Only 15.5% of Italians take home uneaten food at the restaurant, mainly due to "a form of psychological embarrassment", but 74% of Italians say they are in favor of the possibility of taking home food they were unable to get. to consume;
indeed, for 22% of them it is even an important variable in choosing a restaurant.
If we consider wine, the percentage of those who take it home drops to 11.8%.
However, almost all restaurateurs (91.8%) are equipped to allow this.
This is what emerges from an investigation into the request for the Doggy bag made by Fipe Confcommercio and Comieco and presented today in a press conference entitled "Food waste: in restaurants, the Doggy Bag is called a filler".
The data highlight signs of change "that are still too timid in an era in which attention to waste, especially food, is increasingly high and 36% of family spending on food products passes outside the home" say the Italian Federation of Public Businesses , and the National Consortium for the Recovery and Recycling of Cellulose-based Packaging.
Among the reasons that slow down the request for the leftover package there are also inconvenience (19.5%) and indifference (18.3%).
On this occasion, Fipe and Comieco renewed the collaboration which in 2019 promoted the "Rimpiattino" project - the Italian version of the "Doggy Bag" - through which iconic paper containers were distributed to the restaurants participating in the initiative precisely to bring home food and wine not consumed at the table.
In total, to date, there have been 24,000 "Rimpiattini" distributed among 875 restaurants in 22 cities.
The new functionality of the "Sprecometro" app was also presented, which measures food waste outside the home, the result of a collaboration between Fipe and the Waste Watcher International Observatory.
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