comment: >
  
  Plastic spork manufacturers are rejoicing
context: “Under the new rules, any restaurant with more than 20 seats – including work canteens, bakery chains, fast-food and sushi outlets – will have to provide reusable, washable cups, plates, dishes and cutlery for customers eating in.”
  Post COVID I rarely see people dinning in at fast food restaurants.  I assume the quickest way to become compliant in most locations is to reduce the number of seats to 20. >
  
  “Work canteens” (aka cafeterias) will be a big one. Large manufacturers won’t want to get rid of it, and seats can’t be reduced to less than 20. >
  
  Large cafeterias in France generally have reusable plates and cutlery. It simply saves money. >
  
  Opposite here in the states. Having the disposable plates and cutlery saves on having to pay a dishwasher. >
  
  I don't think I have ever been to a cafeteria here in the states that didn't have reusable plates and cups. Schools, universities, hospitals, even commercial ones like K&W cafeteria or Ikea. >
  
  I work at a large (Fortune 100) manufacturer in the Midwest. Plates are compostable, cutlery is plastic. Cafeteria is contracted out to Aramark across all their US locations. >
  
  They've come out with better straws recently that don't turn into sog but still biodegradable.  Paper plates are phenomenal now.  Why haven't they come out with biodegradable cutlery yet?  Is that a thing in some places?  I have never seen them anywhere when I've traveled. >
  
  Recently ate in a cafeteria at a museum. Cutlery was biodegradable >
  
  And now restaurants will offer limited edition forks and spoons for sale, and customers will collect a few dozen before throwing them out.  Just like with the Dickies cups and KFC containers I've accumulated over the years. >
  
  So back to those fake frosted plastic sofa cups you used to get at the bowling alley that were un breakable and lasted forever? >
  
  Any help available for non-bowlers?
  'sofa cups' search doesn't seem relevant. >
  
  Meant soda cups but now I feel someone needs to invent a sofa cup!