I heard of a new trend over here. Some places do that already. 'All you can eat' but you pay extra for whatever's left in your plate when you leave the place.

Perhaps the solution to that food wasting.

>Any time I walk into a "Mandarin" ('all you can eat' Chinese (Canadian Chinese)) restaurant, I marvel at the amount of food that must be wasted. People take huge platesful over and over, and usually the last one is about half finished. I also wonder what happens to the food left over at the end of the day. There must be tons.
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>>I was surprised:
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>>http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041122/foodwaste.html
>>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080508185621.fb31km8r&show_article=1
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>>I couldn't find anything more recent on Americans - I'm sure we've caught up, if not surpassed, the Brits on food waste.