Posted on 10/02/2018 8:17:15 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
Starting Monday, Austin restaurants and food businesses have to come up with alternatives to tossing extra food in the trash.
The city hopes businesses donate the extra food to those in need, but they could also give it to local farms or compost it. It's part of the Universal Recycling Ordinance, which the city hopes will help reach its Zero Waste by 2040 goal.
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My granny told us to think of the starving Chinese, but her food was always good....My other granny’s dog was obese
My mommy told me not to be a fussy young man.
I wanted Cap’n Crunch but not no Raisin Bran
But then she told “Little kids are starving in Japan”
“So just eat it, eat it. Just eat it.”
“Just eat it, eat it. Just eat it...”
So eat it! Eat it!
Don’t ya make me repeat it!
Have some more chicken. Have some more pie.
It doesn’t matter if it’s baked or fried
Just eat it! …Eat it! Eat it!
.……...my daughter and her husband are heirs to a very successful chain of restaurants in Austin and manage them all for an elderly mom and dad.
They are also Liberal to the core.
So, this one is a little funny to me.
At Chick-fil-A, we have a program called Shared Table. This is where we donate food that is expired, or as we say, ‘timed out’. Our particular store donates it to the Salvation Army. Once it’s timed out, we put it in plastic bags and put it in the freezer and then give it to the Salvation Army twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
I believe this program is company-wide.
Crazy
Try giving away excess food or game
It’s difficult to be honest
Lazy, annoyed restaurant owners will just re-serve it until it’s gone. Cue the food poisoning breaking news. But hey, we’re becoming more like a good communist country every day!
Feed it to hogs.
And hog farms spring up outside ‘Austin City Limits’.
They should leave bags of it on the front door steps of every council member.
And how do they classify food that was regurgitated back onto a plate?
What about food that has been on the plate of someone who was already ill from something?
Austin was long ago restricted over food donations.
Our only grocery store used to put out expired or an over abundance of food out for free. Expired cereal boxes, bruised produce, several day old bread. Nothing that would harm anyone. Of course, the government ordered them to stop. For a while, they’d give the bread to the old folks home and they would put the bead on the curb for everyone but they eventually had to stop, too. For a while, the grocery could give customers free bruised produce if they said it was for their farm animals but they can’t do that anymore. The last thing to go was selling a big bag of old bananas for $1 that people would snatch up quick to make banana bread. Now, instead of feeding people or animals, they have to dump perfectly good food.
I despise Austin with every fiber in my body but will give them kudos for letting restaurants give coffee grounds for compost. Of course, that’ll be the next thing they’ll nix.
UT students who were for Kavanaugh (color me surprised there’d be even one) had their signs ripped up by libs.
I work for a grocery chain which gives huge amounts of food to Second Day Harvest.
Well when the homeless in Austin go to the bathroom out on the street they are really just ‘recycling’ so nothing to complain about taxpayers.
A burger joint can sell burgers for half price right before closing at night but the manager can’t donate any leftover burgers to a shelter five minutes after closing. Zero logic.
I’m fine with throwing away meat or cooked items if they have sat out or have spoiled but why throw away a box of cereal when it expire the day before? Why throw away bread and produce just because the store got in a new shipment and don’t have room on the shelves for it all?
“It will be interesting to see how long this BS lasts....LOL.”
It will last until twice the number of homeless wind up living under highway 35.
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