[Explanation] "If you take it with a degree, if you use it with restraint, you will always be enough." In Shanghai, where there are many catering companies, what is the status of "civilization on the tip of the tongue"? On August 18, the reporter visited a number of companies in Shanghai and found that merchants and e-commerce platforms in Shanghai are actively acting in civilized catering and rejecting food waste.

　　At 10 o’clock in the morning that day, although it has not yet arrived, the back kitchen of a restaurant in Minhang, Shanghai is already busy, especially due to the recent hot sales of "small portions", the back kitchen side dishes need to be prepared in advance. Dishes are weighed and prepared. As early as the end of last year, this restaurant tried to launch the "Small Dish" campaign. Many of the "Small Dish" dishes were among the top five in-store sales and were well received by customers.

　　Recently, the restaurant has also participated in the "CD Action" launched by a certain take-out platform. Not only has the quantity of dishes and the selling price been reduced, the take-out fee can also be reduced to a certain extent.

　　[Concurrent] Qin Shu, the founder of a hotel

　　(Customer) He can order half as much as possible when there are not many people. For example, our beef was originally eaten for six yuan, but now it is produced with three yuan.

　　[Explanation] "Small dishes" not only allow customers to enjoy more benefits, but also allow businesses to sell more dishes, which can promote food conservation and avoid waste. The person in charge of a food delivery platform said that more than 600,000 merchants have launched "Xiaofencai" on the food delivery platform. Driven by "Xiaofencai", the order volume of these merchants has increased by more than 50%.

　　Recently, a fresh food e-commerce company in Shanghai has also launched a series of "Eat All Meal" products to reduce food waste. One month after its launch, in Shanghai, the sales volume of this series has exceeded 5,000 copies in a single day, becoming one of the fastest growing categories of platform sales.

　　According to Zhao Wentao, the person in charge of the fresh food e-commerce company, he is currently stepping up the development of more new products in the “One Meal” series. In the future, based on the combination of single categories of vegetables, cross-category combinations will be launched, such as vegetable and meat combinations. , Fruit combination.

　　[Concurrent] Zhao Wentao, the person in charge of a fresh food e-commerce company

　　According to the user's purchasing preferences, some combinations of ingredients that users often buy are combined. For example, the ground three fresh combination, we will put a potato, an eggplant and two green peppers in it, which can fully meet the user's demand for basic ingredients for a dish.

　　[Explanation] It is reported that since 2014, the Shanghai Catering Industry Association has actively organized and promoted the creation of green restaurants in Shanghai's catering industry. As of the end of May 2020, nearly 3,000 green restaurants have been listed.

　　Xu Mingrui and Li Qiuying report from Shanghai

Editor in charge: [Fang Jialiang]