Niko Niko Waste

I’m near 50 years old so I didn’t grow up caring much about these things, but it stood out to me when I visited Niko Niko that every single patron that eats inside the restaurant has to use individually plastic-wrapped plastic cutlery. No recycling available for the cutlery or beverage bottles, either. For a busy restaurant, the single use dine-in utensils especially struck me as strange in this day and age.

Any reason for this or just a simple, wasteful shortcut? Any other restaurants in our community like this?