Waste of food - who is worst?

Question

Do buffet restaurant have more food wasted by the end of the day than other restaurant?

Answer 1

buffets. people only eat what they want, so if there is an unpopular item it just gets wasted. and in order to keep customers coming, the buffets have to constantly have food out, even if no one is eating it. this means that it'll all end up in the bin if no one comes. also if business is slow, the ingredient expire, meaning you are either eating old food, or they throw it away.

restaurants on the other hand hopefully cook to order, thus only cooking what people WANT to eat, meaning very little waste. and usually they get good enough business that nothing expires and has to be thrown out.

Answer 2

I refuse to go to buffet.

they waste tons of food and people are leaning over it coughing.  It is bad enough to think of what they do in the kitchen but then you have people touching bread and putting it back.

You eat to much and waste to much I think they should be banned.

Everyone should eat at taco bell.  Love those bean burritos.

and no one has to die.

Answer 3

yes, because they costomers pay for all the food they want, so if they dont like it or sont want as much as they got, then the throw it away and get something else. But a regular resurant you order by the entree, so more people would eat it all or most of it, to get there moneys worth

Answer 4

All the food we waste here in America is such ashame. People are staving in the world. What they would give for just a taste of what we waste.Buffet restaurants are the worst...because that's where we make pigs of ourselves.

Answer 5

I would never go to a buffet restaurant and I think most people agree with me.  Well, ones my age.

Adults waste so much food they could feed the third world countries.

Also, if you go vegetarian, you would have a surplus of grain.

Feeding the grain to animals and then eating dead animals.

Uses more fresh water, grain and power.

Simply cutting out eating meat would feed all the starving in the world.

Yes, go to taco bell, bean burritos or 7 layer jobs.

Pizza hut and get a vegetarian pizza.  They are delicious.

Usually I try not to eat cheese or any milk products.

But when going out it is hard they have pasta dishes without meat.  So if anyone asks it is pizza hut.

Answer 6

Vegans have the smalest "consumption foot print"

Unfortunatly, in order to make money, many restaurants have to charge a certian price for food, and justify it with huge portions.  (food cost is lower that labor, do the math)

This applies to buffet, and live service.  Most people who are not obese, will throw away up to half of a live service meal.

Answer 7

Buffets are so wasteful.  I have seen people load up plates and plates of food and not touch it.   It is a shame that we don't realize that our resources are dwindling and demand conservation.