of the implementation of the new regulations, many riders found that there seemed to be more merchants using seals.
Yesterday at noon, Liu Wei, a Meituan rider delivering delivery near Beiguan in Tongzhou, delivered more than 20 takeout orders, a dozen of which were strictly sealed. Most of the plastic bags were sealed with tape, and most of the paper bags were ordered Book pins are sealed at the pocket.
During dinner yesterday, Ele.me rider Master Han delivered 15 orders in the Shuangjing area, of which only 1 order was not sealed.
"There are very few take-out seals. Most of them are packed in non-woven bags. They are all ordered at the mouth of the bag with a stapler to prevent the meal from being opened in the middle." Master Han said.
policy analyzing
Sealed is safe and fresh
As the city's local standard, the "Internet Catering Service Catering Safety Management Regulations" was implemented yesterday. The new regulations that "can not be restored after opening" seals or "one-time sealed outer packaging bags" for takeaway packaging have become the most popular The focus of consumers and businesses.
One of the highlights of the new regulations is that it can prevent takeaway meals from being "manipulated" during the delivery process.
The new regulations require that packaged food containers should be sealed or sealed; take-out packaging seals or a one-time-sealed outer packaging bag should be used.
During the distribution process, the outer packaging of food should not be opened, and the distribution should be terminated if food contamination occurs.
The second highlight is that food preparation time is provided with the meal.
Online catering service providers shall provide food-related information such as food preparation time and recommended consumption time limit with meals.
"The new regulations require that the sealing cannot be restored once it is opened. The sealing method that can achieve this effect is acceptable, and from the perspective of industry development, it will not increase the cost of enterprises." Fu Longcheng, president of the China Cuisine Association, one of the drafting units of the new regulations Say.