PURE INSANITY!!

[Hotwired]

How come Gregg's et al, don't throw away masses of food? They let their shelves get empty by the end of the day if you take a look at their stores, yet they have not lost masses of customers because of this. That's good competent management right there, make the right amount of product you need for the day instead of vastly overstocking.

Greggs makes/defrosts/cooks items on the premises in batches throughout the day.

It is not hard to predict from hour to hour how many sausage rolls you need available or to react to demand when you can have product available very rapidly.

They will as a starter have charts or at least experienced staff who organise what needs to be ready by when to keep a reasonably stocked display.

Parts of a supermarket DO operate like that, the hot food section doing roast drumsticks for example.

That's extremely short term prediction of demand and supply can be turned up or down by how much you pull out of your storage to cook. A big enough cold store will have them covered fine.

But potatoes from various farms to central distribution and then to various stores is an educated long term guess based on past sales and expected events and cannot react to sudden demand or lack thereof.

 

[KatanaDV20]

Completely and utterly agree with you. What you saw at your work is the tip of a Europe-wide iceberg of utter waste. And Im sure we all see this on a local level as well. I know friends who just toss stuff a DAY out of date. They need to stop this ASAP.

Like the OP Ive had milk 6-7 days OOD with no ill effects. Just use your nose and examine it when poured into a glass! Geez!

Its just shocking just shocking how the UK allows this to happen.

 

[mattyjim123]

On a side note, we have to throw stuff out that has been 'damaged' too which I understand, but it still annoys me to see! Today, I was working on break and cakes. Some new york bagels come in a box, and the tape had stuck to one of the packets through the gap, I tore it off carefully, but it still tore a small (1cm) hole in the bottom. Bin. It had come into the shop that day. Happened with 2 packets of NYB.

On a plus side, I bought some organic milk for 99p that goes 'out of date' today. That'll give me moist cereal for a week!

 

[Energize]

Greggs makes/defrosts/cooks items on the premises in batches throughout the day.

Right, like the supermarket bakery that is wasting 47%...

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Granted this is a waste of food, but I can somewhat understand the reasoning behind this. In a hospital where viruses can be prominent, taking food into a patients room/ward, it could potentially come into contact with molecules that are carrying/contain a virus, so after taking the food out of the kitchen, it should be considered consumed.

Ahhh, my bad - I should have said that I work at a mental hospital. We have "houses" instead of wards and every patient have their own room etc. We as a hospital cook our own food i.e. not outsourced. Sometimes not all of the portions are taken in any given sitting and they just sit on the counter and goes down the waste an hour later. Patients have asked us many many times why staff can't grab the unwanted food in that 1-hour window, and we tell them it's because it changes their tax code due to it being a "benefit in kind", rather than it being virus-related. I don't get a say in this and it doesn't concern me anyway as I don't work directly with patients, but it annoys me immensely that we are chucking out food in this fashion. Personally I don't think that it should be classed as a benefit in kind because it's not every day that staff would potentially get a free dinner. It's pot luck. I mean, if I attend a conference, a team building day, a training course or a work's party where food is provided for free, the taxman doesn't get a cut out of our wages for that does he? Talk about inconsistent.