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In South Korea, when you order from certain places for certain types of food, they come in actual containers/tupperwares that you just leave outside your door a
by siedes 7y ago
In South Korea, when you order from certain places for certain types of food, they come in actual containers/tupperwares that you just leave outside your door and someone from the restaurant will come pick it up at some point.
I don't see it working in the U.S. though, since people would probably be stealing them and other horrific stuff. Just a very different culture...
- standardUser 7y agoGreen Tiffin is US a meal delivery service that uses reusable containers that you rinse out and then return at the next delivery. It seems to work just fine, nothing "horrific" about it.
- ggm 7y agoThe key word here is "return" because the Korean model is not to return the dishes, its to leave them to be collected. The horrific part, is an imputed risk the dishes in america become stolen, used as weapons, frisbees..
- microcolonel 7y ago> The horrific part, is an imputed risk the dishes in america become stolen, used as weapons, frisbees.. I think the primary schools in east asia, excluding China for obvious reasons, are the birthplace [0] of a form of civic cohesion that the U.S. and Canada (virtually the same culture, despite what people say) lack. We have the rule of law and consequences, and that's a good start, but there's a missing piece. [0] in addition to the home, I guess, but good luck improving that first.
- siedes 7y agoWe have laws to punish bad behavior after it happens, while they have a culture that reinforces good behavior from the start. Nowadays, it seems like trying to enforce good/proper behavior in the U.S. would be taken as an affront to personal freedom or "forcing one's culture onto others", so perhaps we need a different way to incentivize good behavior in this multicultural society where it's almost a sin to want and expect others to do something for the good of anyone but themselves.
- dd36 7y agoMake a new culture.
- siedes 7y agoHow do we convince other cultures to adapt to the new culture though? Any such efforts would be drowned out by cries of racism and cultural erasure or whatever they're calling it nowadays.
- microcolonel 7y agoLive better lives for yourselves, conspicuously.
- jldugger 7y agoIf they're stolen, they'll at least be reused, right?
- ben-schaaf 7y agoWhy reuse them when whoever you stole them from will have fresh ones tomorrow?
- evandev 7y agoIt is reduce, reuse, recycle in that order for a reason. If it is stolen the restaurant will need to buy another set. And reusing is worse than reducing.
- avip 7y agoI'd agree the risk of dishes being used as frisbees, though low, is likely higher in NA than in Asia.
- bigDICK 7y agoMeal plans start at $11 per meal. That would be close to $1000 a month. I don't think the public will be signing up anytime soon.