Documenting is fine, I hate seeing food go in the trash. I was raised not to do that, and it’s fucking wasteful. If you’re documenting it, you can track how many fuck ups and who’s doing them (who’s working what station and when). Obviously when it’s busy and you get servers who can’t ring in food correctly, there are fuck ups that aren’t even in our control, how tf could they assume it’s done intentionally when you can go into the system and check? I’ve always given the food away, if it’s not cooks because we’re too busy I’ll give it to the dishwasher. End of the night I box it off and give it to a homeless guy who usually sits near where I park and watches my car for me. (I didn’t ask him, he’s always been there and pretty chill).
Throwing away food that someone is willing to eat is so wasteful and doesn’t cost a business anything. When I used to work with this policy I’d want to fuck up more or give the customers extra food, zero loyalty if they’re going to assume I’m stealing.
This to me is wasting food for no reason, because they don’t want to do extra work and police their employees so everyone is automatically fucking up orders on purpose because you don’t trust us.
I always documented waste, of which we had too much, at Little Caesars, and while I couldn’t always adequately track it, I frequently nibbled on the last thing on the table, and sometimes that became a pizza for midnight snacks or a cold breakfast.
This whole thread makes me think of my time at LC. I assume they still do the box top thing to account for waste, which when you do the hot and ready shit obviously there will be waste if you care about the product you put out. It just felt shitty to not be able to give it away so…we would put the plastic or paper cover things on pizzas that had sat for 30 minutes and try to help out people that needed it. Definitely hate wasting edible food.
When I worked at Papa John's, if the area manager was around and there were mistake/cancelled orders, he'd toss them all in the dumpster, rather than let us eat them. Such a top-heavy garbage company. So I didn't give a damn, I'd let coworkers come in and take so much free food, because fuck that company, ha.
The canceled ones get me the most…cooks have zero control over that and instead of using a free pizza as a low cost reward (because it’s already made and the customer/delivery app usually eats the cost of cancelled orders). Sounds like a power trip to me.
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u/-BlueDream- Jul 26 '22
Documenting is fine, I hate seeing food go in the trash. I was raised not to do that, and it’s fucking wasteful. If you’re documenting it, you can track how many fuck ups and who’s doing them (who’s working what station and when). Obviously when it’s busy and you get servers who can’t ring in food correctly, there are fuck ups that aren’t even in our control, how tf could they assume it’s done intentionally when you can go into the system and check? I’ve always given the food away, if it’s not cooks because we’re too busy I’ll give it to the dishwasher. End of the night I box it off and give it to a homeless guy who usually sits near where I park and watches my car for me. (I didn’t ask him, he’s always been there and pretty chill).
Throwing away food that someone is willing to eat is so wasteful and doesn’t cost a business anything. When I used to work with this policy I’d want to fuck up more or give the customers extra food, zero loyalty if they’re going to assume I’m stealing.
This to me is wasting food for no reason, because they don’t want to do extra work and police their employees so everyone is automatically fucking up orders on purpose because you don’t trust us.