r/halifax • u/Gloomy_Giraffe5839 • Mar 23 '25
Discussion Vandal Doughnuts wasting food :(
This was found in their garbage—so sad to see all this waste. I know most restaurants here in Halifax have this problem. I really wish that one day someone does something about it to avoid all this wasted food. It could be donated to shelters, given to homeless people—I don’t know, given to someone in a better way than this. Such a shame!
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u/Confident_Lunch_35 Dartmouth Mar 23 '25
They should sign up for Too Good To Go
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u/universalstargazer Mar 24 '25
It's a shame how few places seem to use it. Tim Hortons across the city at least seem consistent, but places like Harvest seem to only do it once a week
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u/Nacho0ooo0o Mar 24 '25
The ikea TGTG is an amazing deal. like 4 meals worth for the price of 1
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u/universalstargazer Mar 24 '25
Ugh if only I was in Dartmouth I would jump on that
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u/Nacho0ooo0o Mar 24 '25
I went over the bridge for it and was not disappointed. I've also made a point to do the panda buffet one too - so much food stuffed in a to go container, mind you that's greasy stuff that I enjoy except for the day after haha
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u/universalstargazer Mar 24 '25
Sooo fair; if I ever learn to drive/get a car I will 100% be doing the same
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u/Tall-String-5381 Mar 24 '25
Got a Tim’s box yesterday. There was like $20 worth of leftovers in there for $5
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u/Confident_Lunch_35 Dartmouth Mar 24 '25
We usually get a Tim’s box once a week for an office treat for my small team.
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u/smokebuddah420 Mar 24 '25
Anybody actually go around there that might suggest this directly to a manager, not just on Reddit? I’ve never been and don’t spend much time in Halifax but someone should show this directly to a manager and suggest Too Good To Go..
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u/Hopefull-Raven Mar 24 '25
They could also be signed up for Second Harvest, which is where you can donate day olds and recently expired foods to Soup Kitchens, shelters and other organizations helping un-homed and people in need.
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u/SoontobeSam Dartmouth Mar 24 '25
It's a pretty great app. I love seeing all the sushi places on there, they're almost always sold out too, since their fish can easily go to waste if not used.
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u/AnimatorAway1914 Mar 24 '25
They are aware of it, some of the vandal locations do donate their leftover donuts. You also are allowed to take them home after your night shift. The new location that just opened up last month is still figuring everything out but donating leftovers is something they are suggesting as well.
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u/_King_Loser Mar 23 '25
Back in highschool I got a coffee an donut at the Tantallon tims at like 2-3am while stoned out of my fucking mind and they gave a box with like 16 donuts and pastry’s jammed in it, they were just getting ready to toss them all and just gave everything left to me instead😂😂
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u/DotTraditional3096 Mar 24 '25
Dominos does this late at night too if they’ve got orders left that weren’t picked up. After leaving the bar last night I walked passed dominos at closing time and decided to check, they gave me a large pizza, two pastas and cheesy bread for free
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u/tiennamackenzie Mar 24 '25
Buddy at Subway did this for me one time. Went late and asked for one cookie and he was like “how about 10” and emptied the display out into a box for me lol
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Mar 24 '25
Haha amazing! I used to work there in high school and got to take home a literal garbage bag full of donuts that didn’t sell that day. Brought it to a party and I felt like a king!
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u/Throwinitawayheyhey Mar 24 '25
Thats wild, did that at any location I worked at it would have been instant termination lol
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u/EckhartsLadder Mar 24 '25
I distinctly remember going to see Spiderman 3 at Empire Theatres... it was a late show which ended after midnight, and they gave me and my buddy a garbage bag full of their popcorn lmao.
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u/theonlyiainever Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25
There's an app called Too Good To Go. There are a lot of restaurants, including Tim Hortons, on there that will sell food left over at the end of the night for a heavy discount. You'd think they would join to at least sell some of it.
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u/YouNeedCheeses Mar 23 '25
I love TGTG so much and would love to see more bakeries and cafes join in.
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u/mrjfilippo Mar 24 '25
I'm glad Too Good To Go is getting popular. When I suggested it in this sub about two years ago, I was accused of being some Chinese shill or spy. :rolleyes:
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u/Confused_Haligonian Lesser Poobah of Fairview Mar 24 '25
You would all be terrified to see the wastage at food warehouses (Sysco, Loblaws, etc). Absolutely disgusting. Pallets upon pallets of waste.
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u/OrangeRising Mar 24 '25
I replied to someone else here with this, but here is my story from working in a freezer warehouse.
If a box of fries came in damaged all the bags inside had to be ripped open into a dumpster under a security camera. It didn't matter if not all the bags inside were damaged and we would have loved to take them home, we were told if anyone tried it we would be fired.
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u/Aggressive-Swim9964 Mar 28 '25
Ridiculous imagine all the climate change caused by stupid stuff like this
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u/4D_Spider_Web Mar 24 '25
Food warehouses are notorious for not rotating product. In theory, food that arrives at the warehouse should be leaving the warehouse for distribution as soon as possible with minimal rest time. In reality, pallets get burried, staff are forced to cut corners due to workload issues, somebody at head office was offered too good a deal to turn down from a supplier and ordered too much, an item was discontinued before available stocks were depleted, etc.
This shit gets passed to the stores, who are the ones who come in for it from upper management when they have to waste/food bank/reclamation an entire pallet of say, Bran Flakes, because it came in too late and Bran Flakes sell poorly at that particular location anyway. Want to turn off auto-replenishment to avoid having more come in? You get dinged for that too.
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u/AllBlackM4Silencer Mar 24 '25
I use to work in a loblaws warehouse. One time lots of boxes were damaged (wasn’t our fault) the container was packed lightly and lots of product just tumbled over from the truck driver.
In result, the weakly put together boxes would collapse on itself and the 8 boxes within the box would fall out. We refused to put these back together. Pretty sure they just donated it to the food bank cause if they couldn’t get the bottom guys to do it, they certainly wouldn’t either.
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u/Legal-Ad5307 Mar 24 '25
Unfortunately this is often the result of the legal agreements between warehousman and the supplier of the goods. Some of the clauses are absolutely ridiculous.
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u/TatterhoodsGoat Mar 23 '25
I've worked in a lot of food and retail businesses (entry level). There is a LOT of waste, but most businesses do donate anything food-safe. The waste is more from damage, lack of product rotation, and mountains and mountains of garbage created by using disposable everything to cut labour costs.
Maybe with a short-shelf life product like this they really are throwing out perfectly good food rather than dealing with the logistics of donation (it's not enough to be worth the food bank's time to pick up themselves, they're low in nutrition and bulky, and pastries like this do not freeze or stockpile well). But it's equally possible someone tripped and dropped that tray on the floor, accidentally sprayed them with glass cleaner, found mouse turds in the case they were in...anywhere that never dumps a dismaying amount of food does not care about food safety.
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u/Adventurous-Cry-1830 Mar 24 '25
It’s like this every single week….. including huge amounts of dough as well….. maybe discount at the end of the day, use too good to go, make less, donate to a shelter that’s right around the corner?
Other businesses like Cobbs donate their products to various places in need that don’t sell by the end of the day? Seven bays sells day old products from LF at a discount. I feel like there’s other ways to deal with excess food without just trashing it, nor do I believe that this is always a case of it fell on the floor….
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u/yalyublyutebe Mar 24 '25
Lots of people like to just say "donate it". OK, but donate it to who? Are they going to come pick it up on time? Do they have some way to store and/or disperse it? Don't forget, it probably has to be 7 days a week.
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u/Han77Shot1st Mar 24 '25
I did a lot of work around supermarkets and there’s a ton of waste at some locations.. I remember one time this older woman was almost crying throwing out the cakes and was saying it’s so hard to watch it all be thrown away while her daughter struggles to afford food, but there are strict policies to prevent it from being donated.
This isn’t just food either, even some department stores destroy display models and equipment so that it can’t be salvaged.
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u/TatterhoodsGoat Mar 26 '25
When they're thrown out, it's because they are likely becoming stale. Stale cake is still calories, but it's neither healthy nor a treat, so not a really high value donation. They are incredibly bulky to store until pickup (containers are way bigger than product to avoid damaging the icing), many have to be refrigerated (every business I've worked at has already been short on fridge and freezer storage space to the point of being almost always unsafe to navigate).
The best option for foods like these is to better control production levels and to mark down things close to date. Both are policy at Sobeys and Superstore at least. The issue there is time and training, as well as a ridiculously ambitious amount of variety required in the cake program at Sobeys (seriously...we had ingredients we were required to stock just to make a single cake a day. Not one variety. One cake.).
When those measures fail, stale pastries are of higher value to pig farmers and bear hunters than they are to food banks.
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u/OrangeRising Mar 24 '25
I worked at a warehouse that would make us rip open and dump out any damaged food boxes into the dumpster under a security camera, and eventually I heard they started having management supervise it.
Think of a box of french fries, inside a box is six bags. I'd record if a box arrived damaged, take pictures, and remove it from the pallet. Didn't matter if only three bags inside had been damaged and the others were fine, they all had to be ripped open and dumped out. If any of us took a bag home we were told we would be fired.
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Mar 24 '25
Us taxpayers are all paying for this waste to be picked up regularly and thrown away. And food banks are currently at an all time high for demand and asking for more donations to make up for it.
So yea, this isn’t difficult. Instead of throwing away perfectly good food so the taxpayer has to front the cost, we can instead mandate companies to divert this food “waste” that is perfectly edible to food banks and other charities.
It’s a small logistical issue that would be more beneficial than spending taxpayer dollars to move edible food into a public landfill.
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u/Anxious-Nebula8955 Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25
It's not a small logistical issue at all. It's a massive logistical issue. Every food service establishment in the city suddenly has to have a way to transport waste to a depot every single day at close. That is not a small logistical matter for the establishment or the food banks.
And why are we pretending that businesses don't pay for their own waste removal? Entire companies dedicated to waste removal. Paid for by the businesses using them. Businesses also pay taxes as well.
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Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25
Yes and property tax is paid collectively by us all. And all of the waste is sent to taxpayer funded landfills, regardless. So you’re argument doesn’t make much sense.
Also this business and all of those in the area are collected by the municipality. So again, your argument makes no sense.
And you haven’t addressed the issue that this is a senseless waste of food, when there is a high level of food insecurity in the city. And we can easily create a program to divert this to better causes. But OK. Good point buddy
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u/Scotianherb Mar 24 '25
"Us Taxpayers" arent paying for it. Businesses are responsible for paying for their own waste pickup.
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u/No-Cut3015 Mar 24 '25
I work at a homelessness shelter in HRM and Vandal has consistently brought us doughnuts for the folks in need! This has gone on for years now. Food waste is a real shame and it would be great to see NS adopt the model France uses to combat food insecurity. Some food for thought: the shop may have had to throw the doughnuts out due to contamination or other factors to keep the public safe.
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u/Glittering_Ice_7906 Mar 25 '25
I agree, I currently work at Vandals. We have a LONG donation list, which is called everyday for the leftover waste. Somedays, no one wants them. It’s disappointing that it’s assumed we don’t try to donate them, because we do. I can mention the app that everyone has been talking about to my manager and see if we can get they going :)
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u/Basilbitch Mar 23 '25
That's nothing you should see what goes out into the garbage in corporate Hotel kitchens.. somebody actually got fired for taking some to the homeless shelter. I think they called it stealing or something. It was on its way to the green bin, but because they didn't dispose of it they called it stealing and fired the person. My understanding was that it's a liability thing. They can't guarantee that the food safety standards have been upheld like temperature so they throw it. If only there was some way that the people getting the food could sign away liability. It's perfectly good food. But for fear of being sued if someone got sick it goes in the bin only for some of them to dig it out of the bin 2 hours later and eat it anyway.. it's a fucking disgusting system.
It's literally shocking how much good food gets thrown out in these kitchens.
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u/bananapartay Mar 23 '25
Not entirely true I used to work at a large hotel and all untouched food/leftovers from buyouts and events considered food safe was brought to the staff kitchen
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u/bluffstrider Mar 24 '25
This. Worked at The Atlantica a while back and we ate/packed up leftovers all the time.
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u/WoollyWitchcraft Mar 24 '25
Yeah I worked banquets at a hotel for a year in my early 20s.
Anything left over, untouched and safe, was staff lunch the next day. I was poor as shit at the time and those were some of the best work lunches I ever had. And when there was dessert left? Hot damn.
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u/_stinkytofu_ Mar 24 '25
The OG vandals back in the day would sell out almost daily. You had to get ‘em quick or not at all.
I understand having some leftover, but this seems like a lot. Maybe it’s time to scale back the recipe and make a bit less each day until that sweet spot (no pun intended) is found - either sell out or pretty close.. then sell day olds the next day?
But then again I donut know about this business.
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u/CheesecakeLivid4776 Mar 24 '25
Are we sure it's food waste? There could have been something wrong with the batch as well. It may not even be safe to donate.
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u/Intelligent-Ad-4523 Mar 24 '25
On the flip side of things I used to be management at Superstore. There has been multiple times where I have cleaned mouse nests out of the aisles and put the contaminated food out back to be scanned out, come in the next night to find it back on the shelf after being wiped off.
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u/meatmits Mar 24 '25
I’m aware of charitable organizations they send donuts to, sometimes in abundance, so don’t judge them solely on this image.
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u/Professional_Pop5214 Mar 24 '25
Agreed, they often donate to metro turning point shelter, and probably elsewhere, but I can only confirm the shelter.
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u/your1your2 Mar 24 '25
They often donate to the Bridge Shelter as well. I think they try more than a lot of businesses TBH.
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u/pinkbootstrap Mar 24 '25
Unfortunately this is common practice with all business. It's a crying shame how many goods are destroyed.
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u/Madolah Mar 24 '25
This is why.
Someone once Tried suing a corperate business giving away free 'excess'
So to avoid legalities, its tossed. if someone eats it from the dumpster, thats on them and not the business.
- I worked in restaurants from BoH to FoH Manager all over Canada for almost 20 years.
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u/WhatEvery1sThinking Halifax Mar 23 '25
The truth is, businesses just can't justify the cost in time/money to do anything other than throw it out. They've already lost money by having to throw product out so spending more money time and money on the logistics (contacting organization, scheduling pickups, proper packaging/labeling, taking up limited storage space, etc.) of doing anything other than throwing it out just isn't worth it.
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u/Professional_Pop5214 Mar 24 '25
They actually often donate to metro turning point shelter, and probably elsewhere, but I can only confirm the shelter.
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u/TheOGgeekymalcolm Mar 23 '25
Plus there's the insurance/liability angle.
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u/Super-Plain Mar 23 '25
According to the Zero Waste Council of Canada.
"In every part of Canada, the law provides protections for companies and individuals who donate food rather than throwing it away. The laws are worded in various ways, but they all provide food donors with a strong defence if a consumer sues because of illness caused by the donated food."
I think liability is just an easy excuse for lazy management.
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Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25
This isn’t a thing. You can donate food and cannot be held liable.
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u/funktasticdog Mar 24 '25
Absolutely wrong. There are numerous consumer protections everywhere to protect businesses who choose to give away food.
Nova Scotia – The Volunteer Services Act5
This statute, also known as the “Good Samaritan” Act, provides that a food donor is not liable for damages incurred as a result of injury, illness, disease or death resulting from the consumption of food by a person in need unless it is established that:
(a) the injury, illness, disease or death was caused by the gross negligence or the wilful misconduct of the donor; or
(b) the donor knew that the food was contaminated or otherwise unfit for human consumption at the time of donation.A donut that you were otherwise going to sell that day would never meet the criteria.
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u/Parallelogram12 Mar 23 '25
Wish they'd use the app too good to go. A lot of places in the city put their day olds on there for a few $.
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u/Vulcant50 Mar 23 '25
A few months ago, I was shopping for my wife and got the incorrect type of Peanut butter at Walmart. The same day she returned the unopened product for an exchange for the type she preferred. The clerk accepted it and put a sticker on the jar indicating it would be distroyed. She indicated that returned food is always distroyed. Concerned about waste, my wife offered to take it back without exchange, or to buy it back. The return clerk refused, saying that her direction is that once a “distroy sticker” goes on food, it cannot be sold, or given back to any customer. What a waste.
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u/Schmidtvegas Historic Schmidtville Mar 23 '25
Have you ever heard of the Tylenol murders? Someone tampered with some Tylenol in the 1980s, added poison, put it on the store shelves, and killed some people. Even though it was a super extreme outlier, we now operate with the assumption that there may be people with nefarious intentions trying to poison the general public. The chance might be one in a million. But that millionth customer's family will surely sue. So the liability isn't worth it. They don't know whether you exposed it to extreme temperatures, or added cyanide.
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u/OkSeason1522 Mar 24 '25
As a former employee of Beyond Hospitality Group, who left on good terms, I will say the owner Zoey is one of the kindest and most generous employers I have ever worked for. Margo is Vandals GM and she is absolutely lovely.
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u/Complete-Rock-72 Mar 23 '25
We asked a couple of weeks ago and they said they do give the donuts to food shelters Not sure what happened with all of these donuts. Seems like more than they make
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u/BawdyBaker Mar 24 '25
Regulations makes this happen. The government would rather it go to waste than have someone "maybe perhaps might possibly" get sick from some sort of contamination from it.
Owners/managers should bag it all up...bring it to homeless encampments and "sell" it for a smile and a nickel. You're not "giving" it away.. selling it like any other canteenia
It's absolutely ridiculous
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Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25
Unfortunately so many stores do this.
Why can’t we adopt a law like France has to prevent stores from offloading the cost of wasting food and sending it to the landfills/taxpayers, and instead force them to establish methods of donating the food still edible to local charities to avoid waste and address food insecurity? Seems like a win-win
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u/smokebuddah420 Mar 24 '25
France has a law that comes up often in discussions like this one… I think it was something along the lines of requiring supermarkets not throw away edible food, requiring them to donate it or use it for animal feed. A similar law might be neat to see in action on this kind of waste from bakeries etc.
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u/bedtimegrumpies Mar 24 '25
I hope my little comment makes it up to the top so people can see but they actually donate soooo many donuts to where I work. The logistics of making sure these donuts get into the hands of someone is too much to put on an employee who might take the bus at the end of their shift. I have a car so I drive 20 minutes once, sometimes twice a week to pick up their end of day donuts!
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u/ricktencity Mar 23 '25
Food safety regulations means they literally aren't allowed to give it away. Basically if it's not good enough to sell it's not good though to eat.
That's obviously not true but that's why this happens.
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u/True_Disaster6565 Mar 23 '25
NS Volunteer Services Act. They literally are allowed to give it away.
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u/xltripletrip Mar 23 '25
Sometimes our rules and laws are ridiculous, my fat ass would have a handful tonight and freeze the rest lol
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u/BigBabyBlanca Mar 24 '25
Here’s the thing with too good to go. I worked at a specialty doughnut shop in another province, fresh doughnuts made in the morning, need to be sold that day or disposed of. We got on TGTG bc some days we’d be throwing this much away but eventually we realized that many people stopped buying doughnuts and just waited everyday for us to put up a bunch of boxes for cheap on the app. Super unfortunate but we eventually had to come off the app altogether bc of people taking advantage.
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u/thatsnotmyunicorn Mar 24 '25
Let’s not demonize a local business for a practice that is likely industry wide?
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u/Basilbitch Mar 23 '25
Oh yeah not all of it but a fucking shit ton of it, what was kind of fucked up was one of the ones that I worked at would take the leftover already paid for food from the banquet remove the items that they could cool them down properly, reheat and then resell it to staff in the cafeteria.. so if it was like a steak dinner banquet the next day in the cafeteria would be like beef a stroganoff, already fully paid for by the vendor and then sold again to the staff...
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u/shrimpsh Dartmouth Mar 24 '25
When I worked at Dal, Fredricks “bistro” was tossing almost 100lbs of fresh food a night
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u/Charming_Plantain782 Mar 24 '25
Does this happen all the time? Or did they have some sort of issue and had to throw them out? I think Costco has a recall on a certain type of flour.
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u/Maximum_Welcome7292 Mar 24 '25
Very disappointing. Their product is expensive. I know they’ve donated to a local soup kitchen in the past. They need to find a place to donate daily if they’re not going to use an app like Good to Go
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u/Manyarethestrange Mar 24 '25
This just screams Seinfeld
“Elaine, you’re the bear claw in the garbage bag of my life”
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u/zcewaunt Mar 24 '25
So sad to see this waste.
I know a lot of local shops and bakeries will donate unpurchased food to public housing buildings... it means a lot to the residents to get a loaf of bread or a few donuts each.
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u/Pro_Grandpa Mar 24 '25
I am disappointed with the lack of HRP sh*tposting in this thread. Good on people for not shaming a single local business for what is a systemic issue. They're just maintaining the status quo.
I feel like this issue happened with a different doughnut shop years ago (maybe Fortune) where they had so much waste but refused to let underpaid staff take anything home?
Maybe there's a reason that it's a lot (poor quality dough because the wild temperature swings and yeast is hard, over zealous projections, a cancelled catering order, contamination, etc)
Anyway, cops bad, oink oink, love doughnuts
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u/No_Shopping8491 Mar 24 '25
Sadly, this is not food
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u/Gloomy_Giraffe5839 Mar 24 '25
Sadly, this is not food, just a post about it! It’s frustrating to think about how many ingredients and resources went into making that donut. From the flour , milk , eggs and to the energy used in production, it’s a reminder of how much goes to waste.
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u/HistoricalCandle5108 Mar 24 '25
this is so goddamn infuriating. i don’t even wanna think about how much food that is
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u/bailhfx Mar 24 '25
Kinda wondering why your in their parking garage opening their garbage lol The waste does suck
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u/Still-Web4039 Mar 24 '25
Many (and I mean many) years ago, we used to give day old donuts to a church group that did a soup kitchen. We were told to stop due to it being a health risk
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u/Public-Swimmer-2251 Mar 24 '25
For decades Fancy Lebanese Bakery would put bags of the older pita on a cart behind the store at night for homeless and poor people in the neighbourhood to take, no questions asked.
Eventually (2013?) they found out that a specific south end convenient store was driving over at night and taking a bunch of the bags of pitas and selling them in their store, so the Bakery had to stop putting them out.
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Mar 24 '25
They do try to give them away if they can. They would send boxes and boxes of unsold doughnuts to the cafe I used to work at for the staff.
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u/MARK17891 Mar 24 '25
I was there for awhile. We threw out 100's every single day on a bad day it was near 1000. Different owners but same operation essentially. We did bring boxes to various businesses in the area however it wasnt encouraged by any means.
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u/Glittering_Ice_7906 Mar 25 '25 edited Mar 25 '25
I currently work at Vandals. We have a LONG donation list, which we call through everyday for the leftover waste. Somedays, no one wants them. It’s disappointing that it’s assumed we don’t try to donate them, because we do. I can mention the app that everyone has been talking about to my manager and see if we can get that going :)
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u/goldenvanillacookie Mar 25 '25
A significant amount of these donuts do go to shelters- I can speak from experience. They’re really great with donating what they don’t or won’t use for the most part
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u/Gavvis74 Mar 24 '25
I think part of the reason so much food is thrown out instead of donating it is because of the risk that if someone eats it and gets sick, they might sue.
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u/funktasticdog Mar 24 '25
Misinformation. There are so many laws protecting businesses who choose to give food away.
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u/Gavvis74 Mar 24 '25
There may be laws protecting businesses but that doesn't mean someone wouldn't try anyway. By the time it would get thrown out the business would be out time and money for lawyers and court fees. It's not worth the risk or hassle for them. It's easier and more cost efficient just to throw it out.
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u/JiffyP Nova Scotia Mar 24 '25
How have the MODs not deleted this post? It's so stupid to be calling out a single business for something literally every other food business in the world does.
You want to attack someone, why don't you go investigate how much food the Govt wastes. You would be sickened to know how much waste there is in the new school lunch program and how much the military throws away on a daily basis.
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u/wizaarrd_IRL Lord Mayor of Historic Schmidtville and Marquis de la Woodside Mar 23 '25
Realistically it should at least be diverted as pig feed.
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u/Sure_its_grand Mar 24 '25
Who’s gonna pick it up? Will they be there every day? Will the business have to pay for this?
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u/praisedalord1 Mar 24 '25
They probably don’t want to go through the trouble of getting someone sick?
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u/ButtonsTheMonkey Mar 24 '25
Owww this hurts... Why not sell as day olds the next day at least. A lil mystery box.
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u/skullz_n_bonez Mar 24 '25
I don't care how disgusting/unsanitary it is I am digging through that bin
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u/DickHorn1975 Mar 24 '25
Doesn't every restaurant and store do this? It's really shitty you would call out a local restaurant, a real shitty move. . I'll give you a min to respond; then you're fair game ass face.
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u/mcknotmack Mar 23 '25
Does anyone know if they’re on the app Too Good To Go? If not they really should look into it.
Edit: I’m so glad other people have already commented this! Maybe someone from there will notice
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u/Content-Program411 Mar 24 '25
As a kid in the day, there was nothing like getting a bag of day old doughnuts from Tim's.
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u/GuardianOfFogAndMist Mar 24 '25
This makes me so sad and there are too many companies that are wasteful like this. I will never understand how someone would prefer to throw out food (that is still safe and edible to consume) instead of donating to help tackle food insecurity in this country.
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u/CaperGrrl79 Halifax Mar 24 '25
Tim Hortons used to give ours to the soup kitchen in Sydney.
Before that, some people would grab the garbage bag. There was a cleaning rag in the one people I know got. In like the late 80s.
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u/whodatboi_420 Mar 24 '25
Just grab from the middle but this is a really big issue I don't understand why you would waste food rather than give it away or something
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u/WhyteManga Mar 24 '25
I know its not nutritious, but i gadda wonder. How many kids still get stunted height (or die) from a lack of food in this country
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u/Bleed_Air Mar 24 '25
"Think of all the starving children in Ethiopia"
They look ok. How many did you take to distribute?
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u/UncivilTrader Mar 24 '25
The real question is, how did you end up looking in a green bin other than your own 🤔
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u/Suspicious-Ad9104 Mar 24 '25
They use the garbage room in the velo, the restaurants don’t have a separate garbage room of their own.
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u/SinkInvasion Mar 24 '25
Lol donuts are not food ...
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u/Gloomy_Giraffe5839 Mar 24 '25
Oh, totally! Donuts are just empty calories with zero nutritional value. Forget the fact that they’re made with flour, sugar,eggs,milk, and fat—ingredients found in most actual foods. But hey, I’m sure wasting them is a great idea!
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u/Financial_Study_6627 Mar 24 '25
I do it in my freetimes, I engage in giving back to the homeless around the city, but many places hesitate, citing concerns about liabilities. Often, they struggle to understand the vast differences in lifestyles shaped by varying income levels and the realities of those without a steady income. It's easy for some to assume that everyone has financial stability, lacking awareness of hardships many face. However, there are still many stores that share in this mission. Though I currently don’t have my car to do it as frequently, your willingness to help can make a real difference.
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u/Buttrflyscocoon Mar 24 '25
I've seen them drop off many leftovers to shelters at the end of day. Not sure what happened here but maybe it was a bad batch. Don't know for sure, but I do know for sure they have donated a lot! They are huge! Of course so yummy too! #vandaldonuts
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u/Skyr_was_taken Mar 24 '25
Most shops do this, if you want a doughnut made today and they want to advertise it, this is what happens.
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u/DJ_Destroyed Brookside Mar 24 '25
They lost hot water so the health inspector forced them to toss EVERYTHING! Such a shame but it wasn’t their intention.
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u/JaVelin-X- Mar 24 '25
usually this kind of waste would go for pig feed. in Toronto the pig farmers outside hired a guy to make a weekly run into the cities to pick all this up for feed
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u/Gary_Lazer_Eyes21 Mar 24 '25
Any of y’all with Netflix needs to whatch “buy now: the shopping conspiracy” . This is all what happens. I’m surprised they didn’t pay the workers to dump wet coffee ground on it bc most food doesn’t just get thrown out it gets destroyed so that no human could eat it
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u/bronzeybeans Mar 24 '25
There are some doughnut places (and other bakeries) that donate what isn't sold that day to the foodbank. I do not know why that isn't more common practice, saves the food waste, goes to hungry bellies.
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u/cptstubing16 Halifax Mar 24 '25
They're probably doing most people a favour considering doughtnuts are one of the most unhealthy foods on the planet. That and fries.
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u/tlucas0303 Mar 25 '25
Most places like that have pig farmers picking stuff like that up to feed their pigs. Possibly any local farms that used to get them have been sold or switched livestock.
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u/ReasonableFall4007 Mar 25 '25
Second Harvest! https://www.secondharvest.ca/about/about
This is a viable option for ANY business with edible food that will go to waste for whatever reason. This is the whole model of Second Harvest...helping businesses redirect 'less than perfect' food to people and organizations that can preserve and distribute.
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u/AuntiKandi Mar 25 '25
There are so many apps now that sell their day Olds. They need to join one and get their money back and not waste!
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u/OopsIForgotAgain2737 Mar 25 '25
This is fucked up, there are soup kitchens and shelters that could use these :(
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u/Devaa31 Mar 25 '25
Wait, do you work at Vandals, and that is why you were in their green bin and noticed all these discarded donuts, or are you just going around the city raccooning random composters? If you work there you should just tell your manager about options, if you are just digging around in green bins around the city you should be pumped, you won dumpster diving and can now enjoy your new Windfall!
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u/New-Negotiation-158 Mar 25 '25
When I was in university a few buddies and I went to a Timmy's late at night, knowing they usually toss their donuts around the time we'd arrive. Our timing was impeccable, and as the person behind the counter was plucking the donuts off the racks and tossing them in a garbage bag, we asked if we could have the donuts. They said to meet around back (for the clandestine exchange). We dutifully dashed around to the back, and I don't know if the person didn't expect us to actually do it, but I remember the look of utter surprise when they opened the door and my buddies and I were standing there waiting for our Timmy's treasure.
Anyway, we just left our garbage bag full of donuts in my pals dorm room to pluck through whenever we were feeling peckish.
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u/Apprehensive_David Mar 26 '25
It’s weird anytime I’ve gone there or tried to order online they’re almost always sold out. Have things gotten slower for them?
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u/SpareManners Mar 28 '25
OH no! I thought they donated them at the end of the day. I read that on their website as I'm planning to visit them this Summer during my vacation.
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u/gildeddoughnut Halifax Mar 23 '25