In a sane society this would be illegal.
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In America, if you take garbage cookies that is stealing and you will be fired.
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How very Christian of them.
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.
Capitalism breeds innovation, this is the Innovation that capitalism brings
YOU THINK SOAP IS GONNA STOP ME?
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!
it’s chick-fil-a. the owner(s) cannot feel shame.
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.
What did they say to convince you to hand it over? I've never heard of a restaurant that demanded the old order back before they'll replace it. They always let you keep the mistake.
The only explanation I can come up with is that the particular Domino's you went to has a serious Karen problem. People making up complaints just to get free food.
Not too uncommon to bring it with you to show them, an instinct to prove it's wrong and you're not lying. Although most places will ask you if you want to keep both, rather than just immediately tossing it.
No they forced me to do a fucking swap. Said had return the wronged pizza which I found strange because Domino's commercial say they will fix order without returning. Fact that they took the wrong pizza and threw it in garbage in front of me pissed me off.
Damn, that's an extra level of weird here. Like... fair enough if you need to confirm you messed up the order and aren't getting scammed, but you don't need to trash the dang thing, for absolutely zero profit.
I feel like the worst case of leaving the pizza with you is free advertising when you share that free bonus pizza.
I would have refused and then called corporate if they pressed the matter.
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Those cookies are wrapped and sitting at the top of the trash.
The George Costanza in me says it’s okay to take them.
Manufactured scarcity. Millions of people right here in America are going without the calories to be healthy. And our government literally just burned millions of tons of USAID ment for overseas. They refused to give it to the fucking tax payers let alone donate it to needy people in Africa. Conservative beliefs is a death cult. (specifically the poor, queer, and minorities death...)
They should be producing baeed on sales anyways. They wouldn't bake extra to keep because you would be reprimanded for baking extra at the start vs wasting food at the end. It takes the human element out of decision making which also, ironically, let's you react more humanely to the system.
It's what Jesus would have done
Back when I was in high school (and not super poor but my family couldn't afford good quality food) I worked at a sandwich shop that would bake fresh bread everyday, one day there was a power outage and we ended up with a ton of extra bread, I walked home with a huge trash bag full of fresh baked bread, it was fanatic. Worth the weight and the hour walk home.
That's very christian of you, chick- fil-A.
1 Timothy 5:18.
For the scripture saith, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." And, "The labourer is worthy of his reward."
I guess the ox is worthy, but the fry cook is not.
Shout-out to too good to go
Extra/not picked up food from restaurants and groceries gets bundled as a mystery box at discounted prices so they don't have to be tossed.
Rhett and Link from good mythical morning regularly do unboxings and reviews
If you think this is bad, just wait until you find out how much food grocery stores throw away every single day.
They used to get incentives to give food that was past its "sell by" date but was still safe to food banks, but that stopped a few years back.
My local food bank was hit hard. They used to get daily deliveries from HEB Randalls trucks. But when the grocery stopped being able to claim incentives, it was cheaper to just throw the food away.
I always heard that grocery stores dump their "expired" food instead of donating it to avoid the possibility that someone could get sick and sue them. Idk if it's true or not but the whole thing is fucked.
Nah, they just don't wanna do it, then they spread this rumor about the perils of our legal system preventing them. There's a thing called the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act in the US which absolves businesses from liability. But i believe it has to go to a distribution center, not directly to a person, which may require additional effort from the grocer/restaurant.
That's one of the reasons they used food banks. They absolved themselves of the liability by transferring it to the food banks, who would then be the ones responsible for disposing of expired food instead of handing it out.
but that stopped a few years back.
Depends on where you are.
France enacted a law that specified it's illegal for supermarkets to throw away edible food like 10 years ago.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/is-frances-groundbreaking-food-waste-law-working
No idea if it's a biased article though, I didn't read it, I'm drunk and couldn't be arsed
Fuck em, take it anyway.
The good news is crumbl cookies donates their excess to the kitchen where my local branch of FNBs preps.
The bad news is they have SO MUCH excess that we literally cannot get rid of all of them giving them away for free. Some end up in the compost.
I worked at a Panera a long time ago on closing shift and we had an agreement with a local food bank who would send over a car to collect bread. Usually the car got filled up and we were allowed to take as much as we could carry of the rest. Only anything leftover after that was thrown away.
Food waste seems pretty high across the board for every country in the world. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/food-waste-by-country
This is not infuriating, idc that a few cookies are being thrown out. People arent starving for some cookies in America. What is actually infuriating is the Trump admin throwing out entire shipments of food that could have provided people with healthy staple foods for a long period.
When I worked at Ruby Tuesday, any time a wrong order was made, or something was sent back for any reason, it would get thrown out. They wouldn't give it to their employees, they wouldn't donate it. This was back in 2007. But I thought it was pretty crappy then. Not sure if they still do this.
This makes me sick. Had the exact opposite experience while working at Honey Baked ham. We were sent home with food almost every day. Even then, on Sundays we would donate bread and meat that was about to go bad to the local church. Was a wholesome experience working there honestly. Hope they still operate that way.
I hope they piss in his car's ventilation every day.
From what I heard from a coworker, moose pheromones are even stinkier? They used em as a prank (they can be ordered for hunting) on a friend but it was so hard to get out I think the car he to be totalled, if I remember the story right
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.
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