Canaan (CT) woman asks Dunkin Donuts to donate its leftovers

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[matt04]

A Connecticut woman has started a petition asking officials at Dunkin Donuts to donate the uneaten leftovers to those less fortunate.

After a visit to her local Dunkin Donuts in Canaan, Nancy Lewis noticed that "large amounts" of food was being thrown out.

"I couldn't believe it when I found out how wasteful my local Dunkin' Donuts is," Lewis in a statement Friday. "Every day when new donuts arrive, my local store gathers up their leftover donuts and muffins and throws them into the dumpster."

Lewis went on say that the store's employees were not allowed employees to take any of the food home with them.

What was worse, Lewis said there is a food bank located a block away.

"They won't donate these perfectly good leftovers to the needy," Lewis said.

[matt04]

From my retail experience, the people who complain the most about wasted food are the one who demand the freshest food and dig to the back to get something fresher by one day.

[Third Person]

Donuts for the poor... What would Michelle say about that?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is someone stopping her from donating? Typical leftist: I want so-and-so to give such-and-such to those poor people.

[matt04]

Lewis acknowledges that the food at Dunkin Donuts is not the healthiest, but she said "there is no reason for perfectly good food to be thrown out in such large quantities."

But it makes her feel good, right?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Typical leftist: I want so-and-so to give such-and-such to those poor people.

Exactly. She has so many good intentions for other peoples' money. She gets to feel good about herself and she doesn't have to take one red cent out of her pocket to do so.

[Hot Tabasco]

From my retail experience,

Since she claims the food is being thrown out, I don't see any problem with the chain donating them to local food banks........

[facedown]

In some places they’re forbidden by local Health Dept. ordinances from doing so.

[Mr. Blond]

Maybe they could get a tax write-off for charitable donation.

[Boogieman]

I’ve eaten day old Dunkin Donuts before. Trust me, the “less fortunate” are better off without them.

[NorthMountain]

>> I’ve eaten day old Dunkin Donuts before. Trust me, the “less fortunate” are better off without them.

I have been the "less fortunate" ... trust me, day old (or even older) doughnuts would have been great!

[ilovesarah2012]

http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/12/11907.pdf

The United States is often described as the land of plenty. But all too often we
hear about and see images of chronic hunger in our country. The problem of
hunger is significant, but our resources and ability to solve the problem are
significant as well.
One of the best ways to solve the hunger problem is through vigorous participa-
tion in food-recovery and donation programs. In this guidebook, you will learn
how to efficiently donate your restaurant’s excess food to a local food donation
program. Your donation will go on to feed people in your community who would
otherwise go hungry.
I know restaurateurs are busy, and many may say donating food is too difficult,
too risky or won’t really make a difference. I am here to tell you that it is not diffi-
cult or time-consuming. It is not too risky, especially since the Good Samaritan
Food Donation Act was passed to encourage food donation without the fear of
liability. Most important, it does make a difference.
The restaurant industry feeds millions of people every day in our nation’s restau-
rants. We are also on the front lines feeding people in need. But we have to do
more. We are the nation’s kitchens. We are the nation’s cooks. We are the ones
who can make this the land of plenty for everyone.

Herman Cain
CEO and President
National Restaurant Association

[dirtymac]

All fast food restaurant throw out a lot of food daily. It cannot be donated for any cause or reason. My son worked at the local McDonalds after high school and was disgusted by their waste. But it is the law of the land. Liberal policy overseers do not want wasted food to go to the poor. According to these liberal wonks,the poor deserve better than our leftovers.

[RightOnTheBorder]

It just astounds me how journalists are always the least curious, least qualified people for the job of reporting the news. Had the crew at Eyewitness News 3 bothered to call any Dunkin’ Doughnuts they would find that A)Giving away old doughnuts is like giving food to stray cats and pretty soon your paying customers are swamped with indigents waiting for the free stuff and B)The local health department likely will not allow them to give away food deemed to old for sale to the public. These are both lessons learned by a local bagel shop in my town.

[TalBlack]

DD’s liability lawyers can think of millions of reasons not to donate food. Let someone get sick and watch what happens. In the food service industry there is a safety concept called “food handling” that requires the worker to maintain control of the food from start to finish (serving). Once the food is transferred to others somewhere else there is no way to evaluate the safety of the food unless they simply assume DD is guaranteeing it.

[Oldhunk]

There could be a legal issue at play where DD does not want to be sued for giving away spoiled food.

[P.O.E.]

Why buy them then? Just go to the food bank for them.

[PapaBear3625]

One word: "liability".

Once food leaves DD premises, DD has no control over whether it gets properly refrigerated, etc. DD does NOT want somebody in a food bank to get sick, decide it was from leftover DD food, and sue.

[scrabblehack]

A number of restaurants do give away their leftovers to the food bank....I think the secret is that they give it to the food bank, then the stray cats swarm the food bank, not your establishment.

[jmaroneps37]

Liberals excel at giving away what is not theirs to make themselves feel better. Asking Dunkin to give their leftovers to the poor is fine and actually a good thing, if it stopped there: asked and answered but you know damned well she won't stop there. I smell a “boycott Dunkin Donuts” drive in here somewhere don't you?

[PGR88]

Why doesn’t she just go into the dumpster and get them?