After visiting restaurants and canteensin Jingzhou city, the journalist found that civilized eating habits, such asrestaurant disinfection, temperature measurement of employees, servingchopsticks and spoons, and separate eating, have been gradually accepted bycitizens, and the catering consumption market is gradually recovering.
Eating out: Serving chopsticks and spoonshave become the standard configuration of dining
“Welcome! Please show your health QRcode.” “Please take temperature, and register your personal information.” Thejournalist recently had a meal at a restaurant on the Beihu Road. At theentrance, the journalist was asked to take temperature and disinfect the handswith disposable hand sanitizer at the door before walking in the restaurant.
At the restaurant, citizens all woremasks, and did not take them off until the dishes were served. Diners onseveral dining tables were eating meals, and serving chopsticks and spoons wereput on the tables for them.
“Serving chopsticks and spoons havebecome the standard configuration of dining, and some customers would activelyask the restaurant about this matter as long as they walked in.” A principaltold the journalist that the a round table, which was supposed to accommodate8-10 diners, is only equipped with 4-5 chairs now, and diners must keepdistance of more than 1 meter with each other.
After finishing their meals, mostcustomers choose to make scan-based payments.
Eating at canteens: Separate diningbecomes a new trend
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many officeworkers have changed their way of dining.
On the third floor of Wanda Plaza, thejournalist found that most restaurants have posted the “Disinfected” logo, andmany of them have launched the “contact-free delivery” service, enjoytremendous popularity among office workers.
Ms. Zhang working at a bank in Jingzhousaid the canteen of the bank canceled eating-in, replaced by separate diningthrough take-out service. “Each set meal is separately packed, and the bankstaff eat them in respective seats.” “It feels good, because this can avoid therisk of infection due to personnel gathering,” she added.
After visiting a few enterprises, thejournalist found separate dining has become a new trend among enterprises.Canteens have raised higher requirements to personnel management, environmentalhealth and raw material control, tableware and environmental disinfection, andso forth. Apart from strict disinfection, enterprises have also created filesfor all logistical employees, with one file for one employee, conducted thedynamic follow-up of their health, and implemented the one-day pre-posttemperature measurement and recording twice a day.
Developing a habit: Civilized diningstarts from me
“Eating without gathering has less fun.”“We often forget serving chopsticks while eating.” During an interview, manycitizens still take civilized dining for granted.
The WarmTips on Food Consumption Safety Amid Epidemic Containment, which wereissued by the Jingzhou Municipal Administration for Market Regulation recently,called on citizens to use serving chopsticks and spoons, with one chopstick(spoon) for one dish or two pairs of chopsticks for each diner, so as todevelop a good dining habit of using serving chopsticks and spoons, and lead anew trend of civilized dining tables.
So, how to realize the use of servingchopsticks and spoons and separate dining? A principal from the JingzhouMunicipal Administration for Market Regulation suggested that servingchopsticks and spoons should be different from other personal tableware atrestaurants in terms of color, length, shape or material, so that diners caneasily identify them. For restaurants failing to implement the system ofserving chopsticks and spoons, customers can actively ask for them.