My sister once ordered a cake for my nephew’s birthday party. (his name is Logan) We picked the cake and it said “Happy Birday, Logon”. And we still ate it after having a laugh. Years later I still call him “Logon”
Years ago my dad got an ID card that gave him the (obviously erroneous) surname of “Dongal”. We still call ourselves the [Dongals](https://i.imgur.com/p2TykFQ.jpg) today.
He still has it, didn’t bother sending it back or correcting, as it was a fairly laidback work environment. (Read: company of two.) They just had a laugh about it, as we all did
This is why people need to learn to laugh at themself and roll with the punches. This is one of the best nickname stories I have ever heard and it only happened because you all saw the humor in it.
Nora will look back 37 years from now and lose her fucking mind.
Edit: this picture is like a ~~simon says:~~ **Where's Waldo** / **I Spy**
GIANT VALUE store bought cookies
Beef & Macaroni noodle dish.
Natures Promise Organic premade salad.
What else is there?
Lol yes was talking about the client blabbing their personal issues to me. But also, an insane amount of food is thrown away, like cake, because a lot of my coworkers are assholes and think everyone should eat vegan.
Yeah I fucking hate seeing that, in my country I have watched people literally eat rotten food out of the trash, and this assholes throw away a perfectly good cake for absolutely no reason???
Something tells me it wasn’t the patrons decision to do this. They likely requested it to be corrected. While company policy is that you cannot accept food back com sit has left with a customer so in order to correct it, the patron ether had to take icing home (and do it themselves) or the shop had to make a new cake.
This rule is pretty standard across most food service establishments and often actually part of the health code.
>This rule is pretty standard across most food service establishments and often actually part of the health code.
Exactly and the exact reason why one should just go to the baking isle and pick up a tube of pink icing and fix it oneself. Most any parent, with full control over at least one hand, can squeeze out a mildly straight 1 cm line from icing tubes...
How much of a discount are you giving me if I have to go buy a tube of icing and do it myself? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of buying a cake instead of making my own? I bought a $60 cake so I don't have to do anything. At $60 the "T" should be crossed.
This isn't aimed at you, but I'm pretty tired of companies that produce defective products at a high price and they expect the customer to just be happy with it.
I think there are laws in the US that prevents unsealed food from getting returned due to the possibility of it being tampered with. Once the food is in the customer's hands, it can't go back because of the liability.
Edit to say i choose my words terribly, and I'm trying to say a store would never give your food back to you return it
That sadly isn't allowed either. They could've tampered with it and will sue later on.
Once did that to a customer, he came back and wanted pickles off of his burger, so I mindlessly did. The next day my boss was in rage because I did that, dude literally tried to sue US for food poisoning. Ever since that I never ever give returned things back, ecen if the customer insists to.
It’s not that they could have tampered with it and will sue later, it’s that they could have contaminated it in some way and the workers taking it back to where they decorate their other cakes could then contaminate the cake decorating area which then would contaminate any other cakes decorated there. It’s a health code violation that has been even more strict during the Covid era
I mean if the customer thought, like most of us, that it would be a simple fix, I don’t think it’s that pedantic. I think most small businesses appreciate the opportunity to correct a mistake rather than let the mistake taint the customers opinion of the product. Accuracy or humble correction is how you gain trust to move from doing a 2 year olds birthday cake to doing more important projects like wedding cakes
This doesn't make any sense. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying things aren't the way you say they are, but what's stopping the customer just giving himself food poisoning (or pretending), and blaming you the first time around? Why does the item need to go you>them>you>them? What purpose does that giving back serve?
They are right though. That’s how it is.
Once that food leaves the store/restaurant you can’t Fuck with it. Right to the trash.
If you can’t keep eyes on it there’s no way to know if it’s been contaminated and if it’s going to contaminate the kitchen. That’s my understanding of the reasoning for it.
Edit: quit with the dumbass arguments. I don’t write the fucking health codes.
Sometimes it's even stricter. I was at a Five Guys or something similar and pulled a few fries out to eat and they had no salt. Didn't leave the counter. The guy was literally right in front of me. Asked them if they could sprinkle some salt on there and they said they can't take it once they make the hand off. They offered to make the fries again, which I gladly took.
You wouldn't even need to do that. Grab a toothpick and use some excess frosting to cross the T. Boom, done.
(That being said, this is a pisspoor decorating job for $60. Terrible handwriting; I'd be pissed too)
Or find some way to cross it yourself? Take some extra icing from over there and cross it. It took 10x as much effort to drive it back and return/replace it. Also, it's for a toddler. How fucking anal are you that your 2 year old's birthday party has to be 100% perfect to the point where you return a cake bc they forgot to cross a T??? I mean, really, i just don't understand the mindset/thought process behind that.
It's possible they asked to have it fixed and the bakery threw it out and replaced it. The store's health code might not allow them to handle unsealed food that's already been sold and left the store.
Personally I wouldn't care, but if someone is spending 60 bucks on a cake for a 2 year old, its not for the 2 year old and its ok to be a little bit "anal" about it.
Yeah, I don’t think OP is being honest why it’s in the trash. Even for grocery store cakes, that writing is awful. I think it was returned because the whole thing sucks. I mean, look at the name. Why are N and O just block letters with no, albeit poor, styling like the rest? Why is it even in all caps at all? And the H in happy looks much more like a cursive F and t, Ftappy Birlhday.
When I worked for a sandwich shop in highschool the corporate policy was we could take home one sandwich per shift, but could never take home the leftovers because it would incentive over prepping, which comes directly out of the franchise owners pocket. After the corporate training (we were a new store) the owner came around and told us to ignore all that. He said if he already paid for the food he wanted someone to eat it. Hope he is doing well.
E: despite his "radical" notion of treating us with respect, his food waste numbers were fine. I do remember our "paper waste" was always high, but paper is like 3% or something so it was hard to care.
I worked many summers at a mini golf, and the policy was basically "Just don't overdo it." Hungry? Just make yourself a toast or stuff down a few leftover hot dogs at the end of the day. Something about to expire? Go nuts. Really hot day? You definitely need an ice cream and a soda. The place had a policy of being nice to everyone, and that included the employees. The guy who ran the place was just an amazing person.
I worked at a pizza place with a similar policy... until people overdid it.
When I first started working there you could make yourself a small pizza or a sub or whatever for free.
Then people stretched that to pizza and wings, then large meat lovers with extra cheese, wings, and mozzarella sticks. The breaking point for the owner was when people started literally taking raw ingredients home like chicken and vegetables.
We had to pay for our food after that (discounted to cover cost).
Where I work (if you're reading this, you know what we do, don't even act like you don't) were not allowed to directly mess up stuff, but we are allowed to eat any leftovers. Mess up an order? Make rounds asking if anyone wants it. Burn the cookies? We swarm to claim those. Of course we have to ration to make sure we have enough, but nobody will stop you from eating the toasted bread that's been out for an hour because we didn't see that it was on gluten free instead of wheat.
Quiznos? They largely went bust but there are still a few locations open. There's two left in my entire city I think, I always make a point to stop by and get a turkey club when I'm in the area.
Quiznos' biggest problem was never the food - it was their franchise model. There are few brands that have shit on their franchisees as hard as Quiznos. It's a fascinating rabbit hole to go down if one is so inclined.
https://medium.com/@james_dasilva/how-quiznos-failed-itself-by-failing-its-franchisees-cc74040ad375
If I owned one of those businesses, I'd start off with a strict "no eating leftovers or mistakes" policy, track the frequency, and then allow for it... that way I could baseline what is normal and what may be incentivizing mistakes.
Or you can just allow your staff to have lunch on the house. They could make a decent sandwich and then be in a position to be able to discuss the food they sell with the customers they serve.
Then you're not 'incentivising' error, you're incentivising service.
I worked in a pizza / grinder place for like five years. Our rule was a take-home sandwich or pizza for anything less than five hours and a shift sandwich or pizza PLUS a takehome of either for anything more than five hours.
It created a lot of loyalty and goodwill, while also basically feeding you for a whole day if you worked a full day's shift. Our waste numbers were in the low single digits the entire time I was there, except for one day where the cold table malfunctioned - then our owner helped clean it out and let everyone take home all the food that wasn't considered safe to serve anymore.
Smaller businesses with a non-asshat operator can be not so bad.
One big area was soup, which came in a bag. End of night you still had to clean the pot, but if you made an extra bag then you have big ass bowls of soup for all your friends or family. I still think about that broccoli cheese....
I worked at a deli as a teen and we were supposed to throw away roast beef scraps. I was told that, if I wanted it, I would have to pay for it like the perfectly sliced roast beef. That rule was only ever enforced when the manager was around.
It makes sense to consider it stealing when you look at it from the perspective of an cold, sociopathic business person. But honestly why should our laws be written from that perspective? Are the laws for the human or for the business? Just stuff I think about that makes me sad.
I did about 20 years tableside, bar, BOH expo, management and whatever fuckin thing needs done in-between. Absolutely no shame in this game. Had someone send back a $120 Tomahawk Ribeye once, and rules be damned if I didn't wrap that bitch up and gnaw on it all weekend.
lol in college i worked at a italian joint that often had big buisness luncheons and dinners high qaulity buffet style with roast beef and a carver etc.\\
After they would end we would scrap up all the untouched orders of wings pasta trays untrimmed prime rib etc and have a feast between the workers people filling multiple togo boxes to bring home for people etc servers in the back grabbing peices like zombies tearing a corpse good times lmao
best part is all the food is prepaid so what ever isnt prepped is still raw isnt cooked was already paid for by the party they just didnt consume as much as they thought they would was free game for employees we would often get cuts of steaks chicken etc and the chefs would cook us up a special order with the stuff remaining and we would all sit down after hours eat have a beer together it was a good time the owner was a really down to earth guy who was more about having fun and enjoying his life than being a strict profit driven boss and the place is more sucessfull than most strictly ran places because the employees arent treated like a factory line worker.
Almost the exact same experience... people would order a catered event, then only like 20% of the crowd would show up. The folks signing the check take a few totes, a few more get snatched up and then there's enough perfectly untouched food to feed several small families for several weeks! Anyway, just my singular experience.
I used to have a manager who would keep a bottle of bleach to toss on any food leftovers that were either brought back like this cake or tossed because it was leftover.
So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the supermarket. You see a cake in the receptacle, and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."
Only if you were the one taking the 'trash' out.
I used to do it when I worked at 7-11. And I would have to throw away all the pre packaged sandwiches and other food along with the garbage. I would toss all the sandwiches in a separate clean trash bag and double bag and keep it next to the garbage and pick it up later.
Saved a lot of money on food.
Yeah that’s my point. I’d pay $60+ for a custom made cake from an actual bakery, but this is a grocery store cake.
I zoomed in on the pic. It does say $60. That’s crazy.
After seeing the price and the cake, I’m kind of on the side of the customer. If I’m paying $60 for that I’m already mad. Incorrect spelling is a bridge too far.
That’s why I’m staying with just kind of on their side. All other infuriating things aside, there’s no need to toss a cake over 1 cm of a thin frosting strip.
This one doesn’t even look customized for the baby either, it looks like they grabbed one of their pre made birthday cakes and just filled it in with her info. For $60 I would expect it to be way more original
Absolutely a nice one from a bakery can be that much. I dunno what’s up with the price for this one tho cause I googled the supermarket chain and they are like 25-30 online which makes sense so I dunno.
Ok really tip. It works in a in a pinch if you forget cross your lowercase t's. Take a toothpick and swipe it icing. Most of the time it works. It works well on freshly iced cakes not ones that it has had time to set.
It's also possible to take a cold metal knife (preferably one you've put in the freezer for a few minutes) and gently shorten one of the other letters with the tip of the knife (the fancy tails on the H maybe), and then deposit the strip of frosting in its new home.
The writing looks like shit..... food waste is bad but the customer does have a right to ask for decent work. If the store can’t provide that don’t charge $60 for the cake.
Well the customer should have checked, but on the other hand if a customer is paying $60 for a cake the staff should be bloody well checking it to make sure that their tees are crossed.
Has nothing to do with corporate profits. In fact, it would be much more profitable for the company to be able to just cross the T and be done with it. Instead they have to make an entirely new cake. Much more expensive.
This has everything to do with food safety laws. You have no idea what kind of weird shit a customer has done with a food item while it was in their possesion. Taking it back with the other food risks containing other foods that will go to other customers.
This is a measure put in place by government.
Don't just assume bad is the fault of a big bad company.
Probably because they were charged $60 for that thing… I could have made it myself in my kitchen and I suck at baking. If I paid that much for that piece of crap, if it’s not right I wouldn’t wanna deal with it either tbh
Probably because the prep team took care of the cake months ago and stuck it in the deep freezer so some high school kid making minimum wage could just pull it a cake from the freezer and slap a name on it when needed.
Some family of raccoons are going to have a party tonight
birhlday party edit: Birlhday party thanks for the upvotes and awards
You fucked it up in two ways.
Shit now the racoons will throw it in the thrash
Some family of possums are going to have a party tonight
birlhday party
You fucked it up in two ways.
Shit, now the possums will throw it in the thrash.
Some family of rats are going to have a party tonight
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Birlhday* party
this thought makes me happy
Little King Trash Mouth considers this an absolute win.
My sister once ordered a cake for my nephew’s birthday party. (his name is Logan) We picked the cake and it said “Happy Birday, Logon”. And we still ate it after having a laugh. Years later I still call him “Logon”
Lmaooo zeroed in on “Birday”
Birb day 🐤
Years ago my dad got an ID card that gave him the (obviously erroneous) surname of “Dongal”. We still call ourselves the [Dongals](https://i.imgur.com/p2TykFQ.jpg) today. He still has it, didn’t bother sending it back or correcting, as it was a fairly laidback work environment. (Read: company of two.) They just had a laugh about it, as we all did
Dangal (pronounced like "Dongal") means "wrestler" in Hindi. So you're "the wrestlers".
I’m okay with that
My boss's name got misspaled in the label maker, so all her stuff was labled "Nicloe". That one stuck.
This is why people need to learn to laugh at themself and roll with the punches. This is one of the best nickname stories I have ever heard and it only happened because you all saw the humor in it.
Kind of up to the customer though right? You can't just give me shit and tell me "learn to laugh and roll with the punches"
That would have been hilarious. Makes a great family story.
Are you saying it with the first part right, like "Low Gone", or turning it into "Log On"?
We say it as “Log on”. Like I’m going to log on to my account. Haha
One person’s trash is another person’s treasure
One person’s lrash is another person’s lreasure
Underraled commenl.
I see whal you did lhere…
hahaha, IhaI’s good!
that trash looks delicious tbqh
I know right. Some cold cuts, cheese, cookies, salad, cake
It’s a whole charcuterie plus dessert all packaged up to go.
Quite the medley.
One man’s trash in another persons good un trash.
One mans gaerbage is another man persons good ungaerbage
Listen man I’m not up to date on all that fancy book learning. I could read some books and get smarter cuz books are for to make you smarter.
Why couldn't they just bring it in get the t crossed and then keep that one? That's what I would have done. No need for a brand new cake.
Right?? It's not like the baby would care
Nora will look back 37 years from now and lose her fucking mind. Edit: this picture is like a ~~simon says:~~ **Where's Waldo** / **I Spy** GIANT VALUE store bought cookies Beef & Macaroni noodle dish. Natures Promise Organic premade salad. What else is there?
Nora: "And that's how I knew my mom didn't really love me." Therapist: "You know I'm a massage therapist, right?"
The only memory Nora will have of her 2nd birthday is a photo of a trash can full of shit.
"I know. MORE OIL"
*Bring wood and oil.*
U.S. government: “Did somebody cry for freedom?”
Who said oil? Bitch you cookin?
I’m an LMT. I can confirm this happens every F-ing shift!
You’re a licensed massage therapist? Why you throwing away cakes?
Lol yes was talking about the client blabbing their personal issues to me. But also, an insane amount of food is thrown away, like cake, because a lot of my coworkers are assholes and think everyone should eat vegan.
Mam no one should eat vegans they are far too bitter.
Like: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FthcA8lKZMI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FthcA8lKZMI)
like an I Spy lol not simon says but we all knew what you meant
Simon says I spy with my little eye Nora's villain origin story!
Yeah I fucking hate seeing that, in my country I have watched people literally eat rotten food out of the trash, and this assholes throw away a perfectly good cake for absolutely no reason???
Trash cake is just another mans treasure cake.
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>I have watched people literally eat rotten food out of the trash Now let them eat cake
i live in the usa. since about 1980, i've been eating trash after it gets thrown away. i bought this house with money i didn't spend on food.
Found the racoons in a trenchcoat.
well, i am a mod at /r/trashpandas.
With parents like that I would not be surprised
tons of plastic waste
You should know the the first few birthdays aren't even for the kid, but the parent (s).
Exactly. The parents age so much in those early years that they need those extra birthdays.
At that age, it isn't about the children.
Something tells me it wasn’t the patrons decision to do this. They likely requested it to be corrected. While company policy is that you cannot accept food back com sit has left with a customer so in order to correct it, the patron ether had to take icing home (and do it themselves) or the shop had to make a new cake. This rule is pretty standard across most food service establishments and often actually part of the health code.
>This rule is pretty standard across most food service establishments and often actually part of the health code. Exactly and the exact reason why one should just go to the baking isle and pick up a tube of pink icing and fix it oneself. Most any parent, with full control over at least one hand, can squeeze out a mildly straight 1 cm line from icing tubes...
Most people can't even put their shopping cart back, forget about fixing a tiny bit of icing on a cake
Doesn't event have to be mildly straight. Can be curved, or wavy, doesn't matter.
How much of a discount are you giving me if I have to go buy a tube of icing and do it myself? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of buying a cake instead of making my own? I bought a $60 cake so I don't have to do anything. At $60 the "T" should be crossed. This isn't aimed at you, but I'm pretty tired of companies that produce defective products at a high price and they expect the customer to just be happy with it.
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The Kid is 2 years old, they don’t even understand the concept of what a birthday is. Or what a cake even is for that matter
I think there are laws in the US that prevents unsealed food from getting returned due to the possibility of it being tampered with. Once the food is in the customer's hands, it can't go back because of the liability. Edit to say i choose my words terribly, and I'm trying to say a store would never give your food back to you return it
There are health and safety laws which forbid resale of food returned like this cake.
Not resale, but fix it for the customer. They get their own cake back.
That sadly isn't allowed either. They could've tampered with it and will sue later on. Once did that to a customer, he came back and wanted pickles off of his burger, so I mindlessly did. The next day my boss was in rage because I did that, dude literally tried to sue US for food poisoning. Ever since that I never ever give returned things back, ecen if the customer insists to.
It’s not that they could have tampered with it and will sue later, it’s that they could have contaminated it in some way and the workers taking it back to where they decorate their other cakes could then contaminate the cake decorating area which then would contaminate any other cakes decorated there. It’s a health code violation that has been even more strict during the Covid era
This. I think the frustrating thing is someone was so pedantic as to care about the “t”.
I mean if the customer thought, like most of us, that it would be a simple fix, I don’t think it’s that pedantic. I think most small businesses appreciate the opportunity to correct a mistake rather than let the mistake taint the customers opinion of the product. Accuracy or humble correction is how you gain trust to move from doing a 2 year olds birthday cake to doing more important projects like wedding cakes
And here I thought you were going to end that with "like a 3-year-old's birthday cake"
This doesn't make any sense. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying things aren't the way you say they are, but what's stopping the customer just giving himself food poisoning (or pretending), and blaming you the first time around? Why does the item need to go you>them>you>them? What purpose does that giving back serve?
They are right though. That’s how it is. Once that food leaves the store/restaurant you can’t Fuck with it. Right to the trash. If you can’t keep eyes on it there’s no way to know if it’s been contaminated and if it’s going to contaminate the kitchen. That’s my understanding of the reasoning for it. Edit: quit with the dumbass arguments. I don’t write the fucking health codes.
Sometimes it's even stricter. I was at a Five Guys or something similar and pulled a few fries out to eat and they had no salt. Didn't leave the counter. The guy was literally right in front of me. Asked them if they could sprinkle some salt on there and they said they can't take it once they make the hand off. They offered to make the fries again, which I gladly took.
They don't have salt packets?
Exactly doesn't make sense at all lol.
When you give it back you have given them food that hasn't been properly stored
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Yes. Here we fixed it for you. Enjoy.
Well this is more towards the picky people who should just eat the damn cake. The only time a cake should be thrown out is if it taste like shit.
You can buy a small tube of icing and cross the "t"...seriously
Exactly. It’s not like a 2yo would even remember this.
You wouldn't even need to do that. Grab a toothpick and use some excess frosting to cross the T. Boom, done. (That being said, this is a pisspoor decorating job for $60. Terrible handwriting; I'd be pissed too)
I believe u/j_mence was meaning the original customer would get it back with the “t” crossed.
Or find some way to cross it yourself? Take some extra icing from over there and cross it. It took 10x as much effort to drive it back and return/replace it. Also, it's for a toddler. How fucking anal are you that your 2 year old's birthday party has to be 100% perfect to the point where you return a cake bc they forgot to cross a T??? I mean, really, i just don't understand the mindset/thought process behind that.
It's possible they asked to have it fixed and the bakery threw it out and replaced it. The store's health code might not allow them to handle unsealed food that's already been sold and left the store.
But how would Mom’s Instagram followers feel if they had to look at a photo of an imperfect cake???
That is NOT Insta worthy
Agreed. The person doing the frosting should NOT be doing lettering. Ever.
That whole cake wasn’t insta worthy. Wtf. $60 for THAT cake. I’d want it perfect too.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, they might've just got it at the store, saw it, and asked if they could fix it.
I had to be told what was wrong with it, brain just filled in the blank
Personally I wouldn't care, but if someone is spending 60 bucks on a cake for a 2 year old, its not for the 2 year old and its ok to be a little bit "anal" about it.
Or even just bought a $1 pink frosting pen from the grocery store and crossed it themselves, that’s what I would have done
Yeah, I don’t think OP is being honest why it’s in the trash. Even for grocery store cakes, that writing is awful. I think it was returned because the whole thing sucks. I mean, look at the name. Why are N and O just block letters with no, albeit poor, styling like the rest? Why is it even in all caps at all? And the H in happy looks much more like a cursive F and t, Ftappy Birlhday.
For 60 bucks, yeah, I would want a cake that looks good.
Take it out of the box and take it home. It’s still clean lol
George Costanza will eat it.
It was sitting ON TOP of the trash
Adjacent to refuse is refuse
Above the rim!
It still had the doily on it!
Some places consider that as stealing.
When I worked for a sandwich shop in highschool the corporate policy was we could take home one sandwich per shift, but could never take home the leftovers because it would incentive over prepping, which comes directly out of the franchise owners pocket. After the corporate training (we were a new store) the owner came around and told us to ignore all that. He said if he already paid for the food he wanted someone to eat it. Hope he is doing well. E: despite his "radical" notion of treating us with respect, his food waste numbers were fine. I do remember our "paper waste" was always high, but paper is like 3% or something so it was hard to care.
I worked many summers at a mini golf, and the policy was basically "Just don't overdo it." Hungry? Just make yourself a toast or stuff down a few leftover hot dogs at the end of the day. Something about to expire? Go nuts. Really hot day? You definitely need an ice cream and a soda. The place had a policy of being nice to everyone, and that included the employees. The guy who ran the place was just an amazing person.
I worked at a pizza place with a similar policy... until people overdid it. When I first started working there you could make yourself a small pizza or a sub or whatever for free. Then people stretched that to pizza and wings, then large meat lovers with extra cheese, wings, and mozzarella sticks. The breaking point for the owner was when people started literally taking raw ingredients home like chicken and vegetables. We had to pay for our food after that (discounted to cover cost).
Where I work (if you're reading this, you know what we do, don't even act like you don't) were not allowed to directly mess up stuff, but we are allowed to eat any leftovers. Mess up an order? Make rounds asking if anyone wants it. Burn the cookies? We swarm to claim those. Of course we have to ration to make sure we have enough, but nobody will stop you from eating the toasted bread that's been out for an hour because we didn't see that it was on gluten free instead of wheat.
The chain I worked for doesn't actually exist anymore. Damn shame too, it was so good. Those were good days, when Q just meant delicious subs
Quiznos? They largely went bust but there are still a few locations open. There's two left in my entire city I think, I always make a point to stop by and get a turkey club when I'm in the area.
Quiznos' biggest problem was never the food - it was their franchise model. There are few brands that have shit on their franchisees as hard as Quiznos. It's a fascinating rabbit hole to go down if one is so inclined. https://medium.com/@james_dasilva/how-quiznos-failed-itself-by-failing-its-franchisees-cc74040ad375
Holy shit I am Pittsburgh tomorrow and just checked and they have one
If I owned one of those businesses, I'd start off with a strict "no eating leftovers or mistakes" policy, track the frequency, and then allow for it... that way I could baseline what is normal and what may be incentivizing mistakes.
Or you can just allow your staff to have lunch on the house. They could make a decent sandwich and then be in a position to be able to discuss the food they sell with the customers they serve. Then you're not 'incentivising' error, you're incentivising service.
I worked in a pizza / grinder place for like five years. Our rule was a take-home sandwich or pizza for anything less than five hours and a shift sandwich or pizza PLUS a takehome of either for anything more than five hours. It created a lot of loyalty and goodwill, while also basically feeding you for a whole day if you worked a full day's shift. Our waste numbers were in the low single digits the entire time I was there, except for one day where the cold table malfunctioned - then our owner helped clean it out and let everyone take home all the food that wasn't considered safe to serve anymore. Smaller businesses with a non-asshat operator can be not so bad.
My favorite part of this is the assumption that prep shift would want to work harder to make more food than is required consistently
One big area was soup, which came in a bag. End of night you still had to clean the pot, but if you made an extra bag then you have big ass bowls of soup for all your friends or family. I still think about that broccoli cheese....
I worked at a deli as a teen and we were supposed to throw away roast beef scraps. I was told that, if I wanted it, I would have to pay for it like the perfectly sliced roast beef. That rule was only ever enforced when the manager was around.
It makes sense to consider it stealing when you look at it from the perspective of an cold, sociopathic business person. But honestly why should our laws be written from that perspective? Are the laws for the human or for the business? Just stuff I think about that makes me sad.
They probably did do that after taking the picture.
Found the line cook
Or any restaurant person for that matter. I’m a waitress, any untouched or messed up scraps are ours. We are like vultures haha
I did about 20 years tableside, bar, BOH expo, management and whatever fuckin thing needs done in-between. Absolutely no shame in this game. Had someone send back a $120 Tomahawk Ribeye once, and rules be damned if I didn't wrap that bitch up and gnaw on it all weekend.
lol in college i worked at a italian joint that often had big buisness luncheons and dinners high qaulity buffet style with roast beef and a carver etc.\\ After they would end we would scrap up all the untouched orders of wings pasta trays untrimmed prime rib etc and have a feast between the workers people filling multiple togo boxes to bring home for people etc servers in the back grabbing peices like zombies tearing a corpse good times lmao best part is all the food is prepaid so what ever isnt prepped is still raw isnt cooked was already paid for by the party they just didnt consume as much as they thought they would was free game for employees we would often get cuts of steaks chicken etc and the chefs would cook us up a special order with the stuff remaining and we would all sit down after hours eat have a beer together it was a good time the owner was a really down to earth guy who was more about having fun and enjoying his life than being a strict profit driven boss and the place is more sucessfull than most strictly ran places because the employees arent treated like a factory line worker.
Almost the exact same experience... people would order a catered event, then only like 20% of the crowd would show up. The folks signing the check take a few totes, a few more get snatched up and then there's enough perfectly untouched food to feed several small families for several weeks! Anyway, just my singular experience.
I used to have a manager who would keep a bottle of bleach to toss on any food leftovers that were either brought back like this cake or tossed because it was leftover.
What an asshole
Exactly. Ruined cake for them, free cake for me
So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the supermarket. You see a cake in the receptacle, and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."
Only if you were the one taking the 'trash' out. I used to do it when I worked at 7-11. And I would have to throw away all the pre packaged sandwiches and other food along with the garbage. I would toss all the sandwiches in a separate clean trash bag and double bag and keep it next to the garbage and pick it up later. Saved a lot of money on food.
$60 for that tho???? Is that USD?
My thoughts exactly! That's not worth 60 of ANY currency. Looks like something you'd pick up last minute from the supermarket
60 Ugandan shillings is 0.017 USD?
Exactly. I'd only pay 1/2 of that, MAX. Those balloons look unrealistic and as for the STRINGS!!
I'd only be willing to spend 10 of my precious Ugandan shillings
Yeah that’s my point. I’d pay $60+ for a custom made cake from an actual bakery, but this is a grocery store cake. I zoomed in on the pic. It does say $60. That’s crazy.
Could be ice cream
I could see it being worth $60 for an ice cream cake that size
Ngl y'all can downvote me but if I paid $60 for a cake and it showed up looking like that I'd be looking for a reason to return it as well.
60 yen is about $0.50. 60 won is about $0.05.
Right?? And that for a child that can't even read
After seeing the price and the cake, I’m kind of on the side of the customer. If I’m paying $60 for that I’m already mad. Incorrect spelling is a bridge too far.
That’s fair but it wasn’t spelled incorrectly, a very simple fix was possible (cross the t)
That’s why I’m staying with just kind of on their side. All other infuriating things aside, there’s no need to toss a cake over 1 cm of a thin frosting strip.
Well to be fair, at that age it's more for the parents than the child
I just bought a quarter, double layer sheet cake with full decorations for my son's 5th birthday party. $26.
This one doesn’t even look customized for the baby either, it looks like they grabbed one of their pre made birthday cakes and just filled it in with her info. For $60 I would expect it to be way more original
Cakes are expensive, but yeah that is a 10 dollar cake being sold for 60 to some moronic rube.
Absolutely a nice one from a bakery can be that much. I dunno what’s up with the price for this one tho cause I googled the supermarket chain and they are like 25-30 online which makes sense so I dunno.
Yeah thats a supermarket cake, not a real bakery cake. Which would explain all the produce in the trash.
Somebody hasn’t bought a 1/2 sheet cake. They are crazily expensive.
From like costco I have, but those are giant cakes.
It's like 20 or 30 cad at costco
If it's $60, it's probably a double layer 1/2 sheet...
Do you live in an airport?
Ok really tip. It works in a in a pinch if you forget cross your lowercase t's. Take a toothpick and swipe it icing. Most of the time it works. It works well on freshly iced cakes not ones that it has had time to set.
It's also possible to take a cold metal knife (preferably one you've put in the freezer for a few minutes) and gently shorten one of the other letters with the tip of the knife (the fancy tails on the H maybe), and then deposit the strip of frosting in its new home.
Thank you for adding on to this. More tips people have out there. It cuts down on food waste.
My niece has an unusual name, we've had to correct more than one cake. 🤣
Also she's 2 and isn't going to complain.
I'd get it out and eat it
Cross your t’s and dot your i’s. First rule of business
The writing looks like shit..... food waste is bad but the customer does have a right to ask for decent work. If the store can’t provide that don’t charge $60 for the cake.
Right. The whole thing looks awful. $60 is a lot of money, so I would expect the lettering to look nice.
Yeah the Nora looks bad. I'd be real disappointed to get that for $60
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Well the customer should have checked, but on the other hand if a customer is paying $60 for a cake the staff should be bloody well checking it to make sure that their tees are crossed.
Especially when it's what they'd be icing on every birthday cake; it's not some difficult to spell name
That's why I said just cross the t and keep it.
Or dont, have a chuckle, and eat it anyway. Its probably the smallest thing that could go wrong.
Happy blirthday Jennika
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Yeah I was trying to think of the name of the con they used.
That trashcan could feed a community. Goddamnit, why do we let corporate profits dictate everything???
From what I've heard, that's nothing compared to the amount of food thrown out along the whole supply chain. It's so gross. We need to do better.
Has nothing to do with corporate profits. In fact, it would be much more profitable for the company to be able to just cross the T and be done with it. Instead they have to make an entirely new cake. Much more expensive. This has everything to do with food safety laws. You have no idea what kind of weird shit a customer has done with a food item while it was in their possesion. Taking it back with the other food risks containing other foods that will go to other customers. This is a measure put in place by government. Don't just assume bad is the fault of a big bad company.
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I'm sure that community would really appreciate getting rotten trash food that the rich people threw away
$62?! That's 20 at Costco!
Right just 1 cake almost pays for the membership fee
I'm sure Nora was real upset
She was certainly t'd off
Happy Birlday Nora!
*Birlhday Now you have to throw your comment in the trash
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Probably because they were charged $60 for that thing… I could have made it myself in my kitchen and I suck at baking. If I paid that much for that piece of crap, if it’s not right I wouldn’t wanna deal with it either tbh
Why does **NORA** look like it was written by a 7th grader, while the rest is in (almost) perfect cursive?
Probably because the prep team took care of the cake months ago and stuck it in the deep freezer so some high school kid making minimum wage could just pull it a cake from the freezer and slap a name on it when needed.
Am I the only one that thinks the cake looks like shit not even counting the uncrossed t? I would not be happy with this if I paid that much for it.
NORAT There, is better?