I work where there is alot of food waste!

United States
March 29, 2009 9:25pm CST
I work in food service at a small college. I see alot of food waste especially when I work in the dishroom! Students are so wasteful! I know some rather take a ton of food then go back for seconds and end of wasteing food! Some students will eat all their food but so many don't care! I know they don't care how much is wasted and some don't realize how much is wasted! It is a never ending situation! Lots of colleges have gone to not using trays to stop so nuch food waste! We might in the furture! Today's society is so wasteful and in just isn't just with food!
3 responses
• United States
30 Mar 09
From my experience working in fast food, it's not only the customers who are wasteful, but the company. In fast food, there is so much garbage and wasted food it is ridiculous. We would fill huge trash cans with food everyday because it was too cold, not prepared properly, or had sat out too long. I was horrified seeing all of this with my own eyes... watching bags of food go out, the food is wrapped in paper, the cups are paper, the straws are plastic, there are drink carriers, not to mention thousands of ketchup packets and whatnot... and that's just what goes out the window!! Behind the scenes, everything is wrapped in plastic, wrapped again, put in a box, tape on the box..... and it all winds up as garbage! It's too bad that food banks are so strict on what kind of food they will take in. I doubt a hungry man on the streets is concerned with his food having been touched by one other person. If it's perfectly good and not lethal to consume, there is a starving person out there somewhere who would eat it. What we need is proper organization...
• United States
30 Mar 09
It is to bad that food that gets wasted can't help feed the hungry! It is a crying shame! Thanks for responding!
• United States
30 Mar 09
I am trying to teach my kids that you only take what you really need. I think that as people we are getting very wasteful and it isnt doing us any favors. I teach them to take a small amount and only eat that so they are not over eating too. It is a lesson that we dont teach to much anymore in this world.
• United States
30 Mar 09
You are right! We need to be teaching kids how not to waste food and start doing it early! Apparently most of the student wher I work never were thought that! Thanks for the response!
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
30 Mar 09
the student who wasted food has no idea how hard to find cent of money but soemday they will learn their own mistakes