Metal forks and spoons missing!
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
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By Chan Kai Waey, Chiang Chee Keat
Photos by Chiang Chee Keat
Kampar, 18 March (J-on) – Metal forks and spoons owned by the Chinese economy rice stalls at Block C Cafeteria has been going missing and the culprit is yet to be known.
In order to combat stolen cutlery, the two stalls have been providing plastic forks and spoons instead of the metal ones to the customers. Students uttered their dissatisfaction regarding the difficulties of using plastic cutlery. The plastic is soft and easily breakable.
As there is a lack of forks and spoons, the stalls involved decided to replace the metal forks and spoons with plastic ones temporarily.
The operator for the second last stall, Michael Chang revealed that cutlery is stolen every day.
The stall has lost hundreds of forks and spoons since their business started last year. A quarter of their plates used are lost as well.
Chang shows the quantity of forks and spoons are actually fully filled by these buckets before being stolen.
At the beginning of business they have three boxes of plates, but there are just two boxes nowA report has been made by Chang to the Department of Student Affairs, DSA. As a result, DSA requested the stalls to replace the cutlery for students and he did as asked. However, the problem was not solved as the cutlery went missing again.
“The forks and spoons that is continually goes missing causes our business to lose money as we need to repurchase it. A fork or spoon cost RM0.45 to RM0.50,” said a female stall operator.
Just last week, Chang recorded the quantity of forks and spoons. The list shows that the amount of cutlery made available is decreasing drastically. Now he reminds every customer to place their plates and cutlery into their basin after they have finished their food.
Chang shows the list that indicates the quantity of cutlery that decreased within two weeks.“I wish I could find a better solution to protect the cutlery but it is very hard and we are hoping to get cooperation from students,” said Chang.
The stock of forks and spoons are well prepared for business.An Electronic Engineering student, Edward Loh, gave his opinion that UTAR and cafeteria stalls operators must have good cooperation in order to solve this problem.
He did stress that students are practicing recycling activities to save our environment, but unconsciously they ignore other more serious problems, such as basic table manners.
He emphasized that students nowadays have poor table manners because it is not enforced in UTAR.
Loh voice out his own opinion on this issue
