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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I worked for a food-service co selling pretzels, pizzas, etc... at stadiums, cafeterias, etc...
All food is thrown away for the health and liability reasons you mentioned. ALSO - when extra pizzas were allowed to be taken home or given away, it was found that many more pizzas were made at the end of the day, and all those extra pizzas just happened to be taken home or given to friends, by the employees.
New laws and regulations have made it impossible for shops and restaurants to DONATE untouched food items.
They have to prove the items have been kept at a certain temperature and other conditions must be adhered to, which is totally stupid when it comes to items like donutes, muffins, cookies, etc.
A neighbor works next door to a donut shop and she watched dozens of boxes of donutes thrown away each night, when before Obama and his regulations, they were donated to food kitchens and shelters. There are now laws decreeing exactly HOW the food is delivered - I believe the bakery has to deliver the goods to a shelter in a vehicle that conforms to some new regulations, which the baker cannot afford to comply with.
Long story short, the friend waits behind the bakery until the goods are ‘thrown out’ and she is there to ‘catch them’. She then takes them to the public library, to nursing homes - we buy her gas cards to defray some of the costs.
The liberal wet dream is for everyone to be completely dependent on the government, which will be fully staffed with liberals (which is pretty much the case now). That’s why the charitable donations allowed for income tax purposes has been severely cut. Wealthy and not so wealthy people are now discouraged from donating, leaving the government to be the only Santa Claus that people in need can go to.
Anyone who doesn’t think this is a piece of the larger plan is delusional.
>> I don’t see any problem with the chain donating them to local food banks........
Then start up an organization that will collect and redistribute the discarded food, and also absorb the various liabilities while indemnifying DD.
What I think would be a fun thing to do is steal a donut truck and have a bunch of police cars chasing it. Then have it b’cast on TV like the OJ thing .... just imagine being in prison for it ... what you’d say ...
YOU do it, I'm too cold........
Ah, those evil corporate monsters!
If DD agrees, they will be criticized for giving stale fattening food to the poor. They can’t win.
Gave them $2.00 for the lot.
As a side note, why does it take an organization? How about just calling up the local food bank and having them stop by and picking up the donuts???????????? DUH!
Our grocery store can’t give away the old bread and produce anymore.
America has grown wasteful in many, many ways.
Canann isn’t one of the poorer areas of CT.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Canaan_CT?source=web
To indemnify DD.
In the meantime, we need to donate money so that the writer of this piece can take a course on basic grammar. Subject-verb agreement is just too old-fashioned these days, I suppose.
I suppose getting out her checkbook and buying the products and then giving them away herself isn’t an option.
I used to occasionally stop by a DD for breakfast on the way to work.
Just so happens that my schedule would put me there when the new donuts arrived.
Once in a while I would buy the day olds from them as a treat for my coworkers. They would let me have them at a 20% discount.
They have since canceled that deal for some reason.
As long as they avoid donating muffin tops I see no problem.
I have purchased “day old” donuts or bagels, slightly overripe fruit and other deeply discounted food items from time to time.
There are only 14 people in the entire town ferkripesake!
I used to work at a Summer retreat. Their kitchen would feed up to 2500 people tho it was usually a lot less. The food was brought out of the kitchen in large pans covered with saran wrap.
All leftover food which had never had the saran wrap disturbed was given to a local homeless shelter. I remember seeing their van come by just about daily.
Food which had been taken off plates or even if the wrap had been disturbed was given to a hog farmer. He had to cook it again for some reason. Anyway none of it went to waste. I liked that as I was brought up that you do not waste food. Of course we had a dog outside who took care of most of it.
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