The Daily Populous Saturday February 20th, 2021 night edition
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RealPucki on February 19th, 2021 at 16:22 UTC »

I once worked for a bakery in Sydney selling bread on a market. I always had to bring back the leftovers to the bakery, so they could check if the numbers are right and mirror the sales from the market.

It was always hard to throw away the leftovers, so once I gained the trust of my boss and he stopped checking the numbers, I started giving away all the leftovers on the drive back to the bakery. I knew a couple of hostels, so I just stopped there, looked for someone inside to help me carry the crates and filled up the kitchen with bread.

Never told my boss about it though as I had the feeling that he wouldn't like that.

Long story short, that's how I got the nickname "bread jesus" :D

LordGlow on February 19th, 2021 at 16:26 UTC »

I used to work at a bagel shop. We would close at about 3 or 4 in the afternoon, due to primarily being a breakfast and lunch place. All leftover bagels at the end of the day, we would bag up and place on the counter. We shared the building occupancy with a coffee shop that stayed open later and so customers would have access to the bagels. We kept a donation jar out and all donations would go back into the community via community projects. If we ended a day and for whatever miscalculations had a lot of leftovers, enough to fill a trash bag, I would take those bagels down to a homeless area and pass them out.

As it turns out, being a part of the community and helping out actually raises sales and the owners have successfully launched other restaurants around town, due to their bagel success.

knifebootsmotojacket on February 19th, 2021 at 17:25 UTC »

I hate these kind of policies.

I used to work at a coffee shop that also sold baked goods, soups, sandwiches, etc. and we were not allowed to give people who asked for food any of the leftover stuff on the premises and had to either throw it out or take it home for “personal consumption”.

I started keeping clean plastic bins in my car, and would load them up whenever I had a closing shift - everything left at the end of the night went with me, usually 5-6 large containers of soup, a gallon of coffee, lots of bakery items and sometimes a handful of sandwiches. If someone asked for food before close and I knew they were going hungry, I would have them meet me as soon as I pulled out of the parking lot so I was no longer “on premises”, and let them take whatever they needed. Anything else I would drive and stop at a couple homeless encampments on my way home to deliver.

It felt like the only right thing to do, especially living in a cold climate and not really having much financial means myself. I spent a little bit of time homeless in my life, and a hot meal on a cold night is sometimes the only hope you have in the day.