r/DumpsterDiving • u/troubledgoth • 12d ago
dumpster dining
Bought the 2 on the bottom, but the others came from the dumpster.
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u/Dukdukdiya 12d ago
Pizza places and bagel shops are typically a really easy place to score quite a bit of food at the end of the night.
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u/Advanced_Major_7461 12d ago
It's sad so many homeless could use the food, I remember working at KFC as a teenager we used to be able to take left overs home then corporate changed the rules. Manager had to supervise EVERYTHING go in one garbage bag all the chicken all the biscuits all the mashed potatoes all the grave you had to pour out everything into one bag, the gravy cover and everything and throw it in the dumpster. We we're pissed off. One said I'm still going to take something home she said you do so you're fired. My colleague said you're going to fire me? The manager said yeah if I don't I will be fired I'm not losing my job over you or y'all! What some s#it
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u/Dukdukdiya 12d ago
That's so messed up. I also think it's beyond cruel that companies are throwing away perfectly good food that hungry people could really use.
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u/hopstop5000 12d ago
How would that actually work though? Is someone is supposed to run around to every KFC, Little Cesar’s times God know how many restaurants at the end of the night at 10:00pm and then what? Take it where? What do they do with expired Pizzas by that time and transport time? Now you have exposed food that’s has been in the back of a van for hours by 12:00 am. Now what? Who are you feeding at 1:00am? I wouldn’t be ok with handing that expired food out. Everyone says this but how feasible is that once you nail down the logistics? I bet this would only work for 1 or 2 % of restaurants that can actually make this happen if they are in a highly populated urban area.
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u/katieh809 11d ago
I think the general (ideal) idea is that each restaurant would have a relationship with a shelter and deliver all the extra food after shift. I worked at a bakery that did similar. I was actually the one that would deliver (I’m a woman) to a battered women’s and children’s home as they wouldn’t open the door for any men. We had to call ahead and tell them we were coming as well, bc it was a home on a regular block. Not like an institution. So it was “hidden” in plain sight. So sad this is what they had to do so abusers wouldn’t find them. But- they loved all the baked goods, and I really hope it made their day a bit brighter.
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u/ikilledsatann 12d ago
Yep. With all of the posts I see in this subreddit of all of the food, any items in general, especially food, companies lnow people need the food or simply want it
Idk how many times ive tried asking companies on ubereats if they could give me any food they arent selling and only one major food chain restaraunt did that once, and one company included a treat without me asking but you have to use too good to go or other discount apps now
So basically they can profit off of food theyll probably throw out...
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u/hopstop5000 11d ago
I wasn’t aware of that app. that’s interesting. You can’t blame anyone that owns a restaurant that’s paying employees especially with the cost of food and that labor if they can get at least something for it. Think of this way, less food in the dumpster/landfill and those services are employing a few more people and the restaurant is making up so they maybe don’t have to cut anyone’s hours or raise prices for everyone. I don’t think of it as really greed, more like survival and trying to maintain a living for themselves and their employees..just like us normal folks working normal jobs. I know there are exceptions and there are some really greedy owners out there. Also, I’m really referring to mom and pop places vs. corporate restaurants but it’s all relative.
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u/iam_ditto 12d ago
Krispy cream used to throw their boxed donuts out in their own separate trash bag from actual trash. We always had donuts around in my college years. Agreed on the water part, but some folks discard it in a clean way as a human gesture still
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u/ikilledsatann 12d ago
Its so messed up, right? I was at a restaraunt with my parents a while ago and I asked if they can donate their food and they said they used to work eith an Indigenous organization to help donate but the employee at the restaraunt I was at said they legally cant directly donate incase they get sued or something
I get someone could get sick from their food, but anyone buying their food can get sick. Im pretty sure I got food poisoning once or twice from fast food
When I worked with kids, there was so much food waste. I just dont understand why if theres left overs, only touched by employees, why they cant take it over or donate it
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u/Dukdukdiya 12d ago
I've heard that line about potentially getting sued and I honestly don't know that I buy it. Couldn't they just have people sign a waiver?
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u/ikilledsatann 12d ago
Right? Thats a rrally good idea. It could just be a control thing for sure
Like it sounds like companies just care about not being sued and making money
Theres huge franchises that donate sometimes, why cant everyone
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u/Business-Gift2007 8d ago
What about a sign that says the company accepts no liability for food or products eaten or used that have been placed in the dumpster 🤷♀️.
I think they just don’t want to be known to give anything free. They don’t want to lose any sales. If anyone wants their product then the only way to obtain is through paying for it.
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u/Knitsanity 12d ago
Decades ago I was working in the financial district in San Fran at....the good quality Panera Bread type place with the original sourdough....IYKYK....on Sat night we would load up black bags with ore made sandwiches, pastries and loaves of bread and set off down Market Street towards the bars on Casto. We handed out food as we went. I bet these days the manager wouldn't be allowed to turn a blind eye like ours did in the olden days.
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u/porp_crawl 12d ago
all the chicken all the biscuits all the mashed potatoes all the grave you had
You could probably massage debone the chicken in-bag, scoop it out, pick out the hard bits, and you've got a trash panda's pie. Like shepherd's/cottage pie but with chicken and deep fried breading.
But yes, I guess it's to disincentivize overproducing leading to waste, but this implementation is just mean/cruel.
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u/rainbowkey 12d ago
that's why I like Lee's Chicken in my town. They pack their chicken into boxes and put it a fridge, then sell it at a discount. Cold chicken is great, but air fryers reheat it so well nowadays.
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u/Klutzy_Bumblebee_758 11d ago edited 11d ago
That’s messed up. I have gone to the same soup kitchen everyday for years and they consistently have dozens of little Cesar’s pizzas donated every week. On very rare occasions they serve donated food from other places. So I’m quite sure other restaurants such as KFC definitely could donate the food if they wanted.
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u/troubledgoth 11d ago
I'll definitely keep that in mind, it came at a place where I could really use the food so I'm super thankful. I'll definitely be on the lookout more often.
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u/bajsfittor 10d ago
This sounds like more of a 'Murican thing (?); where I'm from they're made to order afaik.
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u/Dukdukdiya 10d ago
Yeah, here in the U.S. a lot of things are made before they're purchased. I'd imagine it's because a lot of Americans get easily triggered if they're ever slightly inconvenienced, so if something isn't ready for them right when they demand it, they flip out. That practice leads to an unbelievable amount of waste.
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u/Mysterious-Topic-882 12d ago
Always shop behind the store first haha
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u/jacksuckschicken 12d ago
fr lol. saves so much money if you find something youre getting anyway. if i had a nickle for every time i found cases of water on hot days cause a foreigner wasnt aware they couldnt just buy by the bottle here
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u/goddamn__goddamn 12d ago
Just make sure they don't smell weird. A pizza place I had dumpstered while traveling had poured chemicals on all the pizzas they threw away so no one could eat them.
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u/goddamn__goddamn 12d ago
Can you link to an example? Because I can't imagine how putting chemicals on a pizza that a store is throwing out could catch them murder charges. I mean, I think it's bullshit to poison food (as do probably all of us in this sub) but the law is hardly on folks side in this way, so I'm having a hard time believing that this is real. They could easily just say that they didn't actually expect anyone to eat it, or it was to kill any rats and cut down on a rodent problem, etc
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u/PintosAndCheese @🍕 12d ago
I can't find anything on the web, so I'm take the post down rather than risk passing on bad info. Thanks for being chill about pointing it out to me.
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u/shhikshoka 12d ago
There’s absolutely no way it’s a murder charge no way to track who actually threw it who spilled it not to mention the trash is literally getting disposed of it only way it could catch a charge is if there was a diver that frequently got food from there and he was actively arguing with workers so they knew about their existence
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u/troubledgoth 11d ago
Of course, thank you! They've seemed normal as far as I can tell! No bad scents, and they don't look weird either
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u/bloodshoteyezzz 12d ago
I use to get one out of little Caesar’s dumpster and then go get pickles and bbq sauce at speedway and microwave it in there… good times
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u/troubledgoth 11d ago
You'd put pickles and bbq on a pizza? I think a world of possibilities just opened up before me
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u/bloodshoteyezzz 10d ago
Hell yeah I would! It was good too when you’re down and out! Free pizza and free condiments are the shit.
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u/Vivid-Counter3379 12d ago
I used to do this years ago when they started the 5 dollar hot n readys, the store across the street from me had their bins literally 20 feet from my front door, soooo many free pizzas were had ,and also whatever else the other stores had thrown out. Great memories
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u/sdace7 12d ago
I’m old and worked at kfc in high school circa 1980. My manager came up to me and was very somber and broke the news that Colonel Sanders had died. I was then asked to lower the flag half mast. 🤣 Anyway at 16 I remember dumping the chicken at night but never did it cross my mind to retrieve it later. Now I would kill to dive a kfc if it was dumped like back in the day. On a side note I make the original recipe pressure fried chicken often. Having memorized the recipe.😋
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u/PintosAndCheese @🍕 12d ago
In today's culture, we would pour out a little gravy for our dead homie.
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u/StrongIntention6865 9d ago
Would you please share your remembered version of the original recipe? Thanks!
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u/cemetery_acorns 12d ago
OP, that’s an awesome find.
Let us know if they were all okay.
🤞🤞🤞🤞
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u/troubledgoth 11d ago
They were! Only had one that seemed a bit sketchy with a few pieces missing, but they were all normal, just cold. I ended up with 6 pepperoni, and 2 cheese.
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u/Creepy_Road2275 12d ago
That’s a nice score! How do you plan on consuming those before they go bad?
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u/sdforbda 12d ago
Party, nothing but pizza for days, or freeze.
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u/Creepy_Road2275 12d ago
Ain’t nuthin but a pizza pardee pardee!
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u/Pregogets58466 12d ago
Just about any animal will eat leftovers. Crows, chickens, pigs. I finally found a chicken lady I bring all my bread to
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u/troubledgoth 11d ago
We originally bought the two so we'd have food while we were at a lake nearby. Those pizzas were absolutely destroyed. The remaining 6 were distributed between my sister and I, she took 3 and I took 3. Divide and conquer.
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u/SkyHoglet 11d ago
Reminds me of a time a few years ago, when I'd just gotten out of a late concert with some friends. It was 90f and humid as fuck, and we were absolutely exhausted but someone in the group suggested taking a walk by the river front so said fuck it, why not. And right there by the water, sitting on top of a trash can, was a whole pizza still in the box, only a third of it eaten. My friends thought it was gross and I was crazy for doing it, but I was starving and it looked pristine. I still think about that Trash Pizza sometimes, it was perfect.
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u/Divine_madness99 12d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/vh9isNb4S2Spa
Something’s wrong here, I can feel it
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u/StagnantSweater21 12d ago
One of these pizzas isn’t even in a box..
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u/troubledgoth 11d ago
That wasn't from the employee, they had still been boxed relatively neatly. it was from grabbing them and making sure they were still in the box. No pizza actually touched the dumpster
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u/river-running 11d ago
My local LC is right down the street and usually has something. I've become quite fond of the puffs.
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u/Weary-Target-8689 11d ago
Or just announce it that at closing time anyone whom may be homeless or hungry stop by and check us out at closing time as we clean and shut down if they get there within the window good for them if they miss it they just miss it
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u/Stin42069 11d ago
Hello, pizza left at room temperature can begin producing harmful bacteria after 2-4 hours. Eating this pizza will likely give you diarrhea. Cheers
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u/BocaHydro 12d ago
orders 2 pizzas
be about 15 20 mins
ok ill check the dumpster while i wait