When I found out the trainee in the breakfast shift “saves leftovers”
..what is he gonna do with that??
by MoonCrumbles
44 Comments
Zappomia
Its stuff like this that the health inspector picks up and looks at you with those WTF eyes.
Mellie_g
What the actual fuck? I’ve never seen such a thing in life. Is it for an omni-stock?
slipperyslope0187
You don’t keep a trough for the foh seagulls
geferttt
I had a place where we saved kitchen leftovers for a wildlife sanctuary a couple days a week. Dunno whats going on here though.
DeepSeaDarkness
Maybe he’s planning to take it home?
BotBotzie
I want to go with dogfood but thats a lot of cheese.
DandyElLione
Had a coworker that owned their own pigs and would take whole garbage bags of rice, bread and lettuce home with them every night.
apzrman
scraps for animals maybe? I keep a small bucket of scraps for a local who has chickens. Picks them up daily
Professional_Gap7737
That’s potentially an $800 grazing table…
MoonCrumbles
I do wish it’d be scraps for animals in some form, but this dude literally just thought that crap could be repurposed for omelettes and stuff. He didn’t pass the exam, or the rerun for that matter. Thank god.🤷🏻♀️
Nauti
I do too. It’s good to minimize food waste. I would just quit if someone said I couldn’t take what would be wasted anyway because of some idiotic policy.
jesrp1284
I mean it looks like the start of a decent compost pile.
SirNob1007
Op, can you just confirm that these are leftovers from the kitchen and not customers plates, so i can sleep better. Thanks. Lol.
Saltycook
That’s not acceptable.
What are they gonna make, diarrhea soup?
czarface404
Feel like he seen someone do this for prep trash or something and thought they were saving it? Like he’s not wrong but that’s not how you go about it.
BBQslave
Did he label and date it at least?
Senior-Reality-25
Trainee has a biomethane fermentation plant?
c0ng0pr0
Hell yeah… F# food waste
hititwithyourpurse
Oh… i thought these were personal saves
NullableThought
Uh, maybe he’s hungry
When you’re starving, everything starts to look appetizing
ostellastella
I worked briefly for an Indian owned casino. One of the best perks of working there was all you can eat in one setting free food! Once done eating, you would take your tray of leftovers and scrape them into large plastic bins that looked like barrels with a small opening at the top for you to scrape the leftovers into. All the food got put together, no matter what it was. At 4 am, flatbed trucks would come an collect these food leftover bins/barrels and take them to a huge pig farm which was owned by the tribe. Breakfast is served!
plotthick
Oh no, He probably came from a home that has very little food, and went hungry a lot as a kid. There’s cheese and meat and fresh veg… things you don’t get when you’re a very poor, very hungry child.
I hope he has a good enough home now that he can take it home and feel a little more secure.
AccountNumber478
Friend of a friend back in the 80s used to work at a local golf course country club type restaurant. He’d regularly bring home prime cuts of steak (maybe sliced once or twice or not cooked to the diner’s satisfaction or whatever and sent back) and other goodies to share with his roomies.
Medical_Spy
The best part is that it’s frozen.
DooMnGloom13
I worked with a couple individuals at a farm to table place that would keep all their scraps, one to repurpose at home, the other had a buddy with pigs and they’d take everything that wasn’t citrus. The restaurant composted as well.
FindOneInEveryCar
“Someone might eat it” – my mother
Turd_Wrangler_Guy
Is your trainee Carl Weather’s from Arrested Development?
Baby we got a stew going!
420S8N
This comes off as more depressing than funny. Seems like the guy could be in a tough spot considering you said that it isn’t intended for animal scraps. Please try not to pass judgement on people trying to do what they can to make it. No one in a kitchen should go hungry.
jzzanthapuss
Those months when you have to choose to either pay rent or buy food, working in the food service industry can be a real life saver. They throw away so much food.
DrWhoisOverRated
Growing up with food insecurity and then working in a restaurant and seeing food get thrown out can be a real mindfuck, and a tough mental hurdle to get over.
Even now, after 20 years in the business and 10 years in a management role I still take leftovers like this home because I don’t want to see them thrown out.
skynwalkr
We aren’t allowed to take home any scraps. Which I think is fucked.
Turtle9015
Tell them to remember to take stuff home. If you see stuff like this left just throw it out. They are prob food insecure no reason to embarass them about it.
Tell them its unaceptable to leave it in the fridge overnight. The way its packaged makes me think its not allowed and they threw it together fast.
To people thinking this is discusting remember you will eat anything if hungry enough. Its prob prep scraps so not like anyone else has touched it.
We dont know their situation and its going in the trash anyways. Just show some empathy.
Potential-Change9124
That’s how I did it when I was a trainee too. Now I use them to make popsicles. Don’t knock it til you try it.
gourdammit
/r/hoarding
lilly_kilgore
All of our scraps go to someone for something if possible. I bring home prob 50 lbs of veggie scraps a week for composting. We’ve got someone with rabbits, someone with pigs. People take home stuff to their dogs. And we never let anyone go home hungry. We also regularly bring home or give away produce that isn’t picture perfect. My personal favorite is when the boss man gives me a 60lb box of potatoes because they’ve got too many spots or something. Or compound butters they aren’t using for specials anymore.
No one who works in a kitchen should go home hungry.
Captain_Outrageous
Know a steakhouse guy who keeps bones and feeds them to his 7 chihuahuas. Each one has the muscular build of a pit bull.
jmarzy
When I worked in the dish tank at a Vietnamese restaurant I was super poor and couldn’t afford to feed myself so I would eat customer leftovers.
Never got sick, and the food was good 🤷🏻♂️
00tool
what could go wrong if this was saved while the food was being made in the kitchen? Just want to know the reason because I do this at home, collect scraps and make a delicious soup, and I dont want to get sick.
DifficultCurrent7
Maybe they are really poor and really hungry?
efcomovil
Trash pandas love this one trick
Pale_Crew_4864
I had a coworker who did this, and added them into a soup to sell.
Needless to say when she was fired I was elated
Biggaynina
Throw it all in a pot. Add water. Got yo self a stew!
Torlara
💀
StarFuzzy
We also had a coworker who could take the compost home for her pigs. Turns out Janet was shoving all sorts of expensive meats in that tub to take home for herself. What’s wrong with people!
44 Comments
Its stuff like this that the health inspector picks up and looks at you with those WTF eyes.
What the actual fuck? I’ve never seen such a thing in life. Is it for an omni-stock?
You don’t keep a trough for the foh seagulls
I had a place where we saved kitchen leftovers for a wildlife sanctuary a couple days a week. Dunno whats going on here though.
Maybe he’s planning to take it home?
I want to go with dogfood but thats a lot of cheese.
Had a coworker that owned their own pigs and would take whole garbage bags of rice, bread and lettuce home with them every night.
scraps for animals maybe? I keep a small bucket of scraps for a local who has chickens. Picks them up daily
That’s potentially an $800 grazing table…
I do wish it’d be scraps for animals in some form, but this dude literally just thought that crap could be repurposed for omelettes and stuff.
He didn’t pass the exam, or the rerun for that matter. Thank god.🤷🏻♀️
I do too. It’s good to minimize food waste. I would just quit if someone said I couldn’t take what would be wasted anyway because of some idiotic policy.
I mean it looks like the start of a decent compost pile.
Op, can you just confirm that these are leftovers from the kitchen and not customers plates, so i can sleep better. Thanks. Lol.
That’s not acceptable.
What are they gonna make, diarrhea soup?
Feel like he seen someone do this for prep trash or something and thought they were saving it? Like he’s not wrong but that’s not how you go about it.
Did he label and date it at least?
Trainee has a biomethane fermentation plant?
Hell yeah… F# food waste
Oh… i thought these were personal saves
Uh, maybe he’s hungry
When you’re starving, everything starts to look appetizing
I worked briefly for an Indian owned casino. One of the best perks of working there was all you can eat in one setting free food! Once done eating, you would take your tray of leftovers and scrape them into large plastic bins that looked like barrels with a small opening at the top for you to scrape the leftovers into. All the food got put together, no matter what it was. At 4 am, flatbed trucks would come an collect these food leftover bins/barrels and take them to a huge pig farm which was owned by the tribe. Breakfast is served!
Oh no, He probably came from a home that has very little food, and went hungry a lot as a kid. There’s cheese and meat and fresh veg… things you don’t get when you’re a very poor, very hungry child.
I hope he has a good enough home now that he can take it home and feel a little more secure.
Friend of a friend back in the 80s used to work at a local golf course country club type restaurant. He’d regularly bring home prime cuts of steak (maybe sliced once or twice or not cooked to the diner’s satisfaction or whatever and sent back) and other goodies to share with his roomies.
The best part is that it’s frozen.
I worked with a couple individuals at a farm to table place that would keep all their scraps, one to repurpose at home, the other had a buddy with pigs and they’d take everything that wasn’t citrus. The restaurant composted as well.
“Someone might eat it” – my mother
Is your trainee Carl Weather’s from Arrested Development?
Baby we got a stew going!
This comes off as more depressing than funny. Seems like the guy could be in a tough spot considering you said that it isn’t intended for animal scraps. Please try not to pass judgement on people trying to do what they can to make it. No one in a kitchen should go hungry.
Those months when you have to choose to either pay rent or buy food, working in the food service industry can be a real life saver. They throw away so much food.
Growing up with food insecurity and then working in a restaurant and seeing food get thrown out can be a real mindfuck, and a tough mental hurdle to get over.
Even now, after 20 years in the business and 10 years in a management role I still take leftovers like this home because I don’t want to see them thrown out.
We aren’t allowed to take home any scraps. Which I think is fucked.
Tell them to remember to take stuff home. If you see stuff like this left just throw it out. They are prob food insecure no reason to embarass them about it.
Tell them its unaceptable to leave it in the fridge overnight. The way its packaged makes me think its not allowed and they threw it together fast.
To people thinking this is discusting remember you will eat anything if hungry enough. Its prob prep scraps so not like anyone else has touched it.
We dont know their situation and its going in the trash anyways. Just show some empathy.
That’s how I did it when I was a trainee too. Now I use them to make popsicles. Don’t knock it til you try it.
/r/hoarding
All of our scraps go to someone for something if possible. I bring home prob 50 lbs of veggie scraps a week for composting. We’ve got someone with rabbits, someone with pigs. People take home stuff to their dogs. And we never let anyone go home hungry. We also regularly bring home or give away produce that isn’t picture perfect. My personal favorite is when the boss man gives me a 60lb box of potatoes because they’ve got too many spots or something. Or compound butters they aren’t using for specials anymore.
No one who works in a kitchen should go home hungry.
Know a steakhouse guy who keeps bones and feeds them to his 7 chihuahuas. Each one has the muscular build of a pit bull.
When I worked in the dish tank at a Vietnamese restaurant I was super poor and couldn’t afford to feed myself so I would eat customer leftovers.
Never got sick, and the food was good 🤷🏻♂️
what could go wrong if this was saved while the food was being made in the kitchen? Just want to know the reason because I do this at home, collect scraps and make a delicious soup, and I dont want to get sick.
Maybe they are really poor and really hungry?
Trash pandas love this one trick
I had a coworker who did this, and added them into a soup to sell.
Needless to say when she was fired I was elated
Throw it all in a pot. Add water. Got yo self a stew!
💀
We also had a coworker who could take the compost home for her pigs. Turns out Janet was shoving all sorts of expensive meats in that tub to take home for herself. What’s wrong with people!