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Dan Ur on May 12, 2006 - 9:18pm

I don't go out to eat often, but when I do I notice one thing. At the Buffets, people waste a lot of food.

I cook as a hobby, and I grow food as a hobby, and I study food plants as a hobby. It shocks me that even those that come from low food regions in a few years of the Plenty of the US, adopt the same food habits of the Rest of the Citizens, or more accurately the wasteful folks.

We as Americans waste a lot of Food. We have laws in some cities that state that once its cooked and not eaten by the customer, we have to throw it out. We have "Grand Buffets" where the left over food could feed some families for WEEKS!! It all goes to waste!

So yeah, as the end of our "Easy Eating" Lifestyle comes to and end we will see the end of the Buffets, or at least the end of them as we now know them to be.

Hey I am moving to a small town,, How many buffets are there, I bet not a single one. Gee I wonder why??

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Donal on May 13, 2006 - 10:37am

It isn't just buffets. Fast food restaurants throw away enormous amounts of unsold food. They usually keep enough food sitting there to fill your order immediately (unless you order something unexpected) so they can call it fast food. Whatever isn't bought in a fairly brief period, gets tossed.
I used to volunteer at a soup kitchen, and they received boxes and boxes of donuts that weren't quite fresh enough to meet Dunkin's standards. I wonder how many donuts Dunkin and KK toss every day