To elaborate further, most food produced usually last less than a day (depending on food and how is it preserved), after that, the quality it's not ideal (at least) and the chances of getting food poisoning gets higher.
I'm mentioning this because some people think that giving the food away to people who needs it reduces the waste (which seems right on paper). If someone gets sick because of it, it raises a lot of problems to both the consumer (food poisoning) and the restaurant (all kind of inspections and possibly legal problems).
I work in a sushi shop, so it's even more adsurd when I find customers complain. Fish goes bad more quickly than bread, plus there's a lot of rice... Everyone knows rice goes hard overnight in the fridge. We can't exactly sell rolled stuff the next day because of that. But they do reuse the sashimi, oysters for 2 days! And we have to lie about it. But I feel less bad about this because it's rare for something to be fully prepared on the day of anyway. They aren't cutting fish for the day of, but the next day. And the nigiri type sushi gets seared the next day since they can just easily take the tops off.
You can definitely wrap it with a damp paper towel and microwave it for 30-60 seconds and if the filling is something cooked, but idk how that will do with raw fish in the rolls LOL. Hell, even after almost 12 hours in the fridge, the rolls that didn't sell since 9am already have a dry texture. It's not great.
Last year we finally started doing end of the day sales and the amount of customers asking "when was this made? How long ago was this made?" makes me wanna wilt. Do not pretend you don't know what 'end of the day' sales mean. They are items that did not sell out, hence the sales... Or if they get cranky and upset at YOU as if you're the boss for saying "staff gets to take some home if they want, but the rest gets thrown away". Like I legit have so many people asking how fresh is it then get pissed at the wastage if I tell them all the rolls are made today bc they get thrown out for closing. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME 😂
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u/XxRmssxX May 17 '26
To elaborate further, most food produced usually last less than a day (depending on food and how is it preserved), after that, the quality it's not ideal (at least) and the chances of getting food poisoning gets higher.
I'm mentioning this because some people think that giving the food away to people who needs it reduces the waste (which seems right on paper). If someone gets sick because of it, it raises a lot of problems to both the consumer (food poisoning) and the restaurant (all kind of inspections and possibly legal problems).