"French restaurants acknowledge serving factory-frozen food"

=> "French restaurants acknowledge serving factory-frozen food"

This article comes from the Washington Post and was written by Edward Cody in July 2013.

This article talks about French restaurants serving factory-frozen food. 

A recent survey shows that a third of French restaurants serve frozen food to their clients and both tourists and French consumers are very disappointed. 

The main problem is that people are ready to pay a lot for French cuisine, well known around the world. But in a lot of restaurants, the reality is disappointing. For Consumers Unions, Travel Operators and tourists it's a scandal. Otherwise, the UNESCO declared French meal part of the world patrimony.

The article tries to analyze the problem to understand better why French restaurants' owners use factory-frozen food instead of cooking their own meals. The answer is pretty simple: to maximize profits. Mainly because chefs and assistants salaries are quite expensive and using frozen food avoid such expenses. 

For famous French chefs, Consumers Union and others, French restaurants have to stop "fooling consumers". The government introduced some proposals to avoid these kinds of practices. The minister responsible for artisanship, commerce and tourism, proposes to affix a "home-made" logo on the menus when restaurants are not serving frozen food.

The main objective is to inform potential consumers about the actual food serving by the restaurant.

Because actually, people are ready to pay less for frozen food and more for high quality food but they want to have the choice and the possibility compare restaurants with all the information. They ought to know what they have in their plate.

This "home-made" logo is the first step to a real legislation concerning the control of the origin and the quality of the food serving in French restaurants.

Anastasia.