I got back from eating at a buffet restaurant today. It got me thinking of a world where all restaurants were buffets. Of course, it’ll never happen, but imagine if it did.
One of the (many) things that bugged me when I was working at a restaurant was the wasted food. We’d throw out huge amounts of food every day because people would order something and not eat it. With all the starvation in the world (and communities), throwing out food seems like such a crime.
Buffet restaurants, however, have less of a problem with wasted food. Patrons can have as much food as they need. Sometimes that means more, sometimes it means less. But in either case, the restaurant isn’t telling the patron how much to eat: the patron decides.
At the end of the day, a buffet restaurant can safely donate leftover food because it never touched the patrons’ plates. Homeless shelters and “meals-on-wheels” programs could benefit.
This would also battle the problem of Americans gaining too much weight. With so many meals offered “super-sized,” people feel compelled to finish them, even when its too much food.
Oh well, some thoughts on a rainy day.
We totally agree!!!