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Want a ketchup packet at a restaurant? New California law means you’ll have to ask for it

By Andrew Sheeler

Updated October 05, 2021 3:23 PM

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, Oct. 5 signed a law prohibiting restaurants from giving out single-use packages, including ketchup packets, unless customers ask for them. Cristina Fletes-Boutte Tribune





You’ll have to ask for that ketchup packet now.


California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill into law prohibiting restaurants and other food facilities from providing single-use foodware accessories or condiments — such as forks or soy sauce packets — unless they are specifically requested by the customer.

The bill, Assembly Bill 1276 authored by Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, D-Los Angeles, prohibits single-use items from being bundled or packaged in a way that prevents the customer from taking only the item desired.

The bill also requires third-party food delivery platforms, such as DoorDash, to list the availability of single-use items and only provide those items when requested.

Exempted from the law are correctional institutions, health care and residential care facilities and school cafeterias.

The new law gives cities and counties until June 1, 2022, to authorize an enforcement agency to enforce those requirements.

A first and second offense would result in a notice of violation, while third and subsequent violations would be an infraction punishable by a fine of $25 per day not to exceed an annual total of $300.

According to the California Coastal Commission, cups, plates, utensils and straws are among the top 10 most collected items trash items during California Coastal Cleanup Day.

Plastics comprise as much as 80% of marine debris and 90% of all floating debris, and by 2050 there will be more plastic by weight in the ocean than there will be fish if we keep producing plastics at predicted rates, according to a January 2016 report by the World Economics Forum.

Carrillo in a statement urging lawmakers to support her bill wrote it “is an important step to significantly reduce plastic waste that pollutes our oceans, harms marine life, harms our environment, and hurts low income communities of color, while simultaneously providing financial savings to restaurants and local governments.”

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, included the bill in a list of “Top 10 Bad Bills” that he shared on Twitter.

“Why was making local gov’t the ‘ketchup packet police’ a priority?” Wilk tweeted.
 
Sicario

Sicario

The Executor
I always carry my own ketchup packets to restaurants. I've never found a restaurant that offers ketchup without HFCS, and I will NOT eat it. So I have a bunch of packets of good, clean French's ketchup that travel with me. They can keep their poison! :D
 
K

KFhunter

Veteran Member
I have found if I place my order, then at my table ask for fry sauce etc, it's free.

If I ask for fry sauce while ordering, they upcharge me.

I don't eat out much maybe this is old info
 
Southside

Southside

Has No Life - Lives on TB
This is EXACTLY I love Central & South American countries.
They do not have the internal $$$ to support stupid laws, so they don't pass them.

THAT, my friends, is FREEDOM!
 
thompson

thompson

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bw said:
I cannot imagine how virtuous the drafter of this law must feel now. I should run for public office, so I can make total strangers behave in a way I find more acceptable.
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Wendy Carrillo - Wikipedia

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Wendy Carrillo was born in El Salvador on August 10, 1980, the oldest of five daughters. Her mother immigrated to the United States when Carrillo was a child, as she felt it was unsafe to remain in El Salvador due to civil war. Carrillo's mother worked as a babysitter. From this, she was able to save enough money to bring Carrillo, along with Carrillo's grandmother and aunt, to the United States. She moved to Los Angeles at age 5, and grew up in Boyle Heights and City Terrace. She received residency at age 13 after her father petitioned for her. At age 21, she applied to become a naturalized citizen and was granted citizenship.

Carrillo attended Harrison Elementary, El Sereno Middle School and Roosevelt High. She is a graduate of both East Los Angeles College and Cal State Los Angeles. Carrillo earned a master's degree, with an emphasis in demography and politics, from the University of Southern California.
 
AlfaMan

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Intestinal Fortitude said:

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Want a ketchup packet at a restaurant? New California law means you’ll have to ask for it

By Andrew Sheeler

Updated October 05, 2021 3:23 PM

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, Oct. 5 signed a law prohibiting restaurants from giving out single-use packages, including ketchup packets, unless customers ask for them. Cristina Fletes-Boutte Tribune





You’ll have to ask for that ketchup packet now.


California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill into law prohibiting restaurants and other food facilities from providing single-use foodware accessories or condiments — such as forks or soy sauce packets — unless they are specifically requested by the customer.

The bill, Assembly Bill 1276 authored by Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, D-Los Angeles, prohibits single-use items from being bundled or packaged in a way that prevents the customer from taking only the item desired.

The bill also requires third-party food delivery platforms, such as DoorDash, to list the availability of single-use items and only provide those items when requested.

Exempted from the law are correctional institutions, health care and residential care facilities and school cafeterias.

The new law gives cities and counties until June 1, 2022, to authorize an enforcement agency to enforce those requirements.

A first and second offense would result in a notice of violation, while third and subsequent violations would be an infraction punishable by a fine of $25 per day not to exceed an annual total of $300.

According to the California Coastal Commission, cups, plates, utensils and straws are among the top 10 most collected items trash items during California Coastal Cleanup Day.

Plastics comprise as much as 80% of marine debris and 90% of all floating debris, and by 2050 there will be more plastic by weight in the ocean than there will be fish if we keep producing plastics at predicted rates, according to a January 2016 report by the World Economics Forum.

Carrillo in a statement urging lawmakers to support her bill wrote it “is an important step to significantly reduce plastic waste that pollutes our oceans, harms marine life, harms our environment, and hurts low income communities of color, while simultaneously providing financial savings to restaurants and local governments.”

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, included the bill in a list of “Top 10 Bad Bills” that he shared on Twitter.

“Why was making local gov’t the ‘ketchup packet police’ a priority?” Wilk tweeted.
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"and hurts low income communities of color"

Huh? That takeout package of ketchup is going to hurt those vaunted "communities of color"??? My God who writes this stuff?
The writer has never seen the "communities of color" in places like Philly, DC, Atlanta, Birmingham etc. They're dumpsters already. No quantities of spent ketchup packets will add to the blight.
 
bw

bw

Fringe Ranger
Extra ketchup packets are actually a viable weapon in kitchen warfare. You cup the packet in your fingers with your thumb pressed against the packet. When you squeeze you can get an extremely satisfying jet of tomato when the seam gives way. With practice it can sort of be aimed. So don't stint on the ketchup.

It's best to do this in a commercial kitchen where things can be hosed down. Don't try this at home.
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
I got no problem with this; save the stuff for those who want it: less landfill. less wasted food. My drawers stay cleaner, coz I'm one who has to save every single extra packet of everything. And, best of all, it kept the kids occupied with harmless busy work (creating this law) and out of the adults hair.

..if it happens to byte kerry's bottom line coz less packets are sold, well, that suits me too. :: shrug ::
 
byronandkathy2003

byronandkathy2003

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bw said:
Extra ketchup packets are actually a viable weapon in kitchen warfare. You cup the packet in your fingers with your thumb pressed against the packet. When you squeeze you can get an extremely satisfying jet of tomato when the seam gives way. With practice it can sort of be aimed. So don't stint on the ketchup.

It's best to do this in a commercial kitchen where things can be hosed down. Don't try this at home.
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they are great under car tires in the parking lot too
 
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