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Wait until anon figures out that there's a waaaaay higher markup on soda/pop than on condiments sold for a distinct and seperate cost, and that's how a lot of franchise restaurants make a large chunk of their profits.
As in, 1,125% percent markup.
As in, if you pay $2 for a soda, it actually cost the fast food place about 0.18 cents.
Not 18 cents, 0.18 cents.
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Also, why would an employee care about ringing up a 50 cent condiment?
... Anon has clearly never worked fast food.
Absolutely chalk full of petty vindictive tyrant bosses that will prevent a promotion, chew you out, take that 50 cents out of your pay, and if you regularly do that, fire you, and possibly even report you to the police for some kind of petty crime that boils down to 'stealing from the company'.
Wagies are often pathetic because their bosses are often evil and cruel, and they can't afford to lose the job.
We threw out GALLONS of food everyday. If that cunt middle manager saw someone getting a to go plate before it was scooped into the trash shed write you up.
It must attract a specific kinda of person.
Yep.
Could feed a lot of homeless or low income people if you take all of that kind of food waste across a whole town or city.
But when non profits pop up to try to do the logistics of that, well now this garbage actually costs more than they can afford.
Petty Tyrants.
People who get off on power; the ability to control and harm and be superior to others is vital to their idea of well-being.
There’s several problems here:
Giving homeless people food you cannot serve due to it being under heat lamps too long isn’t cool. If it’s risky for you it’s riskier for them as they don’t have their own space to be sick in. This is why many hot dishes are thrown out.
Homeless shelters and food assistance programs discourage giving old food as it sends the message to recipients that they aren’t worth getting a fresh meal. It’s about decency.
My mom ran an interim housing program, a food bank, and a homeless shelter. When restaurants gave food they made it for the shelter. It wasn’t their leftovers. The only things that were “old” were the Starbuck’s pastries as they drove them over twice a day and thus the guys at the shelter weren’t getting stale stuff.
Yeah, it attracts people who feel powerless in their own life, so they're desperate for any amount of power they can hold over someone else.
Letting people take home food increases losses as your staff will make extra to take home so it “won’t get thrown out”. As loss is a hugely important metric in restaurants you don’t want to encourage this.
I learned about this years ago when I pulled into a McDonalds at midnight for coffee. Guy said they didn't have any made but would make a pot, and that me buying the cup of coffee paid for the whole large pot.
Not 100% sure, but the margins on coffee are probably nowhere near as high as on fountain drinks.
My guess would be around an order of magnitide less.
Still considerable, but the margin on soft drinks is absurd.
I think bottled water is the next step down from the absurd margins of fountain soda.
You only get about three larges out of a pot of McCafe drip but indeed the packets of coffee are the cheapest commodity Brazilian coffee they can find