3 ms·
What the article misses is what replaces dining trays. You still have plates, right? Or is it shifting to single use containers?
by dijonman2 4y ago
What the article misses is what replaces dining trays. You still have plates, right? Or is it shifting to single use containers?
- foobarian 4y agoHopefully not plastic/styro plates.
- jaywalk 4y agoI had the same thought. I think they just make the students carry the plates without a tray?
- bombcar 4y agoExactly, and they buried at the bottom: > A 2015 study found that trayless dining decreased the percentage of diners who took salad by 65.2 percent but did not decrease the percentage who took dessert. Can students have their cake and eat it, too? Yes — just not off a tray. So food waste may be down, but I bet food waist is up! I think going back to the plate-trays as seen in the first picture might be more useful, defined sizes for various things, and no plates or bowls at all. Then you're just washing one item instead of multiple.
- fisxo 4y agoExactly. A few paragraphs in I started skimming for some mention of what they replaced trays with. There was nothing. When I went to university there were plastic plates, which amounts to the same thing as trays in regard to the cleaning that the article talks about. Are they using paper dishes? Having students supply their own?
- secabeen 4y agoNo no. The idea is that before, you had plates and bowls sitting on top of a tray. All had to be washed and disinfected. Now you don't have the tray, the students carry their plates in their hand directly. No tray to wash.