Interesting. Consideration is key; but not above all else. Imagine being one of the staff from the article who felt obligated to finish the food out of some misguided guilt.
shermantanktop 9/2/2025|
Perhaps they hire special staff members with enormous and undiscriminating appetites.
stmw 9/2/2025||
I first thought this was going to be a story about big tech company bureaucracy, where the staff ate all the good ideas.
chihuahua 9/2/2025|
"What happened to the other plutonium core?"
"The staff ate it."
yaur 9/3/2025||
we watched a cooking competition show last year where one of the contestants was tasked with breaking down a 100lb fish in order to prepare 4 entree sized portions of which the judges likely only took a bite or two... food waste in this kind of show is a given but this was totally galling.
snvzz 9/3/2025||
I would go with "Care has been taken to minimize food waste." or some paraphrasing of it.
bell-cot 9/3/2025|
Even if that would be more accurate - if your audience is accustomed to seeing "the staff ate it later", and that is only a feel-good checkbox for them (vs. a metric that anyone cares about optimizing), then it is better to go with what your audience is accustomed to. Otherwise, you're running off into the weeds.
wiradikusuma 9/2/2025||
It's the opposite of restaurants, usually they don't let their staff eat leftovers.
valiant55 9/2/2025||
I see both sides because you don't want staff intentionally making "mistakes" just to get some food but I worked for almost a decade in restaurants and only McDonald's didnt let you eat the food.
0cf8612b2e1e 9/2/2025|||
This must be a high end/low end thing. When I worked at a family diner, it was a free for all on the buffet leftovers which could not be recycled for the following day.
spookie 9/2/2025|||
Restaurant staff usually eats before service, no? At least where I'm from.
rcxdude 9/2/2025||
And it's usually made from leftovers in the kitchen, as I understand it.
spookie 9/4/2025||
Not really, at least where I worked. Just the daily meal as a customer would get.
bravetraveler 9/2/2025|||
Instead: a discount for what you unloaded from the frozen truck last week... and just cooked
zahlman 9/2/2025|||
From what I've seen, it's totally ordinary for "sandwich artists" to prepare lunch for themselves from the ingredients on display.
snvzz 9/3/2025|||
If anything, the rodent staff will.
Crows will also help themselves.
GuinansEyebrows 9/2/2025||
depends on how close to the bus/dish position you are. i used to eat leftover tiramisu from the bus tub all the time when i washed dishes at an italian restaurant.
...not that i would do that today, but i was poor, and it was good :)
blaze33 9/3/2025||
Ok, now if we took a picture of all the food in the world, a more accurate caption would be:
"The staff threw away 30 to 40% of it and ate the rest later."