Dining out, environmentally: customers have started bringing their own takeout containers to restaurants
is aimed at convincing diners to bring their own reusable containers. Its website conveniently includes a store with a list of recommended reusable products., the industry trade publication, to ask if the practice should be allowed."Done properly, guests bringing reusable containers to your restaurant for takeout can be a win-win: you save money on disposables, guests feel better about your green initiatives, and both of you are working together to reduce disposables in the waste stream.
However, Deutsch says restaurant owners have to keep a number of issues in mind."As a restaurateur, you are ultimately responsible for ensuring the safety and sanitation of everything in your kitchen," he says. That's easy with takeout containers that a restaurant orders from a supplier. If they aren't acceptable, the restaurant can just send them back.
It can be uncomfortable to tell a customer that the containers they brought from home don't meet the restaurant's cleanliness standards.If customers bring carryout containers, they should package their own food in the restaurant, not give the containers to servers to take to the kitchen and package it for them.He suggests they sell sturdy takeout packaging that is designed to be reused.
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