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The problem of lunch for health-conscious workers
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WHITE-COLLAR workers in Shanghai want healthier and more nutritious meals.
The city’s consumer rights protection commission, which carried out a survey, said yesterday authorities should expand the “white-collar lunch” project.
Nearly a fifth of respondents said they had their latest lunch at a fast-food restaurant, followed by 19.1 percent who said they had eaten their most recent lunch at a work canteen.
The survey said 15.1 percent had bought their last lunch via food delivery apps, while a further 9.3 percent said they had gone to convenience stores.
The survey, covering more than 1,300 respondents across the city, was jointly conducted by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
“We found that fast-food restaurants, convenience stores and food delivery platforms are some of the most visited venues of white-collar workers for lunch, and many white-collar workers are not able to enjoy nutritious lunch because their lunch foods are usually simple, lack of vegetables or have too much oil, salt and sugar,” said Li Yan, an official with the commission.
“Where to have lunch is always a headache for me because our company has no canteen,” said Jessie Teng, a marketing staff worker at an education training center in Xuhui District.
“Fast food is not healthy, convenience store food is simple, while small restaurants are not clean, and a big restaurant means a higher cost,” she added.
Authorities should increase the number of white-collar worker canteens and boost supervision and management of white-collar lunches, according to the commission.
Jing’an was the first district in the city to introduce a “white-collar lunch” program. It did so in 2008 to try to resolve the difficulty of where to have meals for white-collar workers.
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