We Had To Let Harry Go, Redux

[Don Coyote]

I've worked in restaurants and stores where excess food at the end of the day was donated to a homeless shelter. Sure, it requires a tiny bit of expense (putting food into covered hot pans and paying an employee to drive it to the shelter) but for roughly $8, the restaurant got to feed twenty or so people every day who otherwise would have gone hungry.

My friend runs a bakery, and he does the same thing with leftover baked goods at the end of the day.

The Frantz bakery here in Portland takes its day-olds to the community college lounge for struggling students to take home.

There are plenty of ways to alleviate waste without creating a disease risk or social problem.

BUT NIGEL THAT REQUIRES WORK TO BE DONE AFTER WORK!!!!!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I've worked in restaurants and stores where excess food at the end of the day was donated to a homeless shelter. Sure, it requires a tiny bit of expense (putting food into covered hot pans and paying an employee to drive it to the shelter) but for roughly $8, the restaurant got to feed twenty or so people every day who otherwise would have gone hungry.

My friend runs a bakery, and he does the same thing with leftover baked goods at the end of the day.

The Frantz bakery here in Portland takes its day-olds to the community college lounge for struggling students to take home.

There are plenty of ways to alleviate waste without creating a disease risk or social problem.

BUT NIGEL THAT REQUIRES WORK TO BE DONE AFTER WORK!!!!!

Unfortunately, that does seem to be the way a lot of people look at it. My friend had to fire one of his drivers because she was too fucking lazy to drive to the shelter at the end of the day, and was just THROWING THE BREAD OUT THE TRUCK WINDOW instead.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I was in Portland a lonnnnng time ago and they were pretty progressive about feeding people. They had a cafe called Sisters of the Road where a plate was always $1 and coffee was always ten cents. Google tells me it still exists, but it might be different now. All they ever dished up was chili and cheese on a bed of rice, but it was a buck.

[Freeky]

Most of this thread is D:  except the bits of humanitarianism which is awesome.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I was in Portland a lonnnnng time ago and they were pretty progressive about feeding people. They had a cafe called Sisters of the Road where a plate was always $1 and coffee was always ten cents. Google tells me it still exists, but it might be different now. All they ever dished up was chili and cheese on a bed of rice, but it was a buck.

You can live for a long time on chili and cheese.  Beats having your belly button kissing your spine.

And that's the bitch of it, right?  This isn't calculus.  You take people, make sure they've got a place to sleep, enough to eat, maybe not get their head caved in by muggers and shit.

"The gunner's dream", as some spag once described it.

[Pergamos]

Food not bombs is a good organization for distributing that stuff (expired food).  If there is one in the area they'll come and pick it up and distribute it.  They only take vegan stuff though.

A lot of local food pantries will as well, but not all of them.  I know in my area the Salvation army will not.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I was in Portland a lonnnnng time ago and they were pretty progressive about feeding people. They had a cafe called Sisters of the Road where a plate was always $1 and coffee was always ten cents. Google tells me it still exists, but it might be different now. All they ever dished up was chili and cheese on a bed of rice, but it was a buck.

You can live for a long time on chili and cheese.  Beats having your belly button kissing your spine.

And that's the bitch of it, right?  This isn't calculus.  You take people, make sure they've got a place to sleep, enough to eat, maybe not get their head caved in by muggers and shit.

"The gunner's dream", as some spag once described it.

Chili and cheese is damn good. And they were apparently filling up styrofoam to-go plates for a buck each and making enough to stay open. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I was in Portland a lonnnnng time ago and they were pretty progressive about feeding people. They had a cafe called Sisters of the Road where a plate was always $1 and coffee was always ten cents. Google tells me it still exists, but it might be different now. All they ever dished up was chili and cheese on a bed of rice, but it was a buck.

Yep, it's still around!