What happens to unconsumed hotel food?

[SSgt Dickweed]

I work in tech, and a big vendor we procured cozies up to their clients by hosting luncheons in five star hotels. There was too much food for this event. If I were a busboy I'd take home the food the chefs studied in France or Hong Kong how to prepare and save on grocery bills. Any of you have experience with this?

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

All the leftover meat will go into a chili bucket or soup bucket.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

I was a bulls boy as a teen and a waiter after that and the place I worked with would let us eat it if it was left over .. think they just threw it out if not

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

Damnit .. busboy

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

I work in tech, and a big vendor we procured cozies up to their clients by hosting luncheons in five star hotels. There was too much food for this event. If I were a busboy I'd take home the food the chefs studied in France or Hong Kong how to prepare and save on grocery bills. Any of you have experience with this?

It really depends .
Sometimes it gets donated.
Sometimes they feed the staff with it .
Sometimes whoever in charge of the event takes it .
Sometimes they demand it be thrown out because they don't want "peasants" eating their food .
It's up to them . Generally they pay for a certain amount of food so they can do whatever they want with it . They usually don't want to deal with it so yeah , we eat it.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

It gets sent to 3rd world countries where warlords set up fight clubs and make starving children fight to the death for it.


Why do you ask?

 

[HereticBD]

Into the trash, which is then locked up so homeless people can't take it.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

All the leftover meat will go into a chili bucket or soup bucket.

It really depends .
Sometimes it gets donated.
Sometimes they feed the staff with it .
Sometimes whoever in charge of the event takes it .
Sometimes they demand it be thrown out because they don't want "peasants" eating their food .
It's up to them . Generally they pay for a certain amount of food so they can do whatever they want with it . They usually don't want to deal with it so yeah , we eat it.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

They send it all to @lsa

He's fat.

 

[650lb Sumo]

I actually lived with a hotel chef who worked night shifts once, and he would bring back platters of tasty food that wasn't needed, in the early hours. He said he could have brought back more if there were more people to eat it. Of course I suspect there was an element of him ordering more to be made than necessary etc.

 

[lsa]

They send it all to @lsa

He's fat.

I could eat.
@Kowboy On Sherdog

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

I could eat.
@Kowboy On Sherdog

Poptarts and a Vanilla Shake this morning. Breakfast of champions.

@helax @Arqueto

 

[Arqueto]

Poptarts and a Vanilla Shake this morning. Breakfast of champions.

@helax @Arqueto

What flavour Poptarts?

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

What flavour Poptarts?

S'mores

 

[mjmj]

I worked setting up banquets as a teen back in the early 90s. Most of the food was taken home by workers in our place. I'm sure there are some places that it's thrown away. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of wasted food in the world comes from the restaurant business.

 

[Arqueto]

S'mores

Don't think we can get those here I like the brown sugar and cinnamon ones but I can't get them anymore.

Send me one in a PM; use the 'attach poptart' button

 

[blaseblase]

Dumpster diving

 

[jx820]

There was a pig farm in Nevada that famously used to buy casino food scraps. They'd cook a slurry of the stuff to decontaminate then slop the hogs with cocktail shrimp and prime rib.

 

[5crew]

They used to be given to staffs or donated. I used to work in a Casino as a croupier for 30 months. Our staff dining area occasionally get special desserts that were for events but unconsumed. Most of the staffs appreciate it.
But as people become more and more anal about free food and companies doesn't want liabilities, they are thrown into trash. Not my company because we have a massive staff number, surely some will appreciate it.

There was a documentary a few years back, for my country, where EXTREME low income people are complaining they receive the same few free food from donation foundation every time. The foundation then encourage people donate more variety instead of just instants noodles, canned sardines and rice. While watching it, I was smh so bad I almost broke my neck. In my mind, fuk them. If you want nice quality food, how about you work for it? Obviously barring people that are physically/medically unable to work. Beggars can't be choosers man.

 

[toasty]

I work in tech, and a big vendor we procured cozies up to their clients by hosting luncheons in five star hotels. There was too much food for this event. If I were a busboy I'd take home the food the chefs studied in France or Hong Kong how to prepare and save on grocery bills. Any of you have experience with this?

Foodrescuehero.org is a Pittsburg based company that has an app for this sort of thing

there are also various places that will pick stuff up for composting or for feeding farm animals.

Bio fuel places will pick up leftover cooking oils too.

This all happens after the staff takes whatever they are allowed to take.