Celebrities can’t just do catering and don’t do their best to make money.
Many “star catering shops” have health problems one after another, experts point out
● In recent years, many celebrities have invested in the catering industry and used their influence to market their brands, from well-known celebrities to online celebrity restaurant owners.
At the same time, the food safety issues of "star restaurants" have been exposed one after another
● The frequent turnovers of “star restaurants” indicate that celebrities urgently need to increase their awareness of food safety and responsibility, and cannot rely solely on fame to attract passengers to make money; regulatory authorities should focus on supervision of “star restaurants”
● Consumers should not blindly pursue “star restaurant”, they need to adhere to the judgment standard based on food quality and service, and actively protect their legal rights after discovering problems
□ Our newspaper trainee reporter Sun Tianjiao
□ Our reporter Chen Lei
Consumers complained four times, reflecting that flies were found in the soup at the spicy hot pot restaurant on Huaihe Road Pedestrian Street in Hefei City, Anhui Province.
On-site inspection by the supervisory authority found that the sanitary conditions of the store were worrying: the food processing operation area was not isolated from the kitchen waste, the finished food and semi-finished products to be eaten were not covered or stamped, and flies were flying.
It is hard to imagine that this is still a "star hot pot restaurant"-Hunan Satellite TV host Du Haitao and Wu Xin once publicly declared that the spicy hot pot restaurant opened as a partnership.
After the hot pot restaurant was exposed, Du Haitao reposted La Dou La Hot Pot's apology statement on Weibo, and said that "do self-examination and self-correction".
This is not the first time a "star restaurant" has a food safety issue.
In recent years, many celebrities have joined the catering industry, from celebrities to online celebrity restaurant owners.
At the same time, a series of food safety issues have been exposed, such as Xue Zhiqian's Shang Shangqian, Chen He's Xian Hezhuang, Bao Beier's La Zhuang hot pot and other restaurants have similar problems.
In an interview with a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily, a number of experts said that celebrity restaurants have the characteristics of low entry barriers and high return rates. However, the frequent turnovers of "star catering shops" indicate that celebrities urgently need to increase their awareness of food safety and responsibility. Only rely on fame to attract passenger flow and make money, and become the shopkeeper in management, food safety and other aspects.
At the same time, the regulatory authorities should focus on the supervision of "star restaurants".
Operating without a license is illegal
Rectification is in place to open
After the problem of the spicy hot pot restaurant was exposed, the affiliated company and Du Haitao responded quickly, but many netizens did not buy it.
Following Du Haitao’s response to Weibo, the most commented netizen @陈昊然 thought: “Isn’t this a problem that should be paid attention to from the beginning? I didn’t pay attention to it if I found it out, and started paying attention to it when I found it out?”
Some netizens are even more surprised: According to public information, the exposed spicy hot pot restaurant applied for a food business license on June 30 this year, and has not yet obtained a food business license.
"Can you open business without a license?" Many netizens asked this question.
"Food safety involves the lives and health of consumers, and there is no tolerance for sloppy." Chen Yinjiang, deputy secretary general of the Consumer Protection Law Research Association of the Law Society of China, said that after consumer complaints, the spicy hot pot restaurant not only failed to converge and was timely. The improvement, instead of continuing to carry out food business activities without obtaining a food business license, until the inspection by the supervisory authority, the rear kitchen flies were still found, indicating that the store’s awareness of food safety and consumer rights protection is very weak.
Chen Yinjiang told reporters that in accordance with the Food Safety Law and related regulations, it is illegal for the store to carry out catering operations without obtaining a food business license.
The store also has problems with non-compliant catering and sanitation and failure to obtain a food business license. It must be thoroughly rectified before it can be reopened.
Professor Ren Chao of the School of Economics and Law of East China University of Political Science and Law said that in accordance with the Regulations on Food Business License Management, local food and drug regulatory authorities and their staff at the county level and above should consciously accept the supervision of food producers and society when performing food production license management duties. .
In response to the unlicensed operation of the hot pot restaurant, the relevant food and drug regulatory authorities should perform their supervisory duties in a timely manner and correct their illegal operations.
Ren Chao believes that for the illegal activities of Ladou Hotpot restaurants that engage in external catering services without obtaining a catering service license in accordance with the law, not only should be ordered to suspend business for rectification, the illegal income should also be confiscated and fined.
Only in this way can it punish and deter unlicensed catering operations.
Star investment in the catering industry
Take the opportunity to grab traffic dividends
In recent years, many celebrities have invested in the catering industry, using their influence to market brands, from well-known celebrities to online celebrity restaurant owners.
However, the rollovers of the "star restaurant" happened one after another.
Bao Beier’s La Zhuang hot pot restaurant was once exposed to the fact that the “air transport of duck blood” was actually pretending to be ox blood.
In response to this, Bao Beier issued a message saying: I am shocked and sorry, because he is not strong in supervision, and he is willing to take full responsibility.
In September 2020, the hot water cups and seasoning bowls used for disinfection in the Shangshangqian hot pot restaurant opened by Xue Zhiqian were randomly inspected and the products were detected with coliform bacteria.
Previously, the catering company involved had been administratively punished for engaging in freshly squeezed juice business activities without obtaining a food business project permit.
According to data released by a commercial inquiry platform in September 2020, more than 30% of star catering companies have experienced operational abnormalities, and more than 10% of related companies have received administrative penalties.
"From the frequent rollover incidents of'star restaurants', it can be seen that the operating conditions of many'star restaurants' are not optimistic." Ren Chao said that due to the busy work of stars, generally they don't have much energy to manage after joining. There are greater risks in subsequent operations.
If celebrities invest in catering stores only for short-term economic benefits or blindly follow suit, it is easy to cause problems such as poor service quality and poor food quality.
Ren Chao believes that since celebrities open stores enjoying the benefits of traffic, they naturally need to bear corresponding responsibilities.
Once a celebrity engages in catering investment, its identity will be transformed into a market entity in the food catering market, and it needs to accept the constraints of market rules and national food safety regulations. Even due to the higher attention of "star catering shops", it will be subject to more public supervision. Strict, and must bear corresponding responsibilities in strict accordance with relevant laws and regulations.
Strengthen daily supervision and inspection
Severe punishment for problems found
Experts also believe that the frequent rollovers of "star restaurants" also expose loopholes in food safety supervision.
Ren Chao believes that the successive incidents of "star restaurants" means that the relevant departments are not fully supervised.
my country has promulgated a series of laws and regulations on the protection of food safety, including the Food Safety Law, and the relevant penalties are relatively severe. The main problem at present is the specific implementation of the law.
In practice, regulatory authorities usually conduct safety inspections on “star restaurants” after food safety incidents occur or consumers report them, which is not conducive to timely detection and prevention of food safety issues.
In Chen Yinjiang's view, the supervision of "star restaurants" is currently mainly regular supervision, and key supervision is rarely carried out.
Chen Yinjiang suggested that the relevant departments should first find and pay attention to the problems of "star restaurants" in a timely manner, strengthen daily supervision and inspection, and once they find problems, they should be resolutely investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law and disclosed to the media; secondly, the "star restaurants" should be listed. The inspection results and illegal activities are included in the food safety credit file and announced to the public, and even reported to the relevant financial institutions; finally, the channels for consumer complaints should be further unblocked to facilitate and encourage consumers to complain and report, and to report to consumers in a timely manner The problem is verified and handled, and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers are protected in accordance with the law.
Ren Chao also believes that due to the high influence and publicity of celebrities’ catering, the food and drug regulatory authorities must increase penalties for food safety issues in accordance with the law, in order to punish and warn celebrities’ catering disorder, and force them to do so. Pay attention to food safety issues.
In addition, consumers should not blindly pursue “star restaurants”. They need to adhere to the judgment standard based on food quality and service, and actively protect their legal rights after discovering problems.