I would say it is good to donate but know what why a business has to throw away things like that away and its not out of them but the many cross contamination that has happen and what the company to get sick from the packaging that chemicals are leaking to the food
If you open a food business you’ll throw away too, because people can’t have nice things and they will sue you if they get sick eating your free food. It’s not like they want to throw it away.
In Europe if they were caught like that they probably would have been fined the f. up. All groceries are required to donate their waste ... unless restaurants are not part of that.
@@Iwant-truthcould you actually sue someone for donating food that is perfectly sealed and has shelf life still? Don’t think you could get sick from it. They probably chose to put it in rubbish bags out front for dumpster
food corporations used to do that, donate their excess food to charity but there were cases that they got sued for false claims of food poisoning. so they just stopped doing it.
@@Ashengraychild1I worked at starbucks for 2 years never saw one delivery truck. But my coworkers and I would try to take home as much as possible. They just want you to think they donate lol.
@@Search4Bandzthats against their boss rules. If they give them in the middle of the day. No one gonna buy their coffe and just wait for the free stuff
@@toxicflicks1928 I dunno if that other person was talking specifically about New York or not, but i’ve worked at several Starbucks Locations in Ohio that all had multiple dumpsters. It was kind of a necessity with how much trash we had to throw out. however maybe the sizes of Starbucks locations and trash collection schedules make a difference in NY. i wouldn’t know🤷🏻 the way the bags were placed in the video was definitely intentional though. none of that was the actual trash we usually throw out (half empty drinks, coffee beans from the ground, old syrup bottles, etc.). trust me, those bags look very different💀
@@jayded_squidd7846 yes I was talking about NYC espesifically because our city was designed in a way where there isn't any back alleys per say and even if the business could get a dumpster to put in front of the business they city would not allow it for long periods of time since the dumpster would have to be placed on the curve/sidewalk and those dumpsters are usually for businesses and building owners who are doing major construction or getting rid of property. As to the was the food was placed in the bags that wasn't intentional. That's how most restaurants and supermarkets get rid of goods/foods. That's why there is a big group called "freenegans" that go around NYC looking in these trash for good still unexpired foods. I tried to join one of those groups but I was too lazy to stay up as long as they do 😆 🤣 but yeah in NYC if you know where to look you'll find great food and even furniture.
As a former Starbucks worker I can 100% confirm that this happened at all the locations I worked at. They are supposed to be donating these, but nobody actually does 😢
you have to give credit to the store worker though. the dude could’ve wrapped it up tightly and thrown it around back into a dumpster but decided to leave the bags open and on the sidewalk for anyone to take.
I would have called the local food shelf and local domestic shelters. They would know if this was legal to give to charity. Of course, I would have taken what I could use, too 😉
Yeah in the US that’s the only way to donate stuff, just leave it outside for someone to take because then you have no legal obligation if someone gets sick from it
I was just at a Walmart store in TN last week to buy some deli meat. The clerk sliced more than I wanted. I asked what she was going to do with it and was told it will be donated. I have personally distributed day old bread and pastries donated by Panera to homeless people in Detroit, MI. As the commenter stated, some is thrown out for liability issues. Often it's food that has a sell by date that has past. Even the shelters won't accept food that has an expired date. I'll eat it. I grew up where you used your nose and eyes to determine if something was bad. I'm nearing 70, cook most of my meals and have never had food poisoning.
I used to work at Starbucks and would take so much food home on a regular that they were just going to throw out! Being a poor college kid it definitely helped me out
Back in college I worked at Starbucks and was sick by the amount of food they threw away at the end of every shift. I bagged everything and brought it to a local food bank. I’m glad to say it continued to live on after I left. I wish every restaurant will do this. There’s honestly no reason anyone should go hungry in a country as prosperous as the U.S.
As a non-American I constantly hear how prosperous and broken USA is at the same time, just wanted to comment that individual efforts like yours truly matters - Not just to the American society, but to someone like me coming from a part of the world where food crisis is a normalised reality 🙏
at the starbucks near me, every day before all the food expires they put it on the counter and people can just take whatever they want. best way for stuff to not go to waste.
@@haeng6666 like before they throw it out just call them up and say you have extra stuff . I’m sure any manger would appreciate that. if it’s in good condition.
My guess is the other Starbucks store won't accept the donation. They only accept food directly from distributors. Imagine if someone from the closing store is angry enough or sick enough to inject poison into those packages. If someone dies, it would be difficult to trace and the food distributors won't have any of that.
@@kathw-fg1srnot true, I’ve worked in many restaurants and cafes. Ive noticed many of them tend to call sister stores for trades when they run out of things.
It’s pretty crazy, when I use to work at a grocery store I remember when we received palates of food…if one thing broke on that pallet we were told to throw the whole pallet away. I would hit up my friends whenever it happened to come and pick it up. Cause if I took anything it would be considered stealing even tho we threw it away. Yeah we were young and broke. Definitely fed us in the hard times
thats a poorly managed store....luckily for you I suppose....because whats supposed to happen is if anything on the skid breaks you remove that item and put it in damages so the store can return them to the factories in order to get refunded.....theres absolutely no reason to toss an entire skid because 1 or 2 items were damaged...I currently work at a grocery store and if we did that we'd likely be fired
I was homeless in NYC and I used to dumpster dive at Starbucks all the time, especially the one 110th & Morningside (now closed) and 100th & Columbus (don't know if its open or not). The bright lighting in front of the stores kept the rats away and they had all kinds of cakes, pastries, cookies, protein packs, sandwiches, cake pops etc. Not every trip had goodies though, and sometimes they threw old coffee grinds on top of the food to prevent people from ripping the bags open and leaving a mess on the sidewalk.
My friend and I use to work at Starbucks and after every shift, we would go to the homeless shelter nearby and donate all the food that was suppose to be thrown out. Shame that other places don’t do this.
@@Dice-Zyup- about 20 years ago I worked for a place calle The Pharm- its was like a Walgreens. One night a homeless man drank milk from the dumpster and got sick, he sued the company and we had to start dumping EVERYTHING
A co-worker of mine got fired for doing that. She worked in the Bakery of a grocery store. It’s sad since I and many others think it should be donated.
Stores can't donate food. If anyone gets sick from it, they can sue the store. Shitty people used to target charitable businesses specifically for this reason.
It's not only about Starbucks. Companies *cannot* donate food for legal reasons + they have to pay sell taxes for something that they gave away for free.
They do actually...this was 1 that was shutting down. There's 1 that donates boxes of those coffee beans on a regular basis to a church I volunteer at.. As in Full boxes of 10 lb bags with 4 bags in each box...& they get multiple boxes at a time (usually 3 or 4...sometimes 10-15 [boxes] at a time).
@@donotSTrAYfromyourdesTINY Thank you. I didn't read, my bad... But it says: _"Their recent June 2023 fact sheet affirms this act still provides tons of protection from liability."_ It means that even if in some cases the company might be protected but NOT in ALL cases. Companies taking in to account poor track record prefer to play safe. And as far as I know, the still have to pay taxes for donated goods.
Yea facts as a past waiter i always had to throw away allot of food, the portions from the menus where definitely to big but they had the chance to take away in doggy bags. And so many didnt do that i still dont get whyyy, it hurted me throwing away all that food.
I’ve had to throw away huge garbage BAGS full of freshly baked bread at my job. Our boss would let us take some bags home but for the most part they were trashed. Then a church took them to donate to homeless, supposedly… until we found out they weren’t. The second owner was smarter and discounted the bread at the end of day, but that meant we couldn’t take bread home anymore. 🥲
My job is to go to peoples homes and cleanup after sewage backups and biohazard jobs. Some of the stuff we haul away and throw in our dumpsters look like they might be fine but whenever I catch a dumpster diver I point out to them where it came from and it might not be such a good idea climbing into there and taking stuff. You never know what you’re picking up.
Its difficult to do this kind of things for big brands since the time a homeless person had problems with donated food ( I think allergic?) ,since then they just waste the things rather than taking the risk of losing integrity and money :l
@@jellopuffy2974It has absolutely nothing to do with that. It’s all taxes. The money they get on the write off losses for tossing it is too good for them to pass up. Don’t hate the player, hate the game
@@Tenchi707 woman also donated it just because one girl didn't donated you are thinking all are same do you know asian dads they would rather bring them home instead of donating same with asian moms you clearly don't know about asian parents or cheap peoples that don't wanna waste money💀 mam man man it's like all men are great. both men and women are abusive (some) stop acting like man are the whole world and all men are great #stop_with_these_men_things
And the expiration dates are for if they’re still frozen. It’s supposed to be a few days in the fridge. Source: I was a shift manager at Starbucks for 5+ years.
I think it varies place to place. My store donated the food but I had heard from others that transferred there that their old store didn’t and that someone even got fired for taking the food they were gonna throw aaay.
I’m a Starbucks employee too but mine is different. I took a few pastries home a few times instead of throwing them away. Or I’d just take a small bite before throwing the rest away. My coworkers do the same thing.
Thats the dumbest excuse ive heard for not donating food in perfect conditions wrapped in platic bags preventing contamination just clean the outside of the bag or dont touch the outside with your hands and the food is safe to eat
My mom had gave away some free food to beggars. Some said to just give money and didnt take food and some after 2 or 3 days said they got sick and tried to take money for us. Smart people know what they do.
@ElCid48 Agreed. It does not hurt to ask around. One man's junk can be another man's treasure. Ergo, when someone has things they dont need, and it may be of use to someone else. Why not find out if someone else might like to have it?
@@RUTHLESSambition5those bags weren't in the trash bin and everything seems separated. Cups in one bag, food in the other and a bag full of coffee beans. Nothing was mixed so honestly I would've taken it and shared it. There's no way I could eat that much food before some of it went bad.
@@RUTHLESSambition5evrything was in perfect condition and nothing in the trash can, even the bags were clean, a rate sight. I would've taken it all and donated the cutlery and food. Coffee beans all mine
I see perfectly go stuff put to the curb all the time. Back in the day when we had a pickup truck, my husband and I would go around neighborhoods during the spring when people would move. We’d get clothes, furniture, dishes, electronics…. Basically anything that people buy was right there on the curb waiting to be put in a landfill. We’d clean the stuff up an give it to charity. It was fun, like a treasure hunt and it felt good to give to those less fortunate… especially since we were so poor 😂
Decades ago,during tough times,a housemate got parttime work at the airport and would bring back bags of unopened,unused airline food.A blessing at the time.
Free food is a blessing Those who’ve never been hungry can’t understand how a meal can change everything. What’s the point of getting out of bed if you can’t eat?
The puppets in government could easily provide a free service that incentives the public to donate their food waste, they could use tax payers money to fund a workforce in every city and end global hunger overnight - but unfortunately this is all by design, solutions are simple but our best interests are not at heart.
Yeah but if we give people food and not waste it you realize the cost of food would go down and the greedy capitalist overlords can’t control us as easily, and we can’t have that oh no
They cant donate the food, unfortunately it opens them up to potential lawsuits. It literally takes one person and a scummy lawyer to claim injury from food poisoning to force a giant settlement. That happened to my dad's company. They donated tons of food to homeless shelters every year, but it took one lady and her lawyer to claim she got food poisoning from a sealed carton of orange juice. The company lost an undisclosed amount of cash, but they had to stop donating food and toss it all in the trash because they didn't want to risk more lawsuits
I was homeless in New York City for a couple years and this was honestly how I managed to eat most nights😂 They pre-package all their little individual sandwiches so you can still eat it from the trash
I work at Starbucks and I want to clarify those dates are frozen dates. That croissant she was holding contains ham and the rest are egg bites. As soon as those reach fridge temperature the egg bites last a week and the croissants last 48 hours before we no longer sell them (but will donate them asap). Once they are warmed beyond fridge temp they're no longer deemed to be safe. You might not get sick eating them but we definitely can't guarantee that especially since none of that food is meant to be eaten without being reheated in our 500+ Farenheit convection ovens. It's like stumbling across gallons of milk on the side of the road and claiming they're safe because the dates aren't expired yet
@@chisathot750 eh, they'll get stale after a week with that exposure and not stored vacuum sealed but that's absolutely a matter of taste over, like, genuine food poisoning. starbucks is 1000% banking on their ovens to cover their asses i wouldn't trust any of that out of temp frankly. look up the chicken maple sandwich we served that exactly the way we're instructed to and people were hospitalized. i was way more worried about her taking a fat bite out of that egg bite at the end than the beans. i use stale beans all the time because i don't have a fine palate and frankly don't make enough coffee outside of work to go through it fast enough. although if she's storing them un-vacummed the next best thing is to chuck them in the freezer. not nearly as aesthetic but if she wants them to taste better, longer, that's the way to go
@@ultimateboss2079 Absolutely, although some things expirations do change if they've been opened or change temperature. Like if those egg bites stayed in that freezer they genuinely would likely be good until the date printed on them. Honestly though it's always better to be safe than sorry when it comes to messing with stuff like that, especially if you have little to no health care insurance for the consequences. Even if every expiration date was just an average of how long things last that means there's a spectrum of almost half of those items never making it to that date
Used to work at a Starbucks, can confirm they throw so much stuff out. I felt so awful throwing so much stuff out, but I had to do what the manager told me to do. We weren't allowed to take any home ourselves either, I did ask. Like I'm getting paid Starbucks salary and I can't even take home a croissant?
Well, the salad was past its expiration date, therefore the company cannot be held accountable for it unless they gave it away while it is expired. Other than that, no.
I used to work at a Starbucks in a Kroger, and it killed me seeing all the food we threw away. Most of the food we were only supposed to keep for 1-2 days, but they were still perfectly fine! I decided to speak to my boss about donating wat we don't use, and we ended up having someone come in every couple days to take all the food we didn't sell!
@alexmendez713 Well this was over like 10 yrs ago lol but we also worked for the Kroger technically, so we had different rules. Thankfully the DM of our Kroger was super nice, and totally fine with me donating the food. It just makes no sense to me to throw away good food, rather than giving it to ppl who are hungry!
Okay let me get something straight with you and those who don't know. This is New York. Known for their shelters. I was in a homeless shelter. Women who are homeless have no reason to be homeless. When they can go to Franklin's woman shelter. Then if they have mental illnesses can go to Susan's place. They have programs there that will help people get their apartments. And put on programs that will help them. I have tried to help 2 different females and told them. They didn't want to listen and instead wanted to beg for money. These shelters provide 3 meals. And everything you need. People choose to be homeless.
well hey maybe if regards didnt try and sue every company, because they totally got "sick" from eating that we wouldnt have this problem. but sadly theres some people want to make a quick buck. and companies dont want to have to shill out a few 10's of thousands or sometimes even millions just because someone got a cold during flue season
I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but donating to charity is actually very expensive in many places. I'm from Croatia and we have a stupid law where you have to pay full VAT tax if you donate to charity. That tax is 20-25% here... There was a tradition where almost all bread bakeries would secretly give leftover bread when the day is over, to poor and homeless (we don't really have many homeless, but we do have poor) people, but they were getting fined. Unfortunately, most likely there are laws that make this kind of charity. Don't blame the business unless you are 100% sure they had other options.
I used to manage a waste contract. This involves taking waste to a depot that includes a big incinerator. Whilst waiting, my contractor noticed boxes and boxes of winter track suits - matching tops and pants etc - all with the iconic, high end brands logo. It was getting close to winter and he wondered why this high end athletic brand was incinerating their products instead of doing something good and donating the warm clothes to charity or something. The reasons included - The items were “last season’s” range. As they had hundreds of boxes, it was easier to burn them than it was to slash each item (to make it unwearable) as they usually do for smaller amounts. And finally - this company didn’t want the “type” of people that shop in charity stores to be seen wearing “their” high end products. It’s that last one that really grinds my gears. Every day, tons of perfectly good, brand new clothing and other products are destroyed and sent to landfill sites or to incinerators, rather than being donated or re sold in some way. It makes me sad and angry to be human. We need more transparency when it comes to situations like this. End of rant. P.s it was a BIG athletic company. But they didn’t want poor people walking around in their branded clothing. Grrrrrrrr. Ok, really end of rant 🙁
Coffee beans start looosing their taste by the day, if I go to Starbucks I should expect to pay for coffee made with fresh coffee beans, besides that food could go to a methead
In my made up country which I ain’t real any good food that is still good Hass to be donated to the homeless and stuff like it has to be donated in someway or another
There isn't for a reason. 1 it's on the side of the road which means anyone is actually allowed to take any of this, only catch is, if you decide to take any food that could make you sick that's on you 2 the thrown away food can make you sick. Either food was sitting in warm humid area that encourages fungus growth or simply staying in a warm area decreasing it's freshness faster can all contribute to someone getting sick and thus can get the company in serious trouble. Plus the food will make it back in the life cycle anyways. 3 this is cheap shit. Which means the stuff to make all this is probably toxic anyways and doesn't serve anyone's health in a good way 😂😂
I used to work at Starbucks and our manager use to encourage us to take stuff home, even after the District Manager found out. They just said "Hide the stuff you take from now on.:
You do understand that by taking such a stuff you avoided PAYING TAXES? Normally you'd have to buy food and there is a tax on that. Al Capone wasn't put in jail for just killing people, he was jailed for much more serious crime: tax evasion...
@@Dice-Z How much you wanna f-ing bet, 🤡 I’ve helped build and run businesses, including a family owned restaurant. We got to write off food waste. It’s part of the cost of doing business. “The internet can be used for almost anything. Shame most people use it to be stupid.”🫵🏼
I would definitely be happy to add that to my daily handing out boxes, I would cry if I find any food in my garbage can, my family knows the law, no food goes to the garbage, any leave over food, rice or anything, it goes to feed the animals, birds etc, it takes a lot of time to do things correct today but tomorrow there are no regrets,
I used to work at Starbucks. We did have to throw out food that was close to the best by date or the one day mark after we had pulled it from freezers. However the food was still good for days. We had a few homeless guys that stayed around the corner where our store was so I would just put it in a bag and take it to them when I got off. I would also take some for myself no lie. I loved the pumpkin bread. It was nice. Starbucks has always tossed out good food for their “legal purposes.”
If Starbucks didn’t, people would be upset that there was “bad” food on the shelves. Even if you gave it away someone could say to gave them bad food and sue. Don’t blame the companies with this practice, blame the people.
A company was sued by a guy after they gave away the remaining food one day after the shift. The company had to pay huge money so ever since all companies throw away rather than giving
In US, Throwing out food a day before expiry is ridiculous ! I had seen in UK they sell it at discounted price and on day of expiry it's at 90% to 95% discount and now a days it's given to people who can't afford to buy food be it low income earnings or homeless people ! Have seen my few friends who would buy these non veg foods and put in deep freezer and use it even after few days after expiry !
@@szeming143Bad people ruin the good things for the majority... While I understand it's frustrating to see it, companies have tried to give short expiry food for free but people have taken from those who need it, sued for illness, made messes of the stores and probably more. Who knows what this food has been through? Has it been part of a contaminated lot? Misprinted dates? Accidentally left under a hot lamp for hours? By no means am I defending a big company for food waste but why would they waste perfectly good product if it could be sold by a store transfer or done a large promotion at a huge discount in the last couple days.
I've never heard anyone say that, ever. There's the classic "one *man's* trash is another *man's* treasure", did you mean that? Is "people" the new inclusive term?
Well she cant, she could get sued for impersonating a company, if she wanna she has to have a contract with the hq Also i know this is a joke im just giving info :)
At Dunkins, all the doughnuts on the shelves either get sold or get thrown away. This is why when it's close to closing I'll offer free doughnuts to customers
I worked there for almost a year and omg doing that at close everyday hurt my soul. I’d give out doughnuts or bring a couple dozen home for family n friends. Also we weren’t aloud to take them fo the homeless shelter bc my location had run ins with the people staying at the shelter claiming that the doughnuts made them sick to get money and my gm didn’t want us to get sued 🤦🏻♀️
@@lpslover-mp2yyyeah often the needy are the cause of people not wanting to donate to the needy. When you’re that poor and likely an addict your mentality is so different that normal people have trouble understanding it.
i tried to as much as i could :p where i used to work at was near a lot of homeless shelters so a lot of ppl would come in and ask for hot water and the store managers would always get on my ass for not charging 27 cents for water like it even matters bruh. a multimillion company doesn’t care about losing 27 cents. i also gave away food that we were supposed to throw out (it was still good but it’s policy to throw food out after 3 days) and tbh i stole a lot of cups and shit from there. i didn’t really care because starbucks makes so much money but it always pissed me off how managers cared about the tiniest amount of money just so someone could have water
coming from a former starbs employee the sad truth is that so much is wasted instead of donated like it’s supposed to be. they wouldn’t let us take home food all the time unless it was marked out either
I've closed restaurants before. Trust me when I say this, this is 100% everything left after the staff looted everything they wanted. I've gotten so much free food from closing down restaurants it's ridiculous. The way they threw it out they did on purpose so people would find it and take it, ideally so homeless people can loot this shit.
If I remember correctly Dunkin Donuts used to donate their leftover donuts to homeless people in the area at the end of the business day. One of the homeless people got sick and they sued Dunkin Donuts for food poisoning. Since then Dunkin have been throwing out their Donuts every single day... that one homeless person ruined it for everyone.
Two reasons for not donating: 1. If by any chance if anything happens who consumes them( donated) then starbucks get sued for negligence which effects brand name. 2. Even if its done probably employees take stuff to their home and say they have donated, simply to stop stealing. 3. Starbucks products are fresh and hygiene so we can take them home. I worked there for sometime and I don't know for what reasons they throw lot of stuff even before expiry date. May be it has something to do with batch inspections, supply chain issues or if any outlet opens after a holiday then most of the stuff would be not good so then trash them.
A friend who worked in a Harlem Starbucks put a couple bags of food next to the bin, and i said "damn that's wasteful" and he looked at me and said "someone will eat them." I said "are you sure?", and he looked very serious and said "someone will eat them." And I understood.
Yes a person going thru trash bins for recycles will take bags of good wrapped food. Especially in the condition this video is showing. Its a gold mine in their eyes. Bless him for his acts of kindness. Best was the bakery near our house. They put stuff aside out back in a bin that wasn't used for for trash. Bless those that help...
As someone working in the culinary industry, we have extremely strict food safety rules. If someone were to get sick because we were giving away food, then it would cause a whole bunch of issues. If an item becomes unsanitary (cups, napkins, utensils), then we aren't allowed to keep it. We have to throw it away. Those egg bites are supposed to be frozen and refrigerated right before use, because if they are in the food tempature danger zone (41°F - 140°F) it causes dangerous bacteria to grow even more rapidly then it usually would. If you have any questions, I would be willing to answer them.
@jenniferromero571 I mean, I kind of understand. People who work in the food, medical, and cleaning industries know mostly because they learned it when they got their education/job in the subject. Before I started working professionally with food, I didn't know, so it's understandable.
Closed permanently. That's why. 😵💫 That's when she should of called her family to bring a truck, and load all that up. It was her Gold mine, and she didn't take advantage of it. The lunch truck's in the city would of bought everything. Cups, napkins. 💰💰💰 When they say don't count your blessings. Girl you were blessed. 👍
@@SasquatchPJsThat's what I it the point, the point is she wasted all that stuff too. She could have donated it herself, or told food trucks about it.
I worked in an industrial kitchen where they prepare microwaved food products and they closed down and they told me to just get rid of everything. Over a two week period I gave out hundreds of Pounds of food to neighbors, friends, family, homeless, other businesses. My back seat was completely full of random food 😂
the reason for that is the company might get sued typically if unsold produce was handed out as for example many companies are obligated to throw away food even If not expired ! for them the lawsuit would cost a ton more than the cost of the food and stuff
it's normal. If they gift this stuff away they have to pay more taxes (gift taxes) and a lot of fees to secure what they are giving complies with health standards. Also, usually it happens only with businesses that are shutting down completely. If one of the products they donate causes physical discomfort they can be sued or their image could be damaged.
🎥 thetrashwalker is trying to bring about change and end waste on TT and YT. She is also on Insta as well!
I would say it is good to donate but know what why a business has to throw away things like that away and its not out of them but the many cross contamination that has happen and what the company to get sick from the packaging that chemicals are leaking to the food
If you open a food business you’ll throw away too, because people can’t have nice things and they will sue you if they get sick eating your free food. It’s not like they want to throw it away.
In Europe if they were caught like that they probably would have been fined the f. up. All groceries are required to donate their waste ... unless restaurants are not part of that.
I'd have taken all I could carry!
Thats not a Starbucks thats a Dunkin. We have to throw the food out at the end of every day. Its company policy. :/ it kinda sucks though.
One person’s trash is definitely another person’s treasure.
Especially the gift cards.
But yeah I'm taking the cups
@@wtrisTthey have to be activated to work
The crazy thing is they probably found insects inside the bags
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”
That's America. They'd rather throw things away than put for super cheap or give for free.
it's called liability
and someone kept it arranged outside opened they were donating it in a legal way
We need to change that
They don’t want to get sued.
@@Iwant-truthcould you actually sue someone for donating food that is perfectly sealed and has shelf life still? Don’t think you could get sick from it. They probably chose to put it in rubbish bags out front for dumpster
As a former Starbucks worker I can confirm that’s exactly how much waste of product Starbucks goes through
As someone who knows lots about food places, I know many workers are fired for giving away dozens of food that’s been wasted.
thanks
Never had the urge to go dumpster diving at Starbucks until now😭🤣
@@Misshb also dumpster diving into a Dunkin’s donuts trash can could get you some donuts 🤠
wowwww
Love how they are like “help the people with no food” “save the environment” as they throw out an entire shop
food corporations used to do that, donate their excess food to charity but there were cases that they got sued for false claims of food poisoning. so they just stopped doing it.
@@agidnis1234not only that but im pretty sure its also illegal
@@Ashengraychild1 okay, thanks for the correction
Cause it’s all just virtue signalling
@@Ashengraychild1I worked at starbucks for 2 years never saw one delivery truck. But my coworkers and I would try to take home as much as possible. They just want you to think they donate lol.
I appreciate that they set it off to the side in separate, clean bags. Those workers knew people were going to snag it.
Why do’nt just give it for free with orders for example
@@Search4Bandzthats against their boss rules. If they give them in the middle of the day. No one gonna buy their coffe and just wait for the free stuff
@@mewmewYenfeed two cats today and you’ll have 4 cats waiting for food next week. They don’t want to be the soup kitchen line.
@@Search4BandzTo avoid any Lawsuits.
@@thepcal9654that's why you take the food to a shelter, that way the cats are safe and fed
Well, at least someone put it in front of the store and in separate bin bags. It's almost as if someone wanted this to be found...
I agree but Idk what it's like in New York but I'd assume there's a big dumpster out back where they normally put their garbage
@@toxicflicks1928nope we don't have big dumpster or back alleys thats why business put their garbage on the curve/sidewalk
@@toxicflicks1928 I dunno if that other person was talking specifically about New York or not, but i’ve worked at several Starbucks Locations in Ohio that all had multiple dumpsters. It was kind of a necessity with how much trash we had to throw out. however maybe the sizes of Starbucks locations and trash collection schedules make a difference in NY. i wouldn’t know🤷🏻
the way the bags were placed in the video was definitely intentional though. none of that was the actual trash we usually throw out (half empty drinks, coffee beans from the ground, old syrup bottles, etc.). trust me, those bags look very different💀
@@jayded_squidd7846 yes I was talking about NYC espesifically because our city was designed in a way where there isn't any back alleys per say and even if the business could get a dumpster to put in front of the business they city would not allow it for long periods of time since the dumpster would have to be placed on the curve/sidewalk and those dumpsters are usually for businesses and building owners who are doing major construction or getting rid of property.
As to the was the food was placed in the bags that wasn't intentional. That's how most restaurants and supermarkets get rid of goods/foods. That's why there is a big group called "freenegans" that go around NYC looking in these trash for good still unexpired foods. I tried to join one of those groups but I was too lazy to stay up as long as they do 😆 🤣 but yeah in NYC if you know where to look you'll find great food and even furniture.
Its new york ..this is every street .. they just put piles of trash bags on the side walk
As a former Starbucks worker I can 100% confirm that this happened at all the locations I worked at. They are supposed to be donating these, but nobody actually does 😢
Guess Starbucks wokeness is fake
@@JohnSmith-xu7evStarbucks only cares about rich white women
@@JohnSmith-xu7ev “Starbucks wokeness” ???
It takes time and money to donate, why would Starbucks do that if it doesn’t make them money
The one I worked at did. We always donated the food. People from the local church would come by and take the bins.
you have to give credit to the store worker though. the dude could’ve wrapped it up tightly and thrown it around back into a dumpster but decided to leave the bags open and on the sidewalk for anyone to take.
Since he isn't allowed to give it away directly
@@MonClaire-hl3nqwhy?
@@schoolsucks782because if someone gets sick they may sue them.
To be honest i would have take it all rather than donating🫢🫢😊
I would have called the local food shelf and local domestic shelters. They would know if this was legal to give to charity. Of course, I would have taken what I could use, too 😉
As a former homeless man, this would have been JACKPOT
same
😢
Would like to hear your story
In California the food banks give out Starbucks food. Egg sandwiches, bakery items, tons of food I am thankful to get. I think this video is deceptive
Take loan and buy house or somethung
If I were her I would've opened my own Starbuck shop 💀
Same
I would call Ming “Starbucks leftovers “😂😂
Do you have any idea how fast Starbucks would take her down??? I’m talking light speed 😭
@@cubanalien thats true tho 😢
Business man right there
I’m a former starbucks worker and our policy was to donate food/give it to our families/keep it to ourselves if nobody wanted the extras.
w bro that’s really good of your location
Explain this video then
@@Waarden_YTIt may have been for there location only
@@Waarden_YT bro thinks there's only one starbucks
@@Atsushi_Nakajima2 when did I say there was 1 Starbucks?
In Germany cafés give their leftovers of the day to an organization that feeds people in need. It's definitely better than throwing it away .
Same in uk
Yeah in the US that’s the only way to donate stuff, just leave it outside for someone to take because then you have no legal obligation if someone gets sick from it
I was just at a Walmart store in TN last week to buy some deli meat. The clerk sliced more than I wanted. I asked what she was going to do with it and was told it will be donated.
I have personally distributed day old bread and pastries donated by Panera to homeless people in Detroit, MI.
As the commenter stated, some is thrown out for liability issues. Often it's food that has a sell by date that has past. Even the shelters won't accept food that has an expired date. I'll eat it. I grew up where you used your nose and eyes to determine if something was bad. I'm nearing 70, cook most of my meals and have never had food poisoning.
Yea, american economy is fucked
I used to work at Starbucks and would take so much food home on a regular that they were just going to throw out! Being a poor college kid it definitely helped me out
Well now I know where to work if i ever move to america
@@SexyMan590u just wrote my mind
@@Frist8read*
@@SexyMan590don't move to America we are a plague type of country. Keep your innocents 😂
In germany we would get sued
Back in college I worked at Starbucks and was sick by the amount of food they threw away at the end of every shift. I bagged everything and brought it to a local food bank. I’m glad to say it continued to live on after I left. I wish every restaurant will do this. There’s honestly no reason anyone should go hungry in a country as prosperous as the U.S.
As a non-American I constantly hear how prosperous and broken USA is at the same time, just wanted to comment that individual efforts like yours truly matters - Not just to the American society, but to someone like me coming from a part of the world where food crisis is a normalised reality 🙏
And they don't care because they way over charge for everything at Starbucks. They simply don't care about throwing it all away daily
think you got some of your words mixed up! I’m glad to say it continued to live on after I left. I wish every restaurant will do this. ?
@@r.k.royc.2823the US is rich but it isn’t prosperous.
@@meatyboy8811I think they meant the workers there continued the donation tradition after they left
You have to have people who CARE!!
It’s not even about caring, it’s FREE Snacks!!!
She better of taken the gift cards
@@Boxel_Broganthey ain't activated
im your 1000th like
@@Boxel_Brogan they wouldn't be ACTIVATED!
at the starbucks near me, every day before all the food expires they put it on the counter and people can just take whatever they want. best way for stuff to not go to waste.
"Save the environment!"
*Throws out hundreds of fucking cups*
At least they offer those metal straws!🙄
?@@wombatnation1709
@@wombatnation1709you mean made out of card board
It's a liability.
@@MKA_Envy2 those are even worse, fill up a cup and 2 minutes later you have cardboard water
The most realistic donation they could have done was to send it to another Starbucks store near by.
Donation my ass, that shit will last me an entire year, you do not know her situation
u really think they will take things from a trash bag?
@@haeng6666 like before they throw it out just call them up and say you have extra stuff . I’m sure any manger would appreciate that.
if it’s in good condition.
My guess is the other Starbucks store won't accept the donation. They only accept food directly from distributors. Imagine if someone from the closing store is angry enough or sick enough to inject poison into those packages. If someone dies, it would be difficult to trace and the food distributors won't have any of that.
@@kathw-fg1srnot true, I’ve worked in many restaurants and cafes. Ive noticed many of them tend to call sister stores for trades when they run out of things.
As a caffeine addict, yes, yes I would. I'd take the whole bag.
Get help (jk)
@@classicminecraftambience747whats the point saying the joke when you already said it
😂😂😂
@@poison_fierce535 So nobody gets butthurt and offended like everyone does nowadays.
@@poison_fierce535give examples
It’s pretty crazy, when I use to work at a grocery store I remember when we received palates of food…if one thing broke on that pallet we were told to throw the whole pallet away. I would hit up my friends whenever it happened to come and pick it up. Cause if I took anything it would be considered stealing even tho we threw it away. Yeah we were young and broke. Definitely fed us in the hard times
thats a poorly managed store....luckily for you I suppose....because whats supposed to happen is if anything on the skid breaks you remove that item and put it in damages so the store can return them to the factories in order to get refunded.....theres absolutely no reason to toss an entire skid because 1 or 2 items were damaged...I currently work at a grocery store and if we did that we'd likely be fired
The homeless man;
“ Damm looks like I found the jackpot “ 💀💀💀
Damn ikr I woulda taken that straight
Im not homeless but i would take that shit
As a person who isn't homeless, I see this as a win
I was homeless in NYC and I used to dumpster dive at Starbucks all the time, especially the one 110th & Morningside (now closed) and 100th & Columbus (don't know if its open or not). The bright lighting in front of the stores kept the rats away and they had all kinds of cakes, pastries, cookies, protein packs, sandwiches, cake pops etc. Not every trip had goodies though, and sometimes they threw old coffee grinds on top of the food to prevent people from ripping the bags open and leaving a mess on the sidewalk.
They couldn’t send it to another Starbucks?? Im glad she made use of it 🙏
She made out Good 👍🏾 😊
health codes
nah she shouldve handed it out. donated it. give it to the poor?? she took it all for herslef
These people man they need to be giving to homeless and kids in Africa or other places in need
Trashing it was an IRS deduction.
Where she then went and opened her own successful coffee shop
Wtf take all the tradh bags
@@Sa.d.bo26 I would've taken it all
Yuss!
🤣🤣🤣
Lol
As a Cuban I’m taking everything and leaving nothing 😊
Same
What about others who might need it more or are Cubans just all for themselves?
*Moral of the story: "If you know a Starbucks is going to close permanently... write the date in your notebook and go to the adress!!!!* 🤣🤣🤣
And you got treasure chest in no time
Pirate's Booty! 🤣
@@stefanmarchione6757 Looking at SB prices... I consider I'm not the real pirate... 😄😉
@@J0HN_D03 So true...the amount of waste these establishments produce is sad. Keep foraging, Brother! ✌🗽
@@stefanmarchione6757 Lol I have what I need, don't worry. But I definitely don't blame people like this girl. 🖐🏻😇🗼
My friend and I use to work at Starbucks and after every shift, we would go to the homeless shelter nearby and donate all the food that was suppose to be thrown out. Shame that other places don’t do this.
Unfortunately it takes a single food poisoning lawsuit for business owners to start throwing everything.
@@Dice-Zyeah, I've seen TONS thrown away at retirement homes, and that's a policy set in stone.
@@Dice-Zyup- about 20 years ago I worked for a place calle The Pharm- its was like a Walgreens. One night a homeless man drank milk from the dumpster and got sick, he sued the company and we had to start dumping EVERYTHING
A co-worker of mine got fired for doing that. She worked in the Bakery of a grocery store. It’s sad since I and many others think it should be donated.
Si c'est vraie. Merci beaucoup !
“would you have taken any of these stuffs?” nah, I'm taking all of them 💀
Same thought man, I’d take it all and donate the stuff that I don’t want/need
SAME IM TAKING IT ALL
And starting a business In your neighbourhood
Same
Same here as well, I'd take all of it, such a waste to let them all rot
Stores can't donate food. If anyone gets sick from it, they can sue the store. Shitty people used to target charitable businesses specifically for this reason.
Hmm,m......
That's actually starting to change. I am retail grocery and we have recently started donating instead of tossing. Hopefully, it will continue.
Sam Club dose it
she opens her own starbucks the next day
and closes in under 3 weeks because she runs out of supplies and cant source anything
@@yeeyee52Yeah
More like a coffee outlet.
😂😂
😂😂😂
Starbucks definitely needs to start donating their stuff
It's not only about Starbucks. Companies *cannot* donate food for legal reasons + they have to pay sell taxes for something that they gave away for free.
@@tjblues01if you read the pinned comment, you’d see that’s not the case
@@donotSTrAYfromyourdesTINYbut they will be responsible if someone gets sick right then they get sued
They do actually...this was 1 that was shutting down.
There's 1 that donates boxes of those coffee beans on a regular basis to a church I volunteer at..
As in Full boxes of 10 lb bags with 4 bags in each box...& they get multiple boxes at a time (usually 3 or 4...sometimes 10-15 [boxes] at a time).
@@donotSTrAYfromyourdesTINY Thank you. I didn't read, my bad... But it says:
_"Their recent June 2023 fact sheet affirms this act still provides tons of protection from liability."_
It means that even if in some cases the company might be protected but NOT in ALL cases. Companies taking in to account poor track record prefer to play safe. And as far as I know, the still have to pay taxes for donated goods.
dont blame the employees. blame the higher ups. employees literally just do what they are told
Yea facts as a past waiter i always had to throw away allot of food, the portions from the menus where definitely to big but they had the chance to take away in doggy bags. And so many didnt do that i still dont get whyyy, it hurted me throwing away all that food.
The place just closed permanently lol, what would happen? They get fired?
@@annagrace2746 the employees most likely just move to a near by location thats still open so yeah they could get fired.
I’ve had to throw away huge garbage BAGS full of freshly baked bread at my job. Our boss would let us take some bags home but for the most part they were trashed. Then a church took them to donate to homeless, supposedly… until we found out they weren’t. The second owner was smarter and discounted the bread at the end of day, but that meant we couldn’t take bread home anymore. 🥲
@@MyHiddenWrldno. That's nor how that works. Lol
My job is to go to peoples homes and cleanup after sewage backups and biohazard jobs. Some of the stuff we haul away and throw in our dumpsters look like they might be fine but whenever I catch a dumpster diver I point out to them where it came from and it might not be such a good idea climbing into there and taking stuff. You never know what you’re picking up.
I would call someone to help set up a “feed the poor” type of thing
Its difficult to do this kind of things for big brands since the time a homeless person had problems with donated food ( I think allergic?) ,since then they just waste the things rather than taking the risk of losing integrity and money :l
that's the freezer date shits been defrosted and it's old
@@jellopuffy2974 think companies and individuals are protected by the good Samaritan act
@@jellopuffy2974It has absolutely nothing to do with that. It’s all taxes. The money they get on the write off losses for tossing it is too good for them to pass up. Don’t hate the player, hate the game
A lot of the food is food that should be refrigerated so by feeding people stuff like this you risk giving them food poisoning.
That woman just hit a jackpot 😂
A man would have donated it
@@Tenchi707 woman also donated it just because one girl didn't donated you are thinking all are same do you know asian dads they would rather bring them home instead of donating same with asian moms you clearly don't know about asian parents or cheap peoples that don't wanna waste money💀 mam man man it's like all men are great. both men and women are abusive (some) stop acting like man are the whole world and all men are great
#stop_with_these_men_things
@@Tenchi707nah
@@Tenchi707any sensible human being would
@@Tenchi707 hi, if you're wanting to troll, that was wayyyyyy too obvious.
that food might need refrigeration, but the coffee beans was a whole gold mine
And the cups too
And the expiration dates are for if they’re still frozen. It’s supposed to be a few days in the fridge.
Source: I was a shift manager at Starbucks for 5+ years.
She could’ve started her own starbucks
We'll talk donations later. I'm taking that shit 💀
I would take all of it and keep some for me!After that i would donate/give to homeless people the food that is left
@@carolinapapp-is9tx I would do the same, I was just kidding, haha. It's crazy how they can trow away so many stuff that could benefit others :///
FR SO TRUE😂
i am a starbucks worker. our policy is to donate unused food that we can’t sell.
I think it varies place to place. My store donated the food but I had heard from others that transferred there that their old store didn’t and that someone even got fired for taking the food they were gonna throw aaay.
The one I used to work for donated food, after the partners got at it. But I know some didn't. It's varies.
I’m a Starbucks employee too but mine is different. I took a few pastries home a few times instead of throwing them away. Or I’d just take a small bite before throwing the rest away. My coworkers do the same thing.
The reason they say they can't donate is that if anyone got sick they would say it was caused from the stuff they were given.
The law suit culture has destroyed donations.
People are scared to gift donate any thing.
They left it open so they were donating it legally.
The Bill Emerson Act says that they cant be held responsible.
why would anyone get sick?
Thats the dumbest excuse ive heard for not donating food in perfect conditions wrapped in platic bags preventing contamination just clean the outside of the bag or dont touch the outside with your hands and the food is safe to eat
@@Naima_2010
A person could claim being sick… hard to prove, but still they’d get paid.
Even if they lied.
What is the world coming to?
My mom had gave away some free food to beggars. Some said to just give money and didnt take food and some after 2 or 3 days said they got sick and tried to take money for us.
Smart people know what they do.
Perhaps call a local shelter for help and get the food to them.
Bonus points if they trust/know you.
Their loss if they dont fetch it.
Oh yea I would take it all
please donate your unwanted food and stuff to shelters and other organization. do not throw it in the trash.
@ElCid48 Agreed.
It does not hurt to ask around.
One man's junk can be another man's treasure.
Ergo, when someone has things they dont need, and it may be of use to someone else.
Why not find out if someone else might like to have it?
No shelter is gonna take food that was found on the street
555th like
This is why you at least need to know a friend with a truck.
Im not digging in the trash to get food😆😆😆 GROSS. Especially in NY. Im taking thw gift cards though but i doubt they were active
@@RUTHLESSambition5those bags weren't in the trash bin and everything seems separated. Cups in one bag, food in the other and a bag full of coffee beans. Nothing was mixed so honestly I would've taken it and shared it. There's no way I could eat that much food before some of it went bad.
@@RUTHLESSambition5evrything was in perfect condition and nothing in the trash can, even the bags were clean, a rate sight. I would've taken it all and donated the cutlery and food. Coffee beans all mine
I see perfectly go stuff put to the curb all the time. Back in the day when we had a pickup truck, my husband and I would go around neighborhoods during the spring when people would move. We’d get clothes, furniture, dishes, electronics…. Basically anything that people buy was right there on the curb waiting to be put in a landfill. We’d clean the stuff up an give it to charity. It was fun, like a treasure hunt and it felt good to give to those less fortunate… especially since we were so poor 😂
Decades ago,during tough times,a housemate got parttime work at the airport and would bring back bags of unopened,unused airline food.A blessing at the time.
Free food is a blessing
Those who’ve never been hungry can’t understand how a meal can change everything. What’s the point of getting out of bed if you can’t eat?
That stuff was stolen. 🙂
Bruh, airplane food is pretty nice lol
@@tydshiin5783 It's literally a frozen dinner. A really cheap one.
@@Christobanistanwho cares if it’s cheap food or not? I don’t believe it was stolen, hence thrown away.
The gift cards don’t work unless activated 💀💀
Food waste is unforgivable especially in these times.
The puppets in government could easily provide a free service that incentives the public to donate their food waste, they could use tax payers money to fund a workforce in every city and end global hunger overnight - but unfortunately this is all by design, solutions are simple but our best interests are not at heart.
Yeah but if we give people food and not waste it you realize the cost of food would go down and the greedy capitalist overlords can’t control us as easily, and we can’t have that oh no
Very forgiving if you're running a business. Not that an ignoramus who doesn't understand how surplus works would understand. No offense.
@@JsJdv no it's not.
They cant donate the food, unfortunately it opens them up to potential lawsuits.
It literally takes one person and a scummy lawyer to claim injury from food poisoning to force a giant settlement.
That happened to my dad's company. They donated tons of food to homeless shelters every year, but it took one lady and her lawyer to claim she got food poisoning from a sealed carton of orange juice. The company lost an undisclosed amount of cash, but they had to stop donating food and toss it all in the trash because they didn't want to risk more lawsuits
I would’ve taken that whole bag of coffee beans and whistled my way home
I would've brought my car and take them all.
I would take the gift cards😂
@@VitalEwe Gift cards are worthless without being activated
Say bye to the rat that was sleeping in them
@@VitalEweyou have to have to put money on them
“And even gift cards”
*free Starbucks for life*
As a Starbucks barista I assure you eating egg bites that were left out in the sun is a great way to put yourself in the bathroom for a day.
I see people saying America throws stuff away but like they literally cant give the stuff away they can get sued im not even from the us
@@unrealbuddy_if there is a will,there us a way.noone can stop u from taking those home and u can give it away from.there
@@gulalatas9163well no one can stop you but they definitely can fire you if you work there sadly
Yuck
Theyre vacuum sealed and she said they're still cold.
I was homeless in New York City for a couple years and this was honestly how I managed to eat most nights😂 They pre-package all their little individual sandwiches so you can still eat it from the trash
You don't seem like a homeless
@@rolex5134"i was homeless" can u read
@@rolex5134stop being ignorant
@@-FSY-😂😂😂
@@rii3053😂😂😂
Rumour is, she started up her own starbucks.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🙌🙌🙌🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣 she could tbh
Our hearts have become so cold!🥶
😂😂
Lesson of the video: Always check starbucks trash.
She now runs one of New York's newest micro boutique coffee shops.
I would 😅
lol
@@Skeeterrrrrr😅😅
I work at Starbucks and I want to clarify those dates are frozen dates. That croissant she was holding contains ham and the rest are egg bites. As soon as those reach fridge temperature the egg bites last a week and the croissants last 48 hours before we no longer sell them (but will donate them asap). Once they are warmed beyond fridge temp they're no longer deemed to be safe. You might not get sick eating them but we definitely can't guarantee that especially since none of that food is meant to be eaten without being reheated in our 500+ Farenheit convection ovens. It's like stumbling across gallons of milk on the side of the road and claiming they're safe because the dates aren't expired yet
the beans are still alright tho
@@chisathot750 eh, they'll get stale after a week with that exposure and not stored vacuum sealed but that's absolutely a matter of taste over, like, genuine food poisoning. starbucks is 1000% banking on their ovens to cover their asses i wouldn't trust any of that out of temp frankly. look up the chicken maple sandwich we served that exactly the way we're instructed to and people were hospitalized. i was way more worried about her taking a fat bite out of that egg bite at the end than the beans. i use stale beans all the time because i don't have a fine palate and frankly don't make enough coffee outside of work to go through it fast enough. although if she's storing them un-vacummed the next best thing is to chuck them in the freezer. not nearly as aesthetic but if she wants them to taste better, longer, that's the way to go
Expiration is bullshit I had something that said it was good for months. And it went bad way before..
@@ultimateboss2079 Absolutely, although some things expirations do change if they've been opened or change temperature. Like if those egg bites stayed in that freezer they genuinely would likely be good until the date printed on them. Honestly though it's always better to be safe than sorry when it comes to messing with stuff like that, especially if you have little to no health care insurance for the consequences. Even if every expiration date was just an average of how long things last that means there's a spectrum of almost half of those items never making it to that date
But those cups and napkins were fine?
Not me grabbing all of the bags💀
Can’t say I blame ya
What if it was a delivery 😂 💀
Used to work at a Starbucks, can confirm they throw so much stuff out. I felt so awful throwing so much stuff out, but I had to do what the manager told me to do. We weren't allowed to take any home ourselves either, I did ask. Like I'm getting paid Starbucks salary and I can't even take home a croissant?
That's horrible. He doesn't even get any negative impact if you take the leftover and he still don't allowed it?
And why could you not take it?
I'm boutta out that shit in Ziploc baggies inside a box and go dumpster diving after my shift💀
why would they throw it?
Should of called friends to come get it and then split it up later.
They stopped donating because one person got sick after holding onto and eating a salad way past its expiration date, then sued.
Lies.
@@yosquidd242its true
@@yosquidd242 it's true and sad because one irresponsible person ruined it for everyone else.
There's actually a law preventing this. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ210/pdf/PLAW-104publ210.pdf
Well, the salad was past its expiration date, therefore the company cannot be held accountable for it unless they gave it away while it is expired. Other than that, no.
I used to work at a Starbucks in a Kroger, and it killed me seeing all the food we threw away. Most of the food we were only supposed to keep for 1-2 days, but they were still perfectly fine! I decided to speak to my boss about donating wat we don't use, and we ended up having someone come in every couple days to take all the food we didn't sell!
Dang what a dope boss think it's illegal in some places and he's putting his job on the line for it
Yay, you!😄👏👏👏
@alexmendez713 Well this was over like 10 yrs ago lol but we also worked for the Kroger technically, so we had different rules. Thankfully the DM of our Kroger was super nice, and totally fine with me donating the food. It just makes no sense to me to throw away good food, rather than giving it to ppl who are hungry!
@karinberonius8799 It's crazy to me to throw away all that good food, and who wouldn't like a Starbucks treat?🙃
@lindseyjohanneson6950 I've never had one! In Sweden, most people make their own coffee. 😋
They could have & should have donated all of that! 😢
One man's trash is another man's treasure
That's called adoption. Dark humour. Dont judge me.
@@SenexLt that's called bad choices
Yes, I would also donate to shelters. We have too many people who live in the street.😊❤
You nearly made me write a bad joke about homeless ppl and this food and stuff already packaged in garbage bags...
Then donate!!
Yeah donate those gift cards they are absolutely useless
You have NO IDEA why they threw that stuff out. What if an employee pissed all over it?
Okay let me get something straight with you and those who don't know. This is New York. Known for their shelters. I was in a homeless shelter. Women who are homeless have no reason to be homeless. When they can go to Franklin's woman shelter. Then if they have mental illnesses can go to Susan's place. They have programs there that will help people get their apartments. And put on programs that will help them. I have tried to help 2 different females and told them. They didn't want to listen and instead wanted to beg for money. These shelters provide 3 meals. And everything you need. People choose to be homeless.
America: more worried about "liability" than charity.
well hey maybe if regards didnt try and sue every company, because they totally got "sick" from eating that
we wouldnt have this problem. but sadly theres some people want to make a quick buck. and companies dont want to have to shill out a few 10's of thousands or sometimes even millions just because someone got a cold during flue season
But also America: sues at any chance they get.
I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but donating to charity is actually very expensive in many places.
I'm from Croatia and we have a stupid law where you have to pay full VAT tax if you donate to charity.
That tax is 20-25% here...
There was a tradition where almost all bread bakeries would secretly give leftover bread when the day is over, to poor and homeless (we don't really have many homeless, but we do have poor) people, but they were getting fined.
Unfortunately, most likely there are laws that make this kind of charity. Don't blame the business unless you are 100% sure they had other options.
Do you know that there's a lot of free food bank in all 50 states.. look it up. Have you give anything to a needy person?
So?
I used to manage a waste contract.
This involves taking waste to a depot that includes a big incinerator.
Whilst waiting, my contractor noticed boxes and boxes of winter track suits - matching tops and pants etc - all with the iconic, high end brands logo.
It was getting close to winter and he wondered why this high end athletic brand was incinerating their products instead of doing something good and donating the warm clothes to charity or something.
The reasons included -
The items were “last season’s” range.
As they had hundreds of boxes, it was easier to burn them than it was to slash each item (to make it unwearable) as they usually do for smaller amounts.
And finally - this company didn’t want the “type” of people that shop in charity stores to be seen wearing “their” high end products.
It’s that last one that really grinds my gears.
Every day, tons of perfectly good, brand new clothing and other products are destroyed and sent to landfill sites or to incinerators, rather than being donated or re sold in some way.
It makes me sad and angry to be human.
We need more transparency when it comes to situations like this.
End of rant.
P.s it was a BIG athletic company.
But they didn’t want poor people walking around in their branded clothing. Grrrrrrrr.
Ok, really end of rant 🙁
She should have her own Starbucks 😂😂
At least for one month and then shut down suddenly.
Perfect for a little fundraising campaign at school
Lol
She made Starbucks at home 😂
😂😂😂
Waste is never good when so many people in this world go without.
There should be a law against companies doing all this crap. Unfortunately, they have bought too many of the politicians.
There is in France
Coffee beans start looosing their taste by the day, if I go to Starbucks I should expect to pay for coffee made with fresh coffee beans, besides that food could go to a methead
Thats all starbuck's stuff and they can do any shit they want to do with it.
In my made up country which I ain’t real any good food that is still good Hass to be donated to the homeless and stuff like it has to be donated in someway or another
There isn't for a reason. 1 it's on the side of the road which means anyone is actually allowed to take any of this, only catch is, if you decide to take any food that could make you sick that's on you 2 the thrown away food can make you sick. Either food was sitting in warm humid area that encourages fungus growth or simply staying in a warm area decreasing it's freshness faster can all contribute to someone getting sick and thus can get the company in serious trouble. Plus the food will make it back in the life cycle anyways. 3 this is cheap shit. Which means the stuff to make all this is probably toxic anyways and doesn't serve anyone's health in a good way 😂😂
I would hace snatched those gift cards💀💀😭😭
I used to work at Starbucks and our manager use to encourage us to take stuff home, even after the District Manager found out. They just said "Hide the stuff you take from now on.:
You do understand that by taking such a stuff you avoided PAYING TAXES? Normally you'd have to buy food and there is a tax on that.
Al Capone wasn't put in jail for just killing people, he was jailed for much more serious crime: tax evasion...
@@Edi_J How much tax do you pay on free stuff?
Not buying stuff is not tax evasion.
@@jasperzanovich2504 You have to eat. If you get the food you won't buy it. And you won't pay the tax included in the price.
@@Edi_J By that definition growing your own food is tax evasion.
@@Edi_Jit’s not that serious
Hopefully she contacted the local shelter/kitchen for the homeless and got all that food somewhere it could be desperately used.
Unfortunately since that food is technically now trash the chairitys cant legal give it to them die ti sanitation laws.
OMG I'm all for taking some for yourself but damn take it the shelter was the first thing I thought!!
@@sherrik4413she's in America she's probably broke herself
Exactly!👏🏾
Corporations can’t give these away because if someone gets sick from it they could sue.
Starbucks throws away stuff like this every night at nearly every single location.
That's why they charge so much.
Tax write off
@@shacktime No.
@@Dice-Z How much you wanna f-ing bet, 🤡 I’ve helped build and run businesses, including a family owned restaurant. We got to write off food waste. It’s part of the cost of doing business.
“The internet can be used for almost anything. Shame most people use it to be stupid.”🫵🏼
In the uk any unused stock is either kept until its end date or donated.
Absolutely as long as it was completely sealed and I'm not ashamed to say so.
"Would you have taken any of this stuff home?" Hell yes!!!!
"some of that stuff"??? ALL OF IT!!!!!
It's a big nope for me!
I would definitely be happy to add that to my daily handing out boxes, I would cry if I find any food in my garbage can, my family knows the law, no food goes to the garbage, any leave over food, rice or anything, it goes to feed the animals, birds etc, it takes a lot of time to do things correct today but tomorrow there are no regrets,
Fuck no I wouldn't even go to an open Starbucks..why would I go get there garbage for free?
no. I would never waste food, but if it's already in the trash, it's done.
I used to work at Starbucks. We did have to throw out food that was close to the best by date or the one day mark after we had pulled it from freezers. However the food was still good for days. We had a few homeless guys that stayed around the corner where our store was so I would just put it in a bag and take it to them when I got off. I would also take some for myself no lie. I loved the pumpkin bread. It was nice.
Starbucks has always tossed out good food for their “legal purposes.”
It should be made illegal
If Starbucks didn’t, people would be upset that there was “bad” food on the shelves. Even if you gave it away someone could say to gave them bad food and sue. Don’t blame the companies with this practice, blame the people.
A company was sued by a guy after they gave away the remaining food one day after the shift. The company had to pay huge money so ever since all companies throw away rather than giving
In US, Throwing out food a day before expiry is ridiculous !
I had seen in UK they sell it at discounted price and on day of expiry it's at 90% to 95% discount and now a days it's given to people who can't afford to buy food be it low income earnings or homeless people !
Have seen my few friends who would buy these non veg foods and put in deep freezer and use it even after few days after expiry !
@@szeming143Bad people ruin the good things for the majority... While I understand it's frustrating to see it, companies have tried to give short expiry food for free but people have taken from those who need it, sued for illness, made messes of the stores and probably more. Who knows what this food has been through? Has it been part of a contaminated lot? Misprinted dates? Accidentally left under a hot lamp for hours? By no means am I defending a big company for food waste but why would they waste perfectly good product if it could be sold by a store transfer or done a large promotion at a huge discount in the last couple days.
bro had the food lottery
bro I would have taken everything. called my friend up and been like girl get your truck we got gold over here!!! 😂
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Yes and if it was still packed I would have donated it to a local food bank!
That’s why they say “ other man’s trash is other men’s treasure “
One mans, trash is another man's treasure bro, for fucks sake.
I've never heard anyone say that, ever.
There's the classic "one *man's* trash is another *man's* treasure", did you mean that? Is "people" the new inclusive term?
Now she got her own Starbucks👏🏾good for her it’s not going to be wasted
I would have donated most of it. Great find
Bro could of opened up her own starbucks 💀
Damn near😭😭💯 that’s amaerica for ya 🦅💀
What if the FDA found her collect stuff from the trash
Not really…
@@Tomago9387 you lack humor and ain’t gone bother nobody😭😭
Well she cant, she could get sued for impersonating a company, if she wanna she has to have a contract with the hq
Also i know this is a joke im just giving info :)
At Dunkins, all the doughnuts on the shelves either get sold or get thrown away. This is why when it's close to closing I'll offer free doughnuts to customers
Nah now many shops employee sell them at very cheap during the closing hours. I don't know if its legal or not
I worked there for almost a year and omg doing that at close everyday hurt my soul. I’d give out doughnuts or bring a couple dozen home for family n friends. Also we weren’t aloud to take them fo the homeless shelter bc my location had run ins with the people staying at the shelter claiming that the doughnuts made them sick to get money and my gm didn’t want us to get sued 🤦🏻♀️
yea, as long as its close but not "after hours" donuts, you are fine(?) from any liability
@@lpslover-mp2yyyeah often the needy are the cause of people not wanting to donate to the needy. When you’re that poor and likely an addict your mentality is so different that normal people have trouble understanding it.
True
Do not yell at Starbucks workers for throwing away food. If we take it home or give it away, we get fired.
Exactly. People don’t understand that there’s policies in place to where their employees can’t do that.
Yep, people being penalized for doing the morally right thing 😠😡
well you can't get fired from a starbucks that is permenantly closed
Who cares? Get hired at the next Starbucks down the street.
i tried to as much as i could :p where i used to work at was near a lot of homeless shelters so a lot of ppl would come in and ask for hot water and the store managers would always get on my ass for not charging 27 cents for water like it even matters bruh. a multimillion company doesn’t care about losing 27 cents. i also gave away food that we were supposed to throw out (it was still good but it’s policy to throw food out after 3 days) and tbh i stole a lot of cups and shit from there. i didn’t really care because starbucks makes so much money but it always pissed me off how managers cared about the tiniest amount of money just so someone could have water
coming from a former starbs employee the sad truth is that so much is wasted instead of donated like it’s supposed to be. they wouldn’t let us take home food all the time unless it was marked out either
The staff that came back after shift ends, only to find out the secret stash had been ransacked.
I've closed restaurants before. Trust me when I say this, this is 100% everything left after the staff looted everything they wanted. I've gotten so much free food from closing down restaurants it's ridiculous.
The way they threw it out they did on purpose so people would find it and take it, ideally so homeless people can loot this shit.
20 mins later... the food bank pulls up and can not find their curbside donation.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣
I use to do food bank pick ups and about 10 percent of the time the donations wouldnt be there when we showed up.
If I remember correctly Dunkin Donuts used to donate their leftover donuts to homeless people in the area at the end of the business day. One of the homeless people got sick and they sued Dunkin Donuts for food poisoning. Since then Dunkin have been throwing out their Donuts every single day... that one homeless person ruined it for everyone.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
I’m always saying this phrase. It’s soooo true!
Two reasons for not donating:
1. If by any chance if anything happens who consumes them( donated) then starbucks get sued for negligence which effects brand name.
2. Even if its done probably employees take stuff to their home and say they have donated, simply to stop stealing.
3. Starbucks products are fresh and hygiene so we can take them home.
I worked there for sometime and I don't know for what reasons they throw lot of stuff even before expiry date. May be it has something to do with batch inspections, supply chain issues or if any outlet opens after a holiday then most of the stuff would be not good so then trash them.
A friend who worked in a Harlem Starbucks put a couple bags of food next to the bin, and i said "damn that's wasteful" and he looked at me and said "someone will eat them." I said "are you sure?", and he looked very serious and said "someone will eat them." And I understood.
I don't understand
@@hazy9785pretty sure he knows a maybe a homeless will eat it
Yes a person going thru trash bins for recycles will take bags of good wrapped food. Especially in the condition this video is showing. Its a gold mine in their eyes. Bless him for his acts of kindness. Best was the bakery near our house. They put stuff aside out back in a bin that wasn't used for for trash. Bless those that help...
As a broke student
I do this alot
I even steal mc nugget that meant for cat
Ofc i leave some for the kitties too
I work in a Starbucks warehouse, and you wouldn't believe how much they throw out.
let us know for more ...
Ofcourse they would cz PPL pay for their overpriced products from store so even after throwing away they still make good profits
As someone working in the culinary industry, we have extremely strict food safety rules. If someone were to get sick because we were giving away food, then it would cause a whole bunch of issues. If an item becomes unsanitary (cups, napkins, utensils), then we aren't allowed to keep it. We have to throw it away. Those egg bites are supposed to be frozen and refrigerated right before use, because if they are in the food tempature danger zone (41°F - 140°F) it causes dangerous bacteria to grow even more rapidly then it usually would. If you have any questions, I would be willing to answer them.
My man. Thank you for explaining so I didn't have to. It's sad people have been sued for donating food. Greed of one starves many.
during the videos there was caption which said still cold so I mean it's still safe
@monalishamanna1929 Cold, may still not below 41°F.
I used to work at a grocery store we know this as well. People dont understand that.
@jenniferromero571 I mean, I kind of understand. People who work in the food, medical, and cleaning industries know mostly because they learned it when they got their education/job in the subject.
Before I started working professionally with food, I didn't know, so it's understandable.
"I definitely would have.." i would too,that stuff looks good.
Closed permanently. That's why. 😵💫 That's when she should of called her family to bring a truck, and load all that up. It was her Gold mine, and she didn't take advantage of it. The lunch truck's in the city would of bought everything. Cups, napkins. 💰💰💰 When they say don't count your blessings. Girl you were blessed. 👍
The point is that they could've donated all of it but they'd rather throw it out.
@@SasquatchPJsThat's what I it the point, the point is she wasted all that stuff too. She could have donated it herself, or told food trucks about it.
I worked in an industrial kitchen where they prepare microwaved food products and they closed down and they told me to just get rid of everything. Over a two week period I gave out hundreds of Pounds of food to neighbors, friends, family, homeless, other businesses.
My back seat was completely full of random food 😂
Yesss ✊✊✊God bless you ❤️
They did tell ypu to get rid of it, and it didn't go to waste.
I would’ve brought my car and take everything lol. Starbucks is expensive af!
Same
And delicious
I don't even go to star bucks but I would take everything 😂
You own a car? My family travel by foot or local commute. You are more expensive than us
the reason for that is the company might get sued typically if unsold produce was handed out as for example many companies are obligated to throw away food even If not expired ! for them the lawsuit would cost a ton more than the cost of the food and stuff
As a former starbucks employee, i can guarantee this happens at every store in the world daily. The waste is insane.
Yes I work at a big box store and I have to toss alot of stuff in our compactor it's sad.
We cannot give out that stuff, it’s really unfortunate. People can get in trouble and even fired for giving away perfectly fine products.
well thats sad:(
definitely the type of pfp i would expect from a Starbucks employee
@@hat4621 No one cares.
@@hat4621i personally dont like lgbt but hey at least they have a job and work hard for their living
@@corge69 I never said it was useful
Every company has policies like this. Especially ones with stupidly overpriced goods.
it's normal. If they gift this stuff away they have to pay more taxes (gift taxes) and a lot of fees to secure what they are giving complies with health standards. Also, usually it happens only with businesses that are shutting down completely. If one of the products they donate causes physical discomfort they can be sued or their image could be damaged.
Policies dont matter when the employees dont care...
I hate people that are wasteful! It's easier for them to throw it out as a business loss than donate it!