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In reply to the discussion: Posting without comment [View all]FSogol
(45,446 posts)34. Have you not heard of the Food Recovery Network? Info in thread:
https://www.foodrecoverynetwork.org/what-we-do
Food Recovery Network is the largest student-led movement fighting food waste and working to end hunger in America.
In 2011, Ben, Mia, Cam, and Evan, students at the University of Maryland, College Park noticed good dining hall food was ending up in the trash at the end of the night. By the end of the school year, FRN at UMD had recovered 30,000 meals to DC-area hunger-fighting nonprofits.
During the Spring semester of 2012, the second FRN chapter was founded at Brown University. UMD and Brown soon joined forces with two other campus food recovery programs at University of California, Berkeley and Pomona College.
In May 2013, the Sodexo Foundation provided FRN with founding funding to hire a full-time staff and transition into a professional nonprofit! Since then, we've swept the nation and made higher education the first sector where food recovery is the norm and not the exception.
They collect and redistribute it using safe food handling practices.
Go Terps!
Food Recovery Network is the largest student-led movement fighting food waste and working to end hunger in America.
In 2011, Ben, Mia, Cam, and Evan, students at the University of Maryland, College Park noticed good dining hall food was ending up in the trash at the end of the night. By the end of the school year, FRN at UMD had recovered 30,000 meals to DC-area hunger-fighting nonprofits.
During the Spring semester of 2012, the second FRN chapter was founded at Brown University. UMD and Brown soon joined forces with two other campus food recovery programs at University of California, Berkeley and Pomona College.
In May 2013, the Sodexo Foundation provided FRN with founding funding to hire a full-time staff and transition into a professional nonprofit! Since then, we've swept the nation and made higher education the first sector where food recovery is the norm and not the exception.
They collect and redistribute it using safe food handling practices.
Go Terps!
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The cup of water had better have some ice in it or there will be hell to pay, right?
George II
Apr 2021
#56
Yup. With Ilitch at the helm for so long, it is not surprising Little Caesars
cyndensco
Apr 2021
#18
A friend of mine struck up a conversation with one of the catering crew after a conference in SF.
BobTheSubgenius
Apr 2021
#17
Thanks for a great story. One that I had never heard before. Hand salute to "Uncle Wiggly Wings"!
usaf-vet
Apr 2021
#100
Health codes here forbid unsold food from going out to shelters, schools,
yellowdogintexas
Apr 2021
#70
This is fantastic. Here is my experience with corporate restaurants and throwing out food ...
aggiesal
Apr 2021
#16
A woman here in Victoria is the franchisee for 5 Tim Hortons locations locally.
BobTheSubgenius
Apr 2021
#20
So kind of you! I never thought of it that way, more like "just another day" in an unjust world.
catrose
Apr 2021
#105
I hate Tim Hortons...all of ours have closed. True story, we went to one in Erie PA or NY...I forget
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#65
I know a little about Little Caesars because we go there sometimes and my son is a Red Wings fan
amuse bouche
Apr 2021
#63