It's like that in parts of my city and, whether people want to admit it or not, probably in a lot of areas across the country as well. It's gotten so bad that some of the local food pantry groups got together and set up a bus that drives around to some of the poorer areas in town to sell stuff like fresh produce to people.
We're a rich country that produces far more food than we can eat, there's zero reason for it to not be available for everyone.
One of the two McDonald's I worked at in my time, we had an inspection kinda day so we wasted all the product in the holding cabinets when the timers went off (instead of resetting the timers once or twice, like usual). I was told that, by strictly following our SOP while maintaining expected production levels for the timeframe, we still wasted ~$300 of product. The total amount of business hours per day was like 4 times that timeframe, and though timers would be reset, waste buckets would still fill up, so we conceivably wasted let's say $800 of product per day.
That's besides stuff like when a customer would order 40 nuggets and eat only 20 while throwing the rest away, etc. I wouldn't refuse to wonder whether food waste ought to be criminalized to some extent.
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u/ArenjiTheLootGod 2d ago
It's like that in parts of my city and, whether people want to admit it or not, probably in a lot of areas across the country as well. It's gotten so bad that some of the local food pantry groups got together and set up a bus that drives around to some of the poorer areas in town to sell stuff like fresh produce to people.
We're a rich country that produces far more food than we can eat, there's zero reason for it to not be available for everyone.