I'm sitting at a restaurant with my friend, who just told the waiter that he's done, despite a third of his food being left.
So I'm wondering...
Couldn't restaurants store their leftover food, and sell it for a third of the price? Locals would go and ask if they have any leftovers to buy, put in a bag, and leave.
There could be a centralized "leftover app" that broadcasts all local restaurants that have available leftovers.
This seems like such a no-brainer idea.
unsanitary
No.
Massive health code violation.
I think there have been programs in the past where they can give it away to the homeless or whatever, but the normal thing to do is to leave it in the trash and then trash diggers can decide what they want to eat.
t. been eating out of the trash for ages; people throw out a lot of perfectly good eats and it's not that hard to figure out what you're willing to trust.
Would the average person give a shit?
If I'm at work, and a co-worker offers me half of his meal....I'll take it.
That's disgusting
Why is this on pol
Unironically kill yourself you cheap fuck. Also get off Sup Forums and socialize with your friend
That's your coworker, you know him
Why eat food that other strangers have
If you want leftovers so bad, dumpster dive faggot
No. Once the food leaves the custody of the restaurant, it can't be unused.
> order a meal
> eat half
> pee on the other half.
> restaurant sells it to your neighbor.
The closest you can get, and some do this already, is that restaurants will donate prepared but unsold food to charities.
I'm saying that logically, there's no difference.
Once the customer looks at the massive price drop, they won't care.
Still if it's fundamentally against health codes then it can't be done, unless some loophole is exposed somehow in some way.
I think you're starting to get into ethical territory like why do we think it's wrong to sell organs or blood.
Its a serious healthcode violation, however I have known restaurant owners donate to homeless shelters.
t. bartender/server 27 years
There's a liberal university in the NW that gives it away. meaning, there's a "scroungers" table where student leave their plates of half-eaten food, and other students eat it.
>I'm saying that logically, there's no difference.
Right, no difference from leftovers sold by a restaurant and leftovers from a dumpster? Most places can't even cook food to health codes, you expect them to find a proper way to store the shit before its sold? Kys
Ah, I'm not talking about food that leaves the door.
Rather, the restaurant would store leftover food and store it for perhaps a couple days, available for anybody to buy for a third of the original price before they throw it out.
>come up with "Revolutionary idea" (which is actually a retarded idea)
>tells everyone online
Jesus. You know what else is a "no-brainer"? Your fucking empty head. Stupidest goddamn idea I've heard in quite awhile.
there is a reason why places in the USA don't give away food. they're afraid of being sued when some faggot gets sick
Crazy idea:
Smaller portions
Really though why did this even get posted here
Anyone who agrees with op is a jew
See, that's lest trustworthy than just hitting up the garbage after lunch or whatever. When people toss unneeded food in the trash that's just where they discard it without a thought, same as food that was put out for people to eat and it didn't all get eaten and nobody cleaned it up yet.
When you dedicate a table to it then you're introducing a trust question because whoever had the food first had to intentionally put it there. I'd rather stick to the free market approach. Plenty of well-meaning folk would put perfectly good food in the trash with the tacit understanding that scavengers are going to come get it, and therefore do so safely.
But it's not stupid, from a pragmatic standpoint.
It makes no sense that we allow companies to offer skydiving and bungee jumping services, but won't allow me to pick up a cheap as hell but solid meal.
Since being a student that lives on hisnown, I've fundamentally looked at my society entirely different.
Ya but the average person isn't going to want food that someone else was digging into and doing who-knows-what with.
Following your reasoning (at least your goal), the restaurant would be better off selling 1/2 portions at 1/2 the price.
That way, you get the amount you want, and the next guy gets the other 1/2 as a freshly prepared meal.
>implying the food belongs to the restaurant
That food belongs to the customer who ordered it. It’s theirs to do with. Most will take it home to eat later. Because, you know, it’s their food, the bought it.
Are you actually that much of a filthy dirtball irl to even post this thread?
>buying used food that was on someone else plate with someone elses fork and someone elses saliva
yeah no thanks
>This seems like such a no-brainer idea.
i could not agree more
Why not just offer to donate half your meal if you know you can't finish it? Nobody wants shit thats already been forked
Not possible. There's no possible way to trust that part of somebody else's food that they've been eating has been untouched unless you're at the table and have been paying attention.
The only way to do it is on a purely voluntary basis for the scavenger because otherwise it introduces the opportunity for ulterior motives on the part of the donator.
>take huge messy shit.
>don't wash hands
>eat half of hamburger and get my hands all over it.
>let restaurant take it back for food recycling or whatever you were going to call it.
>enjoy knowledge that some cheap bastard had to eat my shit.
This is like buying tylenol at a discount because the seal was broken.
Maybe that's why OP is a retard?
surely recovering scraps of food left on plates at resturants is the key to solving the systemic system of weaponized starvation and logistics that the masses use to control other parts of the world and keep them uncompetitive.
or at the very least it will prevent the people willing to eat off other peoples pates for a third the price from starving even though more of them will probably die of disease from this plan then starvation. a bit of spit on a fork touching some lasagne and if there's a disease in that spit, that lasagne is no longer any good. and many people don't even know they are sick or dont care so its a bad idea and a risky system.
Do you degenerates not take your uneaten food home to reheat later? Or at least give to a pet?
Actually that's a good idea. Have a restaurant give the leftovers to a dog shelter.
i worded that wrong, replace the word masses with establishment or whatever.
anyways look to the economics and logistics of food waste and look for fixes there in distribution.
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While unsanitary for human consumption I bet some green eateries would be willing to separate the food and then let farms pick it up for eco. I have heard of green companies that pick up the food waste and compost it straight as well.
who knows what kind of things you could get from eating from someone else's plate
>stds
Add in steps for patenting the idea and begging for VC gibs and you've pretty much described how silicon valley works.
and by distribution i dont mean how food is distributed to people at the store. but rather how it got to the store from the farm, and all the waste and loss that can occur in the process.
i remember antarctica was going to be the worlds freezer cause apparantly the air was super dry and cold. and all the "waste" from overproduction and economic reasons would not be burned or thrown out by saved on antarctica like the worlds freezer. read it in scientific american i think, it may have just been a cover story for antarctic expeditions and funding i dunno. its clearly not happening but something along those lines might be nice. but i dont think there is a way
>so many people here willing to eat shit out of a dumpster or off someone's half-finished plate
Jesus christ, what did Obama do to the country?
Hungry NEETs with healthy immune systems.
That would be good, but it would be hard to do. People simply don't bother separating their trash well enough for the original model of recycling to work, so they wound up with the unfortunate truth that single-stream recycling works better in many cases.
Even if they had the bus boys take the remains away it's still all mixed up with other trash and stuff. Where's the economic incentive? But to whatever extent it might work, composting seems like a pretty good deal. They're trial running it in some of the more (((progressive))) places, but it seems not to be catching on very well.
Free food is free food mate. I'm not going to bother walking all the way down to pay for decent takeout, but if somebody else does and leaves something neat for me then hey why let that go to waste?
The unsanitary components appear to be thoroughly ripped apart already, so let's look at this part:
>There could be a centralized "leftover app" that broadcasts all local restaurants that have available leftovers.
Yeah that's exactly what a restaurant needs: a bunch of smelly cheapskates coming in to negotiate prices on used steaks, complaining that their day-old crab cake tastes funny, and trying to bum some fries off of someone who isn't going to eat there again after this experience.
fuckin lawyers would have a field day
>hmm, I'm too broke to afford full-priced french fries...lemme open up Trashagram on my $1000 iphone and see what I can get for a quarter.
Now you understand the mindset of a nigger.
>cheaping out on day-old stuff is niggery, but literally eating out of a dumpster is fine
That's correct. You're taking the Jewish money out of the equation. That's the difference.
I'll give a jew a quarter before I eat out of a fucking dumpster...
Probably a wise decision. Eating out of the trash is an art, and sadly something that humans have lost compared to their animal counterparts.
Garbage picking is fine as long as it can be cleaned and used in a socially acceptable way.
I got a decent coffee table, and I could build a death ray if I had space in my vehicle to take home a rear projection TV.
>fuck humanity with their "hygiene", I'd rather dine with the raccoons and the maggots.
If you can't tell the difference between what's good to eat and what isn't then don't eat out of the trash. Is this not plain common sense?
>If you can't tell the difference between what's good to eat and what isn't
I can.
It's the biggest reason why I don't eat out of fucking dumpsters.
Why the actual fuck is this on Sup Forums?
I don't see where the problem is, then. I wouldn't touch most of the stuff in the trash without heavy long gloves, let alone get within smelling distance without a respirator unless I had to.
no just do it for bums guy