The Delaware House advances a bill that would prohibit restaurants from providing single-use food items unless asked for by a customer. State Rep. Sophie Phillips鈥檚 (D-Bear) legislation, known as a 鈥淪kip the Stuff鈥� bill, is an effort to reduce the amount of napkins, plastic utensils and condiment packets restaurants include in takeout orders.
Instead of these single-use food items being included in customer鈥檚 orders by default, House Bill 111 would require a customer to ask for those items directly in order for them to be provided, or restaurants can maintain a self-service station where customers can grab the items.
These “Skip the Stuff” laws are already in place in places like New York City, Washington D.C., Denver, Chicago, California, Washington State and numerous New Jersey municipalities. Rep. Phillips, says restaurants stand to save thousands of dollars a year depending on their size if this becomes law and clarifies no single-use items would be outright banned.