When you are dining at a restaurant, you are often left with excess food. In this case, what do you do? While some diners ask waiters to pack the excess food in plastic containers, others simply leave the excess food behind.
However, a video that has gone viral on social media showed a man who carried his own steel dabba to the restaurant and packed the excess food in it. Rather than relying on plastic containers provided by the restaurants, this is a sustainable practice and there is nothing to be embarrassed about.
Nayana Premnath, who is a digital content creator, shared a video of her father packing the leftover food at a fancy restaurant into a steel container that he had got from home. Nayana said in the video that the key is to normalise such practice. She shared a long note along with the video and explained why it is important to adopt such sustainable steps in our lives.
“The ones who are still embarrassed about packing up the leftovers in front of their friends or family. My parents did not change overnight probably took me 3 whole years to see these changes. Today, my mom is the one who reminds me to take a dabba whenever we go to a restaurant. My sister carries her own stash of steel straws to use at the cafés.
My dad shocked me by taking the dabba from me and putting in the leftovers by himself. This made me the happiest. By doing this, he prevented us from taking home a plastic packet of food. Also, this happened at a very fancy restaurant. My husband always says no to the disposable water bottles kept at the restaurant tables and asks for normal water for all of us,” she wrote.
