A restaurant in central China has apologized for asking customers to weigh themselves ahead of placing their orders following the introduction of a national campaign against food waste. But social media users criticized the restaurant, with hashtags related to the incident viewed over 300 million times on the social platform Weibo, Agence France-Presse reported. The nationwide campaign began last week after President Xi Jinping decried the amount of food waste in the country as "shocking and distressing" amid rising food prices due to the coronavirus pandemic and recent flooding, the outlets reported. Catering groups in regions across the country urged groups of customers to order one fewer plate than the number of diners to curb waste. “We never forced customers to weigh themselves.”

Source: Fox News August 16, 2020 18:22 UTC