Restaurant: Clean Your Plate!

A restaurant at which I won’t be eating:

An Australian restaurateur fed up with the waste left by diners has ordered her customers to eat everything on their plates for their sake of the earth or pay a penalty and not return.

Chef Yukako Ichikawa has introduced a 30 percent discount for diners who eat all the food they have ordered at Wafu, her 30-seat restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, that describes itself as “guilty free Japanese cuisine.”

“To contribute toward creating a sustainable future we request a little more of our guests than most other restaurants,” she says in a list of her restaurant’s policies that is pinned on the door to the eatery.  This list includes finishing all dishes ordered which are organic and free of gluten, dairy, sugar and eggs and the chef and her staff tell people who don’t clear their plates to choose another restaurant next time.

“Finishing your meal requires that everything is eaten except lemon slices, gari (sushi ginger) and wasabi,” says the menu. “Please also note that vegetables and salad on the side are NOT decorations; they are part of the meal too.”

Now, this is a private business and I fully support the right of entrepreneurs to run their establishments as they see fit.  But, even if I weren’t a 20 hour flight away and liked Japanese food, I wouldn’t pay to be treated like a child.  (Indeed, I wasn’t required to clean my plate as a child.)

via J-Walk Blog

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Comments

  1. grampagravy says:

    “Now, this is a private business and I fully support the right of entrepreneurs to run their establishments as they see fit.”

    That ship has sailed.