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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 289283" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Many places here are turned away from donating food to the local homeless shelter and even the food pantry. If you donate to either place the food MUST come in one the heavy duty baking sheets or cooking pans that restaurants use in steam tables. They cannot take bagels in plastic bags or cardboard boxes for some irrational reason. They once told me the reason, but it didn't make sense.</p><p></p><p>The kicker for restaurants is that you cannot put your name on the pans/containers because they will pull off masking or freezer tape because it could "harbor germs" and they do NOT give the trays back most of the time. Several restaurants that were newer actually came close to going out of business because of this! They actually lost that many pans (and were poorly capitalized to start with). The shelters keep NO track of how many pans you donate and they let just anyone take them. They pile them OUTSIDE for anyone to take because they "can't take the time and manpower" to monitor this. If they even paid someone to keep track of the pans that came in (how many and from whom) and then make sure each business got that many pans back they would get THOUSANDS of dollars of food each week! But for saving a few bucks they are losing enormous donations - and garnering ill will in the business community.</p><p></p><p>Penny wise and pound foolish. </p><p></p><p>I think that if they have volunteers it should just be "habit" that they get served first Or they get to put their food aside and THEN unload teh rest from the truck. Pick up their stuff after they actually work. </p><p></p><p>Sadly, our lawsuit happy society makes it hard on nonprofit organizations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 289283, member: 1233"] Many places here are turned away from donating food to the local homeless shelter and even the food pantry. If you donate to either place the food MUST come in one the heavy duty baking sheets or cooking pans that restaurants use in steam tables. They cannot take bagels in plastic bags or cardboard boxes for some irrational reason. They once told me the reason, but it didn't make sense. The kicker for restaurants is that you cannot put your name on the pans/containers because they will pull off masking or freezer tape because it could "harbor germs" and they do NOT give the trays back most of the time. Several restaurants that were newer actually came close to going out of business because of this! They actually lost that many pans (and were poorly capitalized to start with). The shelters keep NO track of how many pans you donate and they let just anyone take them. They pile them OUTSIDE for anyone to take because they "can't take the time and manpower" to monitor this. If they even paid someone to keep track of the pans that came in (how many and from whom) and then make sure each business got that many pans back they would get THOUSANDS of dollars of food each week! But for saving a few bucks they are losing enormous donations - and garnering ill will in the business community. Penny wise and pound foolish. I think that if they have volunteers it should just be "habit" that they get served first Or they get to put their food aside and THEN unload teh rest from the truck. Pick up their stuff after they actually work. Sadly, our lawsuit happy society makes it hard on nonprofit organizations. [/QUOTE]
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