[Carl Vehse]

Apparently the People's Socialist Kakistocracy of Austin believes it can overrule the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

[Telepathic Intruder]

It’s not as if food decomposes overnight, you know.

[Williams]

Years ago my friend attended McDonald’s management training, “Hamburger University”. They through away prepared food every hour. He thought that was wasteful and they should donate it. He didn’t get the job.

[familyop]

"The city hopes businesses donate the extra food to those in need..."

Mmmmmmmmm, carrion!

[Dandy]

They should just ship it to the people that passed the law.

[cherry]

sorry.....this is 2018.....if you “give” good away you better have good lawyers because you know you’re going to get sued for someone getting sick...

[Kickass Conservative]

I was at Costco some years back and I saw a Woman return a large Rib Roast that cost around $80. Beautiful Cut of Beef.

I asked the person who was helping me what they do with it, thinking it went to Charity. She said no, they had to throw it away. I told her I would take it and she laughed. What a waste.

I’m still trying to figure out how People actually return Meat. There was nothing wrong with it, they just changed their minds. I can’t believe Costco lets people do that.

[lastchance]

I am all in favor of reducing food waste but there are valid public health reasons for not giving unused food for human consumption.

[Feckless]

Hanoi in the Hill Country

[Cen-Tejas]

.……...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.

[hoagy62]

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.

[wardaddy]

Crazy

Try giving away excess food or game

It’s difficult to be honest

[bluejean]

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!

[arrogantsob]

Feed it to hogs.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The city hopes businesses donate the extra food to those in need, but they could also give it to local farms or compost it.

Seems like there would be potentially large liability risks in distributing discarded food to people in need or in feeding it to livestock on farms. The last bit - about compost - is most likely what this is about. Food waste thrown in the trash ends up in landfills and generates methane, and methane is a big issue for the environmentalists.

It says something amazing about the extent to which America has conquered the problem of hunger that we now have to deal with too many fat people and too much food being thrown away. For most of human existence, starvation has been much more likely than either of these problems,

[Beagle8U]

And hog farms spring up outside ‘Austin City Limits’.

[School of Rational Thought]

I work for a grocery chain which gives huge amounts of food to Second Day Harvest.

[redcatcherb412]

LOL instead of ‘eat your peas theres starving children in china’ it will be ‘eat your peas or im calling the cops’.

[Delta 21]

Note to self: Never return to Austin, TX.

Curious if the Berkley poop ap will be modified for the Austin fine eateries?

[thingumbob]

Mandatory doggy bags for the customers.

Like it or not, bet a bunch if these leftovers end up in trash cans sitting on the sidewalks in front of the restaurant BUT the restaurants TECHNICALLY didn't throw the leftovers out right? /sarc - sort of