Maybe outside the US, but we have Good Samaritan laws at the federal level to expedite charitable donations from corporations. Any rules you may have encountered, in the US, were put in place voluntarily by the company.
Source: Food Safety Manager that went to war over this exact issue with a pizza hut franchise and won.
Yeah, most excuses I hear are really just excuses. Even had a shop refuse to sell me something after its best before date despite it being on the shelf at a reduced price. They said its illegal to sell it to me - no it isn’t, there is another shop just round the corner which makes that their entire business model by selling reduced stuff past its best before date.
Had I been feeling more argumentative I would have been tempted to leave the money on the counter and just walk off with it. Yes it is kinda stealing, but no one is going to enforce that. “So you are saying he left the money on the counter and walked off with it? Yeah stop wasting our time”
Only because we let corporations write off the value of the food they donate to charity, off their taxes. Canada does not let them do that, and they have a lot less donations to food banks as a result.
It’s all quid pro quo stuff, you notice food banks make you prove you live in the area with a piece of mail, they aren’t giving it out to anyone, it’s a charity that harvests tax write offs.
Maybe outside the US, but we have Good Samaritan laws at the federal level to expedite charitable donations from corporations. Any rules you may have encountered, in the US, were put in place voluntarily by the company.
Source: Food Safety Manager that went to war over this exact issue with a pizza hut franchise and won.
Yeah, most excuses I hear are really just excuses. Even had a shop refuse to sell me something after its best before date despite it being on the shelf at a reduced price. They said its illegal to sell it to me - no it isn’t, there is another shop just round the corner which makes that their entire business model by selling reduced stuff past its best before date.
Had I been feeling more argumentative I would have been tempted to leave the money on the counter and just walk off with it. Yes it is kinda stealing, but no one is going to enforce that. “So you are saying he left the money on the counter and walked off with it? Yeah stop wasting our time”
Only because we let corporations write off the value of the food they donate to charity, off their taxes. Canada does not let them do that, and they have a lot less donations to food banks as a result.
It’s all quid pro quo stuff, you notice food banks make you prove you live in the area with a piece of mail, they aren’t giving it out to anyone, it’s a charity that harvests tax write offs.