A city-based caterer has been directed by a consumer forum to pay Rs 30,000 as compensation to one of his customers for not preparing food for a wedding according to the menu and wasting the ingredients provided. ...
09:32 AM, Feb 24, 2013
New Delhi: Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country. It is an extraordinary paradox created by a rigid regime of subsidies for grain farmers, a woeful lack of storage facilities and an inefficient, corruption-plagued public distribution system that fails millions of impoverished people. And it...
02:40 PM, Jul 02, 2012
London: A Chinese restaurant in Britain is offering an all-you-can-eat buffet but fines customers 20 if they leave food on their plates as 'wastage'. Managers at the Kylin Buffet in South Shields, have put up a notice urging diners to eat up all their food or face the penalty charge. The policy has outraged one mother who was told to pay the 20 after she, along with her 10-year-old son...
09:34 AM, May 18, 2012
