What do hotels do with leftovers from their buffet spread?

Answer 1

They give it to their employees as "employee lunch" the next day. The worst part is that they expect them to pay for it.

Answer 2

Ive done banquets at a golf course and currently cook at a university for a company that does corporate dining around the country. The leftovers are either given to the staff, properly chilled and reused for something else, or thrown away. For dinner we are only open for 2.5 hours and feed 2300 students. Our food doesnt sit around for 4 hours, so as long as we keep it at proper temperatures, and then chill it properly, it is safe to reuse. We often will reuse food for soups, salads, build-your-own pasta or soup, other dishes, or in case we run short the next day or two. We also make sure to label and date everything so that food doesnt sit in the cooler for more than a couple days. Everything that goes in the trash costs money, so you are really throwing your money away if you cant utilize it somehow.

Leftovers at a restaurant are most likely safer than the ones at your house, because there are people to check time and temperature of the hot and cold food. How often have you been to an outdoor picnic in the summer and brought home leftover potato salad that has a mayo based dressing? Hope you have some good reading material in your bathroom.

Answer 3

Where I've worked the leftovers were the free employee meals. One place was VERY nice, so I never complained about having free gourmet food. Those people were paying $1000 a plate anyway, so there was free salmon, caviar, carpaccio, you name it. But at the end of the night it was thrown out due to laws.

Answer 4

Most places use it for employee meals. It is against health department rules to serve any foods that have been out of temperature for over four hours. So most of it is thrown out. The restaurant is aware of this loss and has figured in to the retail costs of the buffet and they also recover the loss in other areas of the business.

Answer 5

I used to manage a buffet restaurant, we would donate the leftovers to a homeless shelter. You get decent tax benefits for doing so as well.

Answer 6

i ve worked in banquet restaurants that would give to homeless ppl all the leftovers -clean,,,-the ones that never made it to the buffet ,that included salmon losbters and tenderloins)
also in a hotel that whould give it to the personel.
both facilities where working under the HAASP program that ensured the quality of the product,,,,

Answer 7

I work at a cafeteria and it is from a catering company. Anytime they have leftovers and they look good! we have to throw them out. We cannot resell them, It is a health hazard to do so. or if we choose we can eat the leftovers but honestly you don't know who licked or touched something and put it back. So we throw em out even if they look decent.

Answer 8

put it this way, never be the first people to dine at dinner if the same hotel does a lunch buffet, reused, reheated, refuse to eat it.

Answer 9

In the small town I lived in once the dishwasher got to take the leftovers to his pigs. Sometimes, they made out!

The pigs, not the guys with the pigs!!

Answer 10

After the employees get their fill they have to throw it out,if they reuse or give it to a shelter they are breaking the law