According to the Xiamen Municipal Food Safety Commission Office on January 9, recently, the Market Supervision Bureau of Xiang'an District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province received consumer complaints, saying that when dining at a hot pot restaurant in Xiang'an District, it was forced to charge 6 yuan per person for the seasoning fee. The law enforcement officers of the Market Supervision Bureau immediately went to investigateIt was found that the hot pot restaurant had indeed violated the law, and it has been investigated and punished in accordance with the law.
It is understood that the hot pot restaurant charges a table seasoning fee of 6 yuan per person for customers who come to the store for consumption, and this item is automatically required on the order interface of the mini program and cannot be deleted. The hot pot restaurant's practice violated the relevant provisions of the "Consumer Rights and Interests Protection of the People's Republic of China" and the "Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China", and infringed on the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. At present, the Xiang'an District Market Supervision Bureau has filed a case for investigation and punishment in accordance with the law.
Recently, the Market Supervision Bureau of Xiang'an District has also organized a special action of "prohibiting the collection of table fees" through a combination of online and offline: **, through the WeChat group to carry out legal popularization publicity; ** Conduct surprise inspections on medium and large catering service units in the jurisdiction. The inspection found that some operators still had the behavior of collecting "table fees" in violation of regulations, and the market supervision departments have filed a case for investigation in accordance with the law.
In response to the "table fee" set up by some restaurants, the Office of the Xiamen Food Safety Commission reminds consumers that they have the right to choose similar paid services, and in case of forced consumption by merchants, they can bravely say "no", or complain to the relevant departments to negotiate a solution.
The Paper noted that the aforementioned incident is not an isolated case. Previously, a college student in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province charged 1 yuan for tableware when he ate in a restaurant, so he packed all 4** and took it away. After the related incident was reported, topics such as "college students who charge for tableware pay one yuan to take it away directly" once aroused heated discussions among netizens.
*: The Paper.