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There's a lot of possibilities, but one that springs to mind is that restaurants are quite wasteful compared to home cooks.
by jaegrqualm 1y ago
There's a lot of possibilities, but one that springs to mind is that restaurants are quite wasteful compared to home cooks.
- Larrikin 1y agoWell run restaurants waste as little food as possible, since that's all profit being thrown away.
- tylerflick 1y agoHaving run a restaurant, this was not my experience.
- jrflowers 1y agoIs this a theoretical restaurant or a real one? From what I understand real restaurants waste food by necessity because (for one example) mistakes are inevitable, customers are picky/mercurial, and any prepared dish that is deemed less than suitable for one customer for any reason can’t be sold to any customer. Also equipment fails, vendors mess up, etc.
- nitwit005 1y agoYou'd need perfect forecasting to not waste food. Order exactly enough food, and serve each customer exactly what they'd eat.
- dietr1ch 1y agoIt's not about forecasting, but about being able to give food away instead of dumping it because "lost profits" and idiotic lawsuits on free food.
- nitwit005 1y agoYou skipped over the other part of what I wrote. The uneaten food that people leave on their plates is often more significant.
- xandrius 1y agoIf saving 10c costs time worth more than that then it's not worth it. Ends there, really. A friend used to work at a known cupcake chain in London and she literally threw out 30+ cupcakes a day. Whenever I was around, I'd try to convince her not to throw them but giving the box to some homeless or random passerby. Although that wasn't a common event given the boss. So no, many places are stupidly wasteful, sometimes because of silly legislation.