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Customers
who are free to help themselves to croutons in
restaurants frequently take 'criminally large
amounts', sometimes exceeding the legally allowed
maximum by a 'very large amount indeed', a latest
report claims.
These
findings come in a report published today by a
pressure group calling itself the Catering Managers
of the UK.
The
group claims that 60% of people who are allowed
to help themselves from the crouton bowl in restaurants
take significantly more croutons than required,
with only 15% taking exactly the right amount.
Catering
Managers of the UK have called on the government
to bring in a statutory limit to the amount of
croutons customers are allowed to take: "Two
desert spoonfuls of croutons for a bowl of soup,
one for a mug or cup, is our preferred designated
maximum. The spoon must be dry to stop croutons
clinging underneath the spoon. The spoon should
not be too heaped that croutons fall off in transit
from the crouton bowl to the designated soup container,"
a man told us.
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