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.
Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Wait until anon figures out that there’s a waaaaay higher markup on soda/pop, 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.
dogma11@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
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.
lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
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
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
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 others is vital to their idea of well-being.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
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.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
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.
easily3667@lemmus.org 5 weeks ago
Weirdly a lot of overlap with people who work in HR
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
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.