If you think restaurants are wasteful, you should see the food waste from many special events. I have seen enough food to feed hundreds of people tossed away a

If you think restaurants are wasteful, you should see the food waste from many special events. I have seen enough food to feed hundreds of people tossed away at the end of events, in a facility that can only host a couple of hundred people. That is before considering kitchen waste or uneaten food that made it to the plate. Food waste in home vs. restaurants is more difficult to compare. Many people will eat food that restaurants would not consider serving, simply because they have no other choice. On the flip side, there are very wasteful household that buy far more than they will consume.