Posted on 01/07/2014 3:02:38 PM PST by 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.
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From my supermarket days, the only food we could donate was packaged products that didn’t require refrigeration or hot holding. I.e, no loose rolls or muffins from the self service case, no deli sandwiches, etc. We could donate day old packaged bread or rolls and things like cookies and other packaged baked goods. If it left the store it was trash, no questions asked.
Back in Oct. 2011, we had a foot or more of heavy wet snow, with most of the leaves still on the trees. Many places last power for a 4-9 days. Most of the stores lost power for a minimum of 24 hrs, the I worked at was out for 48 hours until a large (500kW) diesel generator was bought in. Until then we had only had emergency lighting, registers and a few outlets running on the small (80kw ish) natural gas generator the store had. With such a large area out (something like 80% of CT and Western MA), their weren’t enough reefer trailers or dry ice to go around. We had people complain left ad right they couldn’t buy or we would donate the food that had been at room temperature for a day or more.
Just don’t donate any muffin stumps to the poor. We already know how they feel about THAT!
Other then the fact they get sued and its their property.
Once some homeless person digs a donut out of the trash and gets food poisoning, you bet your sweet bippy that some scumbag lawyer would file suit in a New York minute.
So now, dumpsters are locked, or in some cases, the businesses pour ammonia on perfectly fine food, so that nobody can access the perfectly edible food that is thrown away.
In the old days, McDonalds used to have a system where, if a burger wasn't sold by a particular time, it would be thrown out.
I know people who worked there who would tell friends when the "bad burgers" were being tossed, and they would just hand them the bag.
It was win-win.
Nowadays that wouldn't happen.
No offense to scumbags. I had no intention of equating scumbags with lawyers.
For the record, I apologize to scumbags.
Dumpster diving is a huge liability for the store.
I got a feeling there are health department regulations against it.
I remember years ago a school in Texas was going to donate the left over food from the cafeteria to a shelter. The law forbade them. However, it was legal for a “slop” truck to pick it up and deliver it to a pig farm.
soon day-old will not be enough. if they want to donate, that’s fine. if they dont that’s their business too.
Let the poor people eat the poorer people.
Many poor people are overweight. It seems like giving them doughnuts is a bad health choice. However, with free nobamacare, they’d get free treatment. Win...win.
The local warm shelter here in southern Rhode Island will NOT accept day old donuts. I have NO idea why not, but I know the local donut businesses and they give them to the pig farmers for the taking away.
May I suggest, with no animosity, the word FREEDOM!
It’s a product of Dunkin Donuts and it is theirs to do with.
The suggestions are fine, BUT............
“’They won’t donate these perfectly good leftovers to the needy,’ Lewis said.”
Maybe they have no choice. I worked for a 5-star resort that had huge quantities of amazing leftovers following each day of restaurant service and huge convention dinners. The law in that state made it impossible to donate the food to shelters, etc. Not sure how it is now; that was in the early ‘90s.
I understand freedom.......
Wow, only on FR can a thread about donuts get hijacked by pseudo lawyers, constitutionalists and an assorted others with their own twisted logic on why a donut shop shouldn't give away their leftovers.............Sheesh!
But hey, who doesn't love visiting a circus?
My theory is GOD placed humans on Earth for his amusement. Sometimes we exceed his expectations.
Great image!
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