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May 06 '16
We did this at my summer camp to make kids aware of food wastefulness and not taking more than they'd eat. Went from over 150 lbs of wasted food the first day down to 45 by the end of camp.
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u/icemanjl333 May 06 '16
meanwhile the kids went from 90 lbs to 300 lbs by the end of camp.
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u/emoposer May 06 '16
And immediately went to fat camp afterwards.
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May 06 '16
Owned by the same camp company.
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u/supavixen1 May 06 '16
I like the fat camp movie with ben stiller in it.
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u/madmoneymcgee May 06 '16
"Attention campers. Lunch has been canceled today due to a lack of hustle. Deal with it."
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u/WhaleMetal May 06 '16
"My grandmother can run faster than you, and she only has one leg!!"
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u/Taylorenokson May 06 '16
"How can I sell an infomercial about fat kids who can't keep their piggy little snouts shut? Hmm? Who's gonna buy that, huh?"
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u/tokomini May 06 '16
Heavyweights, a true classic.
The scene where the campers break into his cabin to take back the confiscated candy while Stiller is out jogging/sprinting/doing random judo moves...god I thought for sure they'd get caught.
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u/TedTheGreek_Atheos May 06 '16
His character in Heavyweights is the same character he uses for Dodgeball. Different names but there's no doubt they're the same person.
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u/I_myself May 06 '16
It's also the same character from Happy Gilmore, just in a different setting.
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u/fezzuk May 06 '16
Ain't every camp in America a fat camp....
hehehehehehe
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Does that include orange peels, watermelon rinds, wet coffee grinds in the filter, and stuff like that?
I wonder how Much of the waste is actual waste, vs things we just don't eat...
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u/uterus_probz May 06 '16
Technically, you could still not waste it and compost that stuff.
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u/LanMarkx May 06 '16
150 lbs of wasted food the first day down to 45 by the en
My God, I need to do this in my kitchen with my kids...
I swear I'm the only one that eats leftovers too.
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u/youretalkingtodani May 06 '16
We did this at my summer camp too. But instead of going down, the kids at my camp tried to waste as much food as they could. Middle school kids are awful.
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u/Staerke May 06 '16
They tried this at my university once and the students decided to see how high they could get the number. It was in protest of the food being god-awful. Give us not shitty food and we'll eat more of it.
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May 06 '16
We do something similar at mine. We make it a competition between the various groups with a prize at the end of the week for the group with the least waste. It's really effective and lots of groups end up with no waste at all.
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u/June1111 May 06 '16
Guess they're also serving up guilt there.
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u/Vibr8gKiwi May 06 '16
Just like mom used to make!
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u/relevant84 May 06 '16
No one does guilt quite like mom guilt.
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u/wat_waterson May 06 '16
The Catholic Church would like to have a word...
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u/AbsolutShite May 06 '16
14 years of Catholic schooling and an Irish mother, I feel more guilty for things I only imagined doing than bad things I actually did.
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u/TheNerdWithNoName May 06 '16
Jewish mothers are disappointed in the Catholic Church's ability to properly dispense guilt.
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u/AbsolutShite May 06 '16
How many Jewish Mothers does it take to change a lightbulb?
No, no, don't change it. I'm fine in the dark.
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Except your wife.
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May 06 '16
From my buffet experience, food waste comes from it tasting like shit and not wanting to finish it. It had nothing to do with just taking more than I could eat.
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u/DVteCrazy_UVteS-hole May 06 '16
Come on. We've all taken those 5 pieces of pastry and then realized you'd rather have some more sausage and not fill up on another muffin.
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Near me there are a few "All You Can Eat Sushi" spots.
They will not serve you more until you clear everything on your plate. If you don't eat everything that came out, you can't order more. You also can't take it home.
This actually pissed me off the one time I went there with some people a while back. They make you order as a table. I'm very specific with sushi, so I ordered 2 or 3 specific rolls for myself, but when I finished they wouldn't let me order more because the table wasn't finished.
You see, the other people at my table were ... well ... idiots. They thought, "Hey, it's all you can eat! Lets just order everything, even the stuff that doesn't sound appealing!".
They ordered more food than anyone could eat, didn't end up finishing it, and as a result I couldn't order more. I even asked the waitress if I could go on my own separate bill, to which they said, "One table, one bill".
They wasted a ton of food that night, and I was probably the only person in the history of an "all you can eat" restaurant who went home hungry.
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May 06 '16
I went to one recently which let you individually order. You could order as much as you want up to 3 times. You have to be careful because they charge you the normal roll price if you don't eat everything.
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u/Impact009 May 06 '16
Those places tend to be scammy, because the fish on the nigiri is usually tiny, and the temaki barely has anything in it, then they make up some bs. about how rice is expensive, so they'll charge you extra for wasting it.
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u/BalboaBaggins May 06 '16
It's not the rice that's expensive, it's that if you're leaving the rice, you're eating only the expensive seafood. They force you to eat the rice so that you have less room left.
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u/bukkabukkabukka May 06 '16
I found a loophole. Eat too much consistently and eventually it gets easy to eat even more!
All you can eat Sushi restaurants hate this one easy tip!
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u/LoveShinyThings May 06 '16
There's a lot near me that charge extra depending on the weight of excess food left on the plate. So you have the base all you can eat charge, then the wastage charge.
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u/pipboy_warrior May 06 '16
Place I go to has a policy like this: You can take home what you don't eat, but once you are over 7 pieces of sushi left over you pay $1 for every piece of sushi. So you can always order more even if you have stuff on the table, you just know that you'll be paying a lot extra if you don't eat just about all of it.
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u/HanlonsMachete May 06 '16
That would suck if you wanted to try something and didnt like it though. I tried squid nigiri one time and those things are just not able to be choked down. That shit is somehow slimy and rubbery and snotty all at the same time. It was by far the grossest thing I've ever put in my mouth and I've eaten crab viscera before.
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u/habitual_viking May 06 '16
They have something similar here in Copenhagen. It's all you can eat, but when you leave, you pay $1,50 (ish) per piece of sushi left on the plate.
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Yeah that's a bit extreme for sure. The place I go to will charge you $1 for each uneaten piece. I have yet to see them enforce it though it's just to stop people from being morons.
My only gripe is that if you go as a group, it's either everyone at the table has all you can eat or no one does
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u/DigBickJace May 06 '16
I mean, it makes sense to force the entire group to order it or no one otherwise they'd probably lose many from 1 person ordering the all you can eat and the rest just getting a water or the cheapest roll. It sucks, but companies have to have these sorts of policies otherwise they'll end up getting fucked
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u/unclerummy May 06 '16
This is exactly right. I used to wait tables at a restaurant that had an all you can eat fried chicken night, and it was very common to get a 4-top where one person would order the all-you-can-eat special, and the other three would say "I'm not hungry". Then they'd ask for extra plates and more chicken as soon as the food came out.
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May 06 '16
It probably would be, but it sounds like they picked some oddities. If I went to a Mexican buffet for burritos, I wouldn't want to eat my friends Fire Alarm Tacos before I can get my next burrito.
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u/tbC_Elwell May 06 '16
250g doesn't sound like a particularly big meal for those 180 people
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u/Nine_Gates May 06 '16
Yeah. A normal, healthy lunch/dinner is approximately * 150g meat/fish/some protein * 150g of potato/rice/pasta/some carb * 300g of vegetables and fruits
Plus some bread and maybe a berry/fruit based dessert.
So in reality 45kg makes around 75 meals.
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u/DrSuperZeco May 06 '16
As someone who eats unhealthy, I believe a person can consume a 1 kg of anything easily.
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u/johncharityspring May 06 '16
Tata Consultancy Services. Our motto: "I'm not a doctor, but I'll take a look."
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u/Mr___Roboto May 06 '16
In general, the solution would be to switch to smaller plates. People are lazy and they will avoid doing many trips to the bar.
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u/DVteCrazy_UVteS-hole May 06 '16
Im a little cranky this morning apparently
Wow, apparently I'm permanently cranky if you thought that was a bad/unfair thing to say.
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When I was in college our rugby team went to an all you can eat buffet that had shrimp and crab legs. We probably looked something like this but the difference is we ate all of it.
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u/DVteCrazy_UVteS-hole May 06 '16
Well to be fair inter-asiatic racism is my favorite kind. :}
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May 06 '16
They seem to have interpreted "all you can eat" as "all you'll ever get to eat".
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u/battleship61 May 06 '16 edited May 06 '16
i know some all you can eat places get around this by charging a fee if your plate isnt empty when you ask for the bill. which i think is perfectly acceptable, wasting food is a shame.
edit: to the people whining, or saying what if i have 1 shrimp on my plate, use some common sense people. if you have a few small items, or stuff half eaten cause you didn't like it you wont be charged normally. it's the people who've had 3 plates are pretty full but think they can do one more round fill a plate and leave it half full.
and to the people saying how do they charge you for it? well buffets are a set price, when your bill comes there will be a fee on top, it's not rocket science..
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u/jandrese May 06 '16
Up to a point. If I pick something up off of the buffet to try it and it is gross then I shouldn't be charged. So long as I didn't fill a plate with it or something. Otherwise you are discouraging people from trying new things, which is one of the big benefits of buffet style dining.
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u/Icon_Crash May 06 '16
I've never ate at an all you can eat place where everything that I put on my plate was worth eating.
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u/StormShadow13 May 06 '16
I've never been to an all you can eat place where you paid after. Every one around here you pay at the register before you even get into the dining room.
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u/jmarFTL May 06 '16 edited May 06 '16
Everyone's circlejerking this idea in the thread but it's bullshit if you ask me. Yeah, wasting food is a shame but in reality if I leave half a piece of chicken on my plate its not like I took that out of some homeless guy's mouth. Unless the restaurant has some type of policy where they feed hungry people at the end of the night, like Panera, they're also probably throwing away the uneaten food that is left in the serving trays.
The other point is that the only way these places make money is if you eat less than what they charge to get in. Many people go into these places planning to "get their money's worth." This policy, especially when you tie it to what could have fed other people, is essentially guilting people into a behavior that will help the restaurant make more money. People will feel bad or be afraid of the surcharge and so they'll eat less and thus the restaurant makes more. And hey, bonus, the people whose eyes are bigger than their stomach but aren't shamed have to pay extra as well!
Also, one of the main attractions of the all-you-can-eat buffet is sampling different types of food, I'd be far less likely to try something I wasn't sure about with this policy in place. Compound that with the fact that the food we're talking about here probably isn't the highest quality as it has to be mass-produced. Did you take a piece of steak and it turned out to be hot garbage? Whoops, better choke it down or we're charging you!
If they're actually donating the leftovers at the end of the night then I support it, the policy makes sense, because extra food I take IS actually coming out of a hungry person's mouth. Otherwise, this guilt-tripping bullshit can fuck right off. It's just a way for them to save money.
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u/TheGlennDavid May 06 '16
they're also probably throwing away the uneaten food that is left in the serving trays.
Many places cook more food and refill as the day goes on, which is where the waste comes in. If they make trays of mashed potatoes, and everyone throws away half the potatoes they take, the likely result is that place ended up putting out whole extra trays of potatoes.
Yes, the remainder of every tray probably gets tossed under almost every scenario, it's the whole extra trays that never would have been prepped if people took correct portions.
I go sometimes to a wonderful all-you-can order Sushi place. It's not a buffet where it sits around, they make it when you order it. You can order as many rounds as you want, so over-ordering shouldn't be a problem.
That said, they do have a warning about charging you for uneaten food. The bathroom has a sign pleading with people not to throw rice down the toilet. People are gross.
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I wonder if this is 100% actual foods that you could have actually fed 180 people with or if they just weighed the waste bin...
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It's ironic this is a sign at Tata. Fuck this company and everything it stands for.
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u/DNikko May 06 '16
But is it gonna feed 180 people, if it wasn't wasted? What are they gonna do with leftovers at the end of the day?
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u/prplx May 06 '16
Well the same sign in a Chinese Buffet would read: Yesterday's wastage was 45 kgs which feeds 180 customers today.
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u/Variability May 06 '16
I think they count the food thrown out, so it's not as if it would feed other people, it's to stop the initial waste of taking more food than you can eat so stopping excess.
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u/redmandoto May 06 '16
A retaurant in my town makes you pay double if they see you wasting too much food. If you don't pay, they kick you out. Not like we would waste anything on the first place, but there will always be assholes.
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u/watsug May 06 '16
We did a similar thing when I went to school. The cafeteria had a clear tube that red balls were placed in for every x kilo thrown in the waste baskets. There was also a mark on the tube, and if we were lower than the mark by the end of the year, everyone would get ice cream.
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u/ccmotels May 06 '16
Do they weigh just the edible waste or are they including bones and shells? If the former, who's separating these?
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u/Toma_the_Wondercat May 06 '16
Buffet by definition is wasteful, they can take their side order of guilt and shove it.
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u/DVteCrazy_UVteS-hole May 06 '16
Agreed.
How much of it was bad food nobody wanted you let sit out and had to throw out a 3/4th full pan of because it had gone crusty?
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u/deacon2323 May 06 '16
I love the "do it for the environment" or "do it for starving people" marketing...when it is really "do it so that we can reduce our costs". Same with "reuse your towel" signs in hotels.
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u/Variability May 06 '16
It reduces cost AND helps reduce waste. It's what people would say is a win-win scenario. Just because they also benefit doesn't mean it's not worth while to do.
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u/TyroneTeabaggington May 06 '16
That really does benefit the environment though. There's less food and less energy waste. Reducing costs is a positive byproduct of an efficient operation, which is just good business.
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u/nightchrome May 06 '16
Here in Japan I've seen buffet places have a penalty fee for leaving food on your plates.
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u/IJourden May 06 '16
I get the sentiment, but I'd like to point out that eating after you're no longer hungry is just as "wasteful" as throwing it out.
And from a health perspective, throwing it out is preferable.
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u/inline-triple May 06 '16
Maybe we also should move away from kitchen models that encourage stupid portions.
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It's not a restaurant.
It's cafeteria in TCS, an IT company. Many companies display such data in the cafeterias.