I worked at Cinnabon in high school, and we use to throw all perfectly fine cinnamon buns out. I was the baker because I was the young one who wouldn’t be hung over on Sunday morning for the mixing of the dough for the week so it felt like such a waste of my time and effort. There was some homeless people near the food court dumpster at night so I put the buns in their boxes in a clean bag and would just give it to them when I took the other trash out too. I explained it could only happen when I was working which they memorized. I got the girl who closed the Subway to give them food too sometimes. Well one night after close I was walking to my car and this man came out of no where and chased me to my car. It was before we all had cell phones, and no one cared that they were leaving a high schooler to close. Well one of the homeless guys took him down, and they all beat the guy pretty bad. I will always feed those who need a meal.
When I was a teen and homeless, we would go into the back streets and ‘bin dive’ for food. Subway threw out so much food that we went into the store and asked if they could just bag it so it wouldn’t get spoiled.
Next night - they had poured bleach all over the food.
There was a case in my country where a well-known baker from the capital gave bread at the end of the day to the homeless and needful. He never made a big deal out of it, it was just his thing... Until someone reported him and he was slammed with a ridiculous fine due to "tax evasion". It was terrible and the story got fairly big in the media. This was before the online funding campaigns, too, and he never requested any help via the press, but there was a Facebook group where people assembled to help him out.
Unfortunately, the law wasn't altered to allow for this practice, but the bakers across the country started a pay it forward sort of service: you can purchase their products for the people who can't afford them, and they will set the products aside for anyone to collect for free. I try to buy at bakeries that support this initiative whenever I can and do my part.
Oh, and if you're wondering what happened with the bakery that started it all... they still do their thing with massive public support. I think they were even fined once more, but they stick to their ideas regardless.
Skulllover89 on August 22nd, 2020 at 08:10 UTC »
I worked at Cinnabon in high school, and we use to throw all perfectly fine cinnamon buns out. I was the baker because I was the young one who wouldn’t be hung over on Sunday morning for the mixing of the dough for the week so it felt like such a waste of my time and effort. There was some homeless people near the food court dumpster at night so I put the buns in their boxes in a clean bag and would just give it to them when I took the other trash out too. I explained it could only happen when I was working which they memorized. I got the girl who closed the Subway to give them food too sometimes. Well one night after close I was walking to my car and this man came out of no where and chased me to my car. It was before we all had cell phones, and no one cared that they were leaving a high schooler to close. Well one of the homeless guys took him down, and they all beat the guy pretty bad. I will always feed those who need a meal.
HasaDiga-Eebowai on August 22nd, 2020 at 09:36 UTC »
When I was a teen and homeless, we would go into the back streets and ‘bin dive’ for food. Subway threw out so much food that we went into the store and asked if they could just bag it so it wouldn’t get spoiled.
Next night - they had poured bleach all over the food.
grotesquesque on August 22nd, 2020 at 09:37 UTC »
There was a case in my country where a well-known baker from the capital gave bread at the end of the day to the homeless and needful. He never made a big deal out of it, it was just his thing... Until someone reported him and he was slammed with a ridiculous fine due to "tax evasion". It was terrible and the story got fairly big in the media. This was before the online funding campaigns, too, and he never requested any help via the press, but there was a Facebook group where people assembled to help him out.
Unfortunately, the law wasn't altered to allow for this practice, but the bakers across the country started a pay it forward sort of service: you can purchase their products for the people who can't afford them, and they will set the products aside for anyone to collect for free. I try to buy at bakeries that support this initiative whenever I can and do my part.
Oh, and if you're wondering what happened with the bakery that started it all... they still do their thing with massive public support. I think they were even fined once more, but they stick to their ideas regardless.