Throwing food away because capitalism

oh gosh i think the imperial cult themed chicken corpo might be bad

you there, reading the replies! do you think there is a possibility that the openly hateful soggy sandwich dump is bad?

nobody can be sure if Hater's Extra Christian Chicken is a bad establishment until we all weigh in

Solution. Have the amount of cookies made everyday set by management, then take the excess home/to the food bank.

Shouldn't the number of cookies to make be a management decision, or do I misunderstand the word "management"? Make a decision, Manager, and if it's too low you run out early and lose a few sales, and if it's too high you let the employees take the leftover cookies home and maybe you get some employee appreciation. Either way, that responsiblility should be yours. More responsibility is one of the reasons you get paid more.

Same thing happened to me at my high school job at Steak n Shake. Normally, if something was ordered and, for whatever reason, never made it to the customer (server mistake, customer changed their mind, order made wrong, etc.) we would hold it for a time under the heat lamp, and if someone else ordered the same thing, we would offer it to them. If, after some time, no one took it, common procedure was to take it to the break room where it could be snacked on by the staff. It was a very rare occasion that it happened, and none of the managers were concerned about it... until Andy transferred to our store.

Andy was a dick, and was constantly watching for anything that MIGHT be theft and harassed everyone all the time about the purchases they made with their employee discounts (who rang you up, did they ring up everything, did you pay for that, etc.). One day we had someone order a large fry late into their meal, then had to leave in a hurry, paid and left before they got the fries (unclear if they paid for the fries or if they took it off the check, idk). So they sat for like 2 hours under the heat lamp, way longer than we would ever have served them to a customer as they were going dry and stale by this point. I confirmed the situation with the fries and started to take it back to the break room for munching if anyone was so inclined. Andy, who was at the shake station, though, saw me walk toward the back with the fries.

He sprinted to the back and doubled back to cut me off. He asked where I was going with the fries and if I bought them. I said to the break room and no and explained that they got left, were old and stale, etc. He said, "oh, ok. Here, I'll take it." So I handed it to him and without taking his eyes off of me, he dumped the whole thing in the trashcan next to him and tossed the dish on the dishwasher station counter, and said nothing while continuing to stare at me. I said, "okaaaay...." and walked away. Fucking psycho.

They did this at the supermarket I worked at as a teenager.

Fuck that noise though, no one was watching me work so I'd just eat some pastries I was supposed to be throwing away. Didn't take anything home, but you better believe I'm not going to just throw it all away without eating something!

Their mentality was "if you want it enough, pay for it, otherwise you don't really want it."

Mother fucker it's going in the garbage that's the only reason I'd "want" it... I don't "need" to buy it, but I don't want it go to waste.

In a sane society this would be illegal.

You know what would keep that from happening? Free food for the employees while at work.

One day I went to Chipotle before work, with the plan to buy something to later have for lunch. They had recently raised the prices, but I still got my usual burrito. When we got to the guac station, it was fresh out. "They're making more." Cool! I'll just wait then.

When the fresh guac came out a few minutes later, the worker casually went to throw the burrito they'd already made for me away. I stopped them and asked, "What are you doing?!"

They said, "I'm making you a fresh one."

What?! It wasn't even five minutes. I told them, "Just put the fresh guac into the same burrito. I'm not eating it until my lunch break anyway. Four hours from now."

Thankfully the worker complied, but I was shocked. If that's what they typically do, I can't imagine how much food they needlessly waste on a daily basis. Do people seriously think burritos go bad after sitting under foil for a few minutes? Especially when all the exact same ingredients are kept out and uncovered at the prep station for much longer? I just... I can't understand. I paid $9 for something they would have just thrown away?

If food is that easily disposible to a restaurant, then they have no business raising prices so often. Maybe employees can offer to remake food in a situation like I had, in order to satisfy the pickiest of us. But to train people to automatically do it in every circumstance? You're pretty much driving your own food costs up for no reason. I just can't logic this.

I used to work at Chick-fil-A in high school for about 2 years. At first we were able to take ice cream home at the end of the day since it would just be poured down the drain anyways. Same with nuggets and fries. It was so fun and rewarding to have a little extra treat. Corporate said the exact same thing, so now we had to pour the soap cleaner into the ice cream machine before emptying it so no one drinks any. It’s so sad.

There are surplus food donation programs: the EPA provides a guide that explains the legal protections & tax benefits with tools to find recipient organizations. When even Chick-fil-a runs one such program, the manager has no excuse to be a certified asshole.

I just had to do a swap with Domino's because they gave me the wrong pizza. Just watched them throw the pizza in the trash. It pissed me off, they should have let me keep it. Bullshit sick corporations throwing editable food away. This picture pisses me off.

Sadly, just about every product at retail has a version of this. Mass production produces waste at every stage, including the final product. At the same time, those waste streams have value and need to be managed to avoid hurting the bottom line. Usually it's a practical money-making thing, but I suspect that there's ample room here for spite.

For example, "expired" magazines get the covers ripped off, so they can't get re-purposed somehow. Also, new cars are downright rage-inducing when you learn about the full picture.

Then make less? Or set a number of how many to make so there isn't waste?

Has this company ever done LEAN transformation or any corporate practice to reduce waste?

Or are they just concerned about donating to conversion therapy and dumb Christian hate stuff?

yeah exactly what'd i'd expect from chick fill-a

Super simple fix:

Every employee gets up to five free cookies as part of their compensation for the day. Employees may choose to take from the surplus if they care about eliminating waste.

There are services out there that even take rejected food! This is so infuriating! Shame that owner, and shame the capitalistic system that made this all possible!

That's very christian of you, chick- fil-A.

If you think this is bad, just wait until you find out how much food grocery stores throw away every single day.

When I worked in a kitchen at a pizza place in the summer of '88, the restaurant chain's policy was that staff could have any food they wanted, free of charge. They just had to note it in a ledger (I assume so that the restaurant could record it as an expense). You could drink as much soda as you wanted without noting it because it was too cheap to care about.

It always seemed like a perfectly rational policy. It's an easy and cheap way to make your employees think you care about them.

Fuck em, take it anyway.

I hope they piss in his car's ventilation every day.

I'd love to tell your manager that he works at a Christian establishment and that this constitutes greed, perhaps with elements of sloth. Both are mortal sins. Shall the owners' sky-daddy beliefs turn out to be right, he's in for eternal punishment.

Thinking aloud, what would you think of a "community donation" menu item?

The gist is - say you're a pizza company and create an edible mistake - offer the customer to make a community donation. You add $5 to their order (cost of ingredients) and a paper slip to their order and heck, toss in one slice of the mistake pizza. The slip has a dual purpose - one half is a donation receipt, the other is a 'collect 5 for a free pizza' coupon. The rest of the pizza then is free to distribute (to employees, guests, passersby's on the street - or on a particularly error prone day a local shelter)

The shop management gets costs reimbursed. The employee is out only the time for the second pizza (which they had to do anyway) and the customer gets warm fuzzies and a tax write off for doing the right thing. As a bonus, the free pizza and charity are both great optics.

If the customer declines, the option reverts to the employee (they get the tax receipt, house keeps the coupon), and only if both decline may the pizza be trashed (I mean, management may still opt to 'donate' but give it to only non-employees (still great optics), but even if it gets trashed, it now looks like the customer that's the jerk, not the shop.)

And there's little chance of abuse, I think. If the customer and employee conspire, the employee is effectively just adding to their own workload, the customer spends $25 in donations for a free $14 pizza, and management laughs its way to the bank bragging about how charitable their employees are.