I have friends who work in restaurants like Lubby's. I think it's so wrong how they throw so much prepared food after they close. It's such a waste. Isn't there somethingthat can be done with the food, why can't they give it away?
2006-06-21 16:14:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Because of heath and sanitation laws the food has to be discarded. If they give it away, and someone gets food poisoning they're liable for a lawsuit. If health and sanitation inspectors came to the restaurant and found out they were keeping the food or giving it away they'd get shut down.
2006-06-21 16:19:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Food must be stored over 140 degrees or below 40 degrees at all times, or else bacteria would have a chance to grow unchecked. Ideally, restaurants should plan to run out of most usable foods by the end of the night and store anything worth re-running in the refrigerator or freezer. At one restaurant where I worked as a storeroom attendant, we would only throw away a tenth of the leftover food. The rest was stored in a walk-in cooler and reheated the next day as something else, like barbecued chicken or pepper steak.
Some organizations in places like Washington DC and New York do have permission to pick up leftovers from catered functions and serve them to the homeless the next day. They usually stretch the food out as soups or stews. These organizations have special trucks which will keep the foods safe from the event to the kitchen. Few local homeless shelters have that kind of money to invest, nor do they have the permission of the health department to operate such a program.
The only possible exception may be raw fruits or vegetables which do not require refrigeration or heating. Wilted but edible foods may be donated to prison or homeless food programs without nearly as much trouble as cooked foods.
2006-06-21 23:43:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was talking to this guy who works at a grocery store and it was so sad to hear that all the food each day gets thrown away (stuff that is not bought) he told me that up to 100,000 gallons of milk were poured down the drain and a good 200 or more pounds of vegetables were tossed as well! The employees of the place did not even get to have a pick at the stuff!! I think its so wrong to throw out perfectly good food too, while there are so many hungry people out there!! I wish people would give it away but I guess the expensive to do so is too much....money is everything in this world and it sucks!
2006-06-21 23:22:55 · answer #3 · answered by G*G* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember on the children's show Wishbone, the cafeteria worker got in huge trouble for taking the leftovers to the food bank. I do believe it is against health code. I don't see why it couldn't go through some certification or whatever, but it doesn't, and it is sad.
2006-06-21 23:31:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is CHEAPER to throw it away then to donate it.
If you come over and talk to them about you personally picking up the food and driving it to a food bank everyday I bet you can convince them to stop throwing it away.
2006-06-21 23:17:59 · answer #5 · answered by hq3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the thought of giving leftovers is inhuman, its not such a waste after all they go as dog food!!
2006-06-21 23:20:33 · answer #6 · answered by eltivo0210 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they can't find it in their little hearts to give it to hungry people without getting financial gain out of them...they'd rather it stink up the neighborhood and have hungry people climbing in after it with the rodents, and stray animals
2006-06-21 23:59:55 · answer #7 · answered by starduster2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋