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Panda Express kicks this up a notch and has a little bell they ring whenever someone donates their change adding an element of social pressure/shame, super scum

Panda Express kicks this up a notch and has a little bell they ring whenever someone donates their change adding an element of social pressure/shame, super scummy

0x8BADF00D 8y ago
They have to recoup the losses from all the free fortune cookies they give.
rbritton 8y ago
I absolutely hate their charity solicitation. If I’m going to donate to anything, it’s going to be a charity of my own choice after a thorough vetting with no middlemen. Next time I go there, I’m tempted to request they round down my total instead.
masonic 8y ago
They are scummy in general. All the PEs near me stop cooking all their best entree items by 7PM on the theory that customers will accept whatever slop is left... yet they continue to offer all their items over mobile (they'll just happily tell you they "ran out" when you get there).
- aviv 8y ago
  Panda Express is high up there in the list of nastiest fast food places. Pure garbage food. And as you probably know, they will gladly dump a fresh batch of Orange Chicken on top of a 3 hour old batch and so some portion of their entrees are kept on the hot plate for half a day. Nasty. What they do is criminal.
  - lovich 8y ago
    You should perhaps, never look at how food is prepared at any fast food location. At every food prep place I've worked, we only saw the big boss when they were running over to tell us to replace everything because they saw the health inspector. Usually they had the line manager telling us to replace nothing, and firing or reducing hours of employees who followed the posted food safety guides
JauntyHatAngle 8y ago
I would actively avoid donating in that case, because I don't like attention for that kind of thing.
perl4ever 8y ago
If someone's going to make me uncomfortable, I'd stop going there. But if I really still wanted to go there, I'd work on a spiel about the charities I like and when they ask me to donate, I'd ask them to donate.
- Timmah 8y ago
  You're only making it harder on the wage slave behind the check stand. Theyre required to ask.
  - perl4ever 8y ago
    I wasn't suggesting I would pick a random charity just to be vindictive.
nautilus12 8y ago
South Park
JustSomeNobody 8y ago
Ugh I hate that. I don't donate money so that I can stand around saying "Hey, Look what I did!"
benatkin 8y ago
Panda Express is an odd chain, perhaps even odder than Chick-Fil-A (which is closed on Sundays). They participate in Landmark Forum which is a retreat where you spend most of a weekend having some rowdy guy tell you what they think really matters in life. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-corporate-culture-of-Panda-Express-as-terrifying-as-it-looks https://www.quora.com/Is-the-corporate-culture-of-Panda-Expr... Like Chick-Fil-A, their unusual beliefs and practices probably just makes the insiders prouder of the company.

Panda Express kicks this up a notch and has a little bell they ring whenever someone donates their change adding an element of social pressure/shame, super scummy

0x8BADF00D 8y ago

They have to recoup the losses from all the free fortune cookies they give.

rbritton 8y ago

I absolutely hate their charity solicitation. If I’m going to donate to anything, it’s going to be a charity of my own choice after a thorough vetting with no middlemen. Next time I go there, I’m tempted to request they round down my total instead.

masonic 8y ago

They are scummy in general. All the PEs near me stop cooking all their best entree items by 7PM on the theory that customers will accept whatever slop is left... yet they continue to offer all their items over mobile (they'll just happily tell you they "ran out" when you get there).

aviv 8y ago
Panda Express is high up there in the list of nastiest fast food places. Pure garbage food. And as you probably know, they will gladly dump a fresh batch of Orange Chicken on top of a 3 hour old batch and so some portion of their entrees are kept on the hot plate for half a day. Nasty. What they do is criminal.
- lovich 8y ago
  You should perhaps, never look at how food is prepared at any fast food location. At every food prep place I've worked, we only saw the big boss when they were running over to tell us to replace everything because they saw the health inspector. Usually they had the line manager telling us to replace nothing, and firing or reducing hours of employees who followed the posted food safety guides

JauntyHatAngle 8y ago

I would actively avoid donating in that case, because I don't like attention for that kind of thing.

perl4ever 8y ago

If someone's going to make me uncomfortable, I'd stop going there. But if I really still wanted to go there, I'd work on a spiel about the charities I like and when they ask me to donate, I'd ask them to donate.

Timmah 8y ago
You're only making it harder on the wage slave behind the check stand. Theyre required to ask.
- perl4ever 8y ago
  I wasn't suggesting I would pick a random charity just to be vindictive.

nautilus12 8y ago

South Park

JustSomeNobody 8y ago

Ugh I hate that. I don't donate money so that I can stand around saying "Hey, Look what I did!"

benatkin 8y ago

Panda Express is an odd chain, perhaps even odder than Chick-Fil-A (which is closed on Sundays). They participate in Landmark Forum which is a retreat where you spend most of a weekend having some rowdy guy tell you what they think really matters in life. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-corporate-culture-of-Panda-Express-as-terrifying-as-it-looks https://www.quora.com/Is-the-corporate-culture-of-Panda-Expr... Like Chick-Fil-A, their unusual beliefs and practices probably just makes the insiders prouder of the company.