Reply #15: The basic food rule that is universal across restaurants, cafeterias

[masuki bance]

supermarkets, fast food locations, pizzerias, 711's, etc, etc on infinitum. is that food does not get taken home for free unless approved by owners or management. Any other policy encourages waste. Pizza delivery guys get friends to order extra pizza's for pickup near closing, never planning on getting them. Extra pizza? Take it home. Same concept works on all levels, take out 2 frozen packages of chicken instead of the 1 that is actually needed, "..oops I should take this home or it will go to waste". This type of activity is stealing, stealing from the school budgets and ultimately from the students in the case described above. Accountability for waste is the responsibility of supervisors, management and owners. Purchasing, storage, inventory controls, proper planning, spoilage and the rest all have proven ways of being controlled. Any food business that runs with the attitude that the employees should just take home "extra" food without permission will be out of business in very, very short order.