The main concern is that you're going to have business hours and free hours. The more common and accepted free hours are, the more people will just wait and not buy the food.
Then send it to a shelter or food bank of some sort if you don’t want people asking for it at the end of the day. You’re implying that they have to run their business for free which isn’t the case at all lol.
A food bank can't do much with hot prepared food and only the big cities have shelters and they get plenty of donations. In the cities you can get two hot meals a day free no problem. Outside of the cities (and in them) you have SNAP and food banks. Churches if you desperately need something right away. There's going to be exceptions and people lost in the system but we can't really expect Dunkin Donuts to seek these people out.
The simple truth is our stocked grocery stores of cheap food and hot prepared food businesses require a shit ton of waste from farm to factory to table. I work QA at a yogurt factory and we ship out at least 20,000 gallons of perfectly edible and nutritious whey, a cheap source of protein, to be dumped in waste water treatment every single day. Hundreds of pounds of finished product go right in the drain each run just because the first hundred pounds don't look as good as the 7000 pounds behind it. You ever see that guy at the grocery store stocking bread? That's not a store employee, that's the distributor throwing away anything that doesn't look perfect. We waste because we have excess and we're picky.
What do you want to change? Hunger? You'd be in great company, lots of people have dedicated their lives to reduce hunger and there's still work to be done.
Food waste? Changing that is a tall order and honestly I wouldn't know where to begin but I know it would have nothing to do with end product businesses having quality control or giving away leftovers. I'm sure there's very interested parties that love and probably promote keeping the issue and anger focused on stupid social media posts like this. Make enough noise in this context and the solution will be to hide it better from you since the optics is all people seem concerned with here.
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u/First-Fantasy Oct 15 '21
The main concern is that you're going to have business hours and free hours. The more common and accepted free hours are, the more people will just wait and not buy the food.