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I am not misinformed, I was instead describing my experience with one corporation's reluctance to provide the food to food banks. One thing they were able to d
by cartoonworld 3y ago
I am not misinformed, I was instead describing my experience with one corporation's reluctance to provide the food to food banks.
One thing they were able to do is freeze their precooked egg patties that would have been thrown away for texture reasons for later use in a protein stock for a charitable kitchen's cafeteria in some way that I was not informed of.
This corporation was a prepared food retailer, not a grocery store in case I have been too unclear. In their case they used nitrogen-packed presliced tomato pans to streamline food prep for their line, which is why I chose tomatos as the example.
- AlbertCory 3y agoYou said, "Quality dates are a big part of spoilage in the food service industry, so the quality departments in all of these organizations try to min-max the dates to best represent their required quality, and of course their requirements are longevity, palatability and mostly sales. If an otherwise reputable food retailer begins serving a secondary market with what is definitionally substandard products, it opens a large and murky doorway to liabilities extending far beyond a mere lawsuit. What if the next kitchen mishandles the food and serves gross food to people in need? Even hungry poor people will dislike week old, vinegary tomato slices." "the food service industry" : that term doesn't seem limited to prepared food retailers, if that's what you meant. as for "week old, vinegary tomato slices" : Second Harvest, at least, would outright reject those.
- cartoonworld 3y agoSorry to be misleading. Thank you for the information.
- AlbertCory 3y agono problem. Actually, I'm wondering who does take prepared food as a donation? It would have to go straight onto a table somewhere, since the shelf life would be almost zero.