"maxine in ri" > wrote in message
...
On Nov 1, 7:22 pm, Dan Abel > wrote:
> In article >,
>
> "jmcquown" > wrote:
> > "gloria.p" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > > 3. Don't make a mess just because you CAN. We once went to dinner with
> > > someone who insisted on trashing the bread/rolls because "I want to
> > > make
> > > sure they don't serve them again to another table. It's the LAW." It
> > > was
> > > kind of disgusting.
> > What he did sounds terribly disgusting, Gloria. The restaurants I worked
> > in
> > weren't even allowed to offer the untouched rolls and bread or baked
> > potatoes to soup kitchens. Sounds like your dinner friend had some
> > serious
> > mental problems if he was so worried about what was going to be done
> > with
> > the leftover bread. I'm so sorry.
>
> What is wrong with offering untouched food to the next unsuspecting
> diner? (serious question)

Once it's been brought out to the table, you don't know what's
happened to it. Someone could have sneezed on it, picked it up with
dirty hands (how often do people wash their hands before eating at a
restaurant?), or otherwise passed some type of virus onto the food.
With the butter and margarine containers, if they keep going out and
coming back, untouched, they could spoil. And those are just for
starters.

> What then, makes it OK to offer the same food to soup kitchens?

The OP said that it is _not_ ok for the restaurant to offer those to
the soup kitchen. Has to be stuff that hasn't left the kitchen, where
it presumably is still wholesome for someone to eat.

maxine in ri



Thank you, Maxine! Even food that never left the kitchen wasn't allowed
(due to health dept. regulations) ) to be offered to soup kitchens. I used
to cringe at the number of baked potatoes that were tossed out at the end of
a night because they weren't allowed to donate it. I'm sure soup kitchens
could have made a lot of 'baked potato soup' (which is delicious, BTW) and
could have fed a lot of people.

Jill