'The US is a magical place': Dunkin' Donuts worker shares shocking video of dozens of doughnuts being tossed in the TRASH at the end of his shift, claiming he'd get FIRED if he ate one

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[–]HiddenFox 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

My bunch of my friends all worked at KFC during high school. At the time they could take home leftovers at the end of the day.

So of course a lady that worked there would routinely put on 24 pieces of chicken about 20 minutes before close and ruined it for everyone. She was ultimately fired for working a scam at the drive though.

Point is it only takes one to ruin it for all. I understand why a lot of places have policies like this... it's a shame though.

[–]Fiyanggu 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well, the easy solution is to fire the bad apple as opposed to changing the process. I have been to KFCs at the end of the day and in trying to order a 3 piece meal, they told they'd give me a family meal at a discount or if I wanted to buy a dozen biscuits, they'd throw in a family meal.

[–]carn0ld03 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Having worked as a supervisor and manager I can say /u/HiddenFox is correct. One rotten apple is all it takes to spoil the rest. That's why managers are expected to fire everyone on the shift who worked alongside that one bad apple, which is why it's in the employees best interest to catch the bad apples as soon as possible with audio/video evidence as well so they're covered for liability purposes. It's one of the reasons why some will dispose of unsold food to non-profits organizations who will feed homeless people at their own locations.

[–]LordoftheFlies 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

There was a McDonald's near a place I used to live that was required by management to dispose of the previous day's unsold stuff (mostly apple pies) in locked garbage bins. When I asked one of the workers there (who used to hook me up with said pies by the bag if I asked when a manager wasn't around) why they didn't just give this stuff to homeless people, they told me it was for two reasons.

Foremost, they didn't want homeless people (entirely too many of whom in that area were hardcore addicts) to start congregating around the location. The other reason was a liability issue. Basically, if they gave the stuff away, and someone got sick off of it (or just sick in general) and claimed it was because the food was "expired," it was a potential legal clusterfuck. Now, I knew the pies were still perfectly fine, and the worker had no fucks to give about what was a temp job for them, so I asked and they gave, and it was all good; I would end up taking home the largest size bag that McD's had, sometimes two, stuff to bursting with unsold apple pie, and occasionally other stuff too. Lasted not quite a year.

Naturally though, someone had to ruin things for everyone else, and in this case it was a speckle-faced late teen/early 20s permavirgin who decided that being a rat was sure to get him laid when he ran off and tattled to the particular assistant manager that he was desperate to fuck.

[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

His bosses are doing his health a favour.

[–]jerkwad152 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You think that's bad... I worked at Sam's Club for a couple of years cutting meat. The amount of rotisserie chickens they have to throw away each day is fucking egregious.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's nothing. Imagine what every supermarket is binning every single day.

[–]Fiyanggu 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Local donut place would put the leftover donuts in boxes and set them at the end of the street by the gas station for passersby to grab one or more. This happened will into the 90's. Not sure if they still do it.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

A better system would let employees buy them for maybe 70% off. I'd be fine with that. In China if stuff is leftover at the end of the day they sell it for like 80% off to customers.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We have olio and good to go apps in the UK where stores can give stuff away at the end of the day.

We also do pickups you the local food bank.

However it doesn't work if you have lazy staff or they don't have time to bag it up.

[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh jeez this again: "Corporate America wastes food because it hates Americans" or some such drivel.

The practice is completely driven by economics. The potential liability -- essentially lawsuits for personal injury and fines from regulatory agencies -- of giving away 'old' food is much much higher than any utility that giving it to the food bank or homeless people or even to their employees might bring. And there are costs involved in making sure the distribution of the food is done is a fair and safe manner. Not to mention you can easily picture the posts on social media about the crappy stale doughnuts DD dared give out for free to the homeless HOW FUCKING DARE THEY!!!!!!!

Pillory the industrial food complex for not donating money to social programs all you want BUT stop being idiots about the discarded food. What do you think the marginal cost of a doughnut is? It's pennies. They make them by the millions exactly because the savings from the economies of scale well offset any waste as a result of excess production.

And besides we're talking about fucking doughnuts. Street people would be better off eating grass than that crap.

Now to be clear I am not in support of wasting food, but in the bigger picture that waste is insignificant. And besides if it really bothers you then stop patronizing those companies. But not one of you idiots is going to start paying $20 a dozen for bespoke carbon-neutral dolphin-safe doughnuts. You can't have your cheap food and bitch about it too, you know.