article_snippet.sent: It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, as French restaurateurs have discovered.
article_snippet.sent: A report to the French government is urging eateries and customers to embrace 'le doggy bag' in a bid to reduce the staggering amount of food thrown away each year.
article_snippet.sent: Socialist MP Guillaume Garot, the author of the study, said while the popular US practice was previously 'unthinkable' for snooty diners and chefs, a change in attitudes could save France up to €20 billion (£14 billion) a year.
article_snippet.sent: French diners have previously seen doggy bags - popular in America and the UK - as 'embarrassing', but one MP has said increasing French diners use would stop France wasting huge amounts of food .
article_snippet.sent: Chefs in France have treated takeaway bags with contempt, seeing Chefs in France as 'degrading' towards Chefs in France dishes .
article_snippet.sent: one MP has put forward 36 proposals including promoting 'doggy bags', which allow customers to bring customers leftover meal home with customers, as a way of stopping the rampant food waste in France, a report in The Daily Telegraph says.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Garot accepts that there is a cultural obstacle stopping diners asking for takeaway bags, with proud chefs seeing it as 'degrading' towards their carefully-crafted dishes.
article_snippet.sent: But the scale of the food wastage problem in France means something must be done to stop the 'almost automatic' habit of waiters and cooks throwing away leftover food, Mr Garot adds.
article_snippet.sent: French start-up company TakeAway told the newspaper introduced the 'doggy bags' - or 'le gourmet bag', as one union boss has suggested calling them - is considered 'a bit embarrassing'.
article_snippet.sent: But a recent poll revealed that 75 per cent of French diners would consider making the most of the bags to enjoy the rest of the bags dinner later on.
highlights_snippet.sent: Chefs should embrace 'le doggy bag' to stop edible food going in the bin .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Popular practice was previously 'unthinkable' for French food lovers .