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People in this country might have to follow state orders while dining out

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Sohini Mitter

on April 11, 2017

People in this country might have to follow state orders while dining out

Nope! You can't order so many prawns. Credit: Shutterstock / Magdanatka

In its effort to curb food waste, the Indian government wants to fix serving sizes across hotels and restaurants.

"If a person can eat only two prawns, why should he or she be served six? It’s wastage of food and also money people pay for something that they don’t eat,” a government official said in a report in the Hindustan Times.

Stopping food waste is no doubt well intentioned but some are not impressed with the way the government is going about it.

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It has already suffered the wrath of internet users following a series of regulations around currency notes and meat slaughter. So the prospect of controlling serving sizes while dining out has created quite the social media storm: