The Tokyo metropolitan government is considering regulations on street vendors of bento lunch boxes, a favorite among workers in business districts struggling to find a place to eat lunch.
The number of such street vendors have surged in the past 10 years, partly due to an increase in the number of workers in business districts.But fearing possible food poisoning cases, the metropolitan government is considering toughening regulations on the industry because sanitation measures of many such vendors are considered insufficient and some conduct business without notifying the authorities.
One day, more than 10 wagons and small trucks lined the streets of Tokyo's Nihonbashi business district selling many lunch boxes containing such entrees as miso-boiled saba mackerel and fried chicken cutlets.
All the lunch boxes were priced at about ¥500. Shingo Inoue, a 35-year-old company employee who waited in a long line to buy a lunch box, said he patronizes the street vendors at least four times a week.
Source: Yomiuri
One day, more than 10 wagons and small trucks lined the streets of Tokyo's Nihonbashi business district selling many lunch boxes containing such entrees as miso-boiled saba mackerel and fried chicken cutlets.
All the lunch boxes were priced at about ¥500. Shingo Inoue, a 35-year-old company employee who waited in a long line to buy a lunch box, said he patronizes the street vendors at least four times a week.
Source: Yomiuri
