Saturday, March 24, 1973
LUNCH BOX MANUFACTURERS STEPPING UP SALES
Urban Council Canteen Under Study
Lunch box manufacturers are stepping up greatly their output
of the quick and inexpensive meals.
More packaged-meal factories are also opening, and at least
one is looking for space in Central District to operate 13 sales counters,
doubling the number already in business there.
These moves follow a recent Urban Council decision to phase out
illegal food catering on the grounds that the illegal kitchens are unhygienic
and that they cause grave nuisances and dangers to people living
in domestic buildings.
The phase-out takes place in three stages over a period of one year.
The first phase starts immediately and affects unlicensed food
caterers operating on rooftops, scavenging lanes, yards and common parts
of buildings and open spaces.
Letters have already been sent to these operators.
Phase two affects those unlicensed food caterers operating in
domestic premises with co-tenants or sub-tenants or where other kinds of
businesses are run in the same flat.
These people have been told to wind up their businesses on or
before September this year.
Phase three concerns those unlicensed caterers in domestic buildings
who do not share their flats with anyone or with any other businesses.
They will be told to wind up before March 1974.
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