Originally Posted by Jaguar (Post 2907649)

Originally Posted by msdivy (Post 2907668)

Nobody can depend on leftovers. Someday it might be a feast and on others, they have to go hungry. Secondly, hotels find that they have leftovers after the eating hours, say at 3PM for lunch & 11PM for dinner. So its difficult for anybody to depend on leftovers.

Food wastage in hotels is actually the top of the pyramid.
In the middle, vegetable markets waste much more. They discard everything customers won't buy.
At the bottom are the farmers, who throw everything away that is not of right shape & color.

Originally Posted by amitoj (Post 2907681)

Eh. The first part of article seems to be India specific (the problem statement part) but the second part seems to be more Western lifestyle specific.

Let me explain. Specially in US, with stores like Costco etc, where you save some money by buying in bulk, people do tend to store a lot more perishable items than they can consume. Hence some part of it goes to waste. I am not sure how widespread the consumer base is of stores like Metro and Big Bazaar but last i checked, majority of folks in India buy perishable items for maximum a week, and all of it gets consumed.

But having said that, it does not mean we dont waste food. Just go to any IT company's cafeteria where you have thali system. I say IT because thats what my experience is limited to. You'll see two people sharing a thali to save money and then throw half of the food into waste.

But the food wastage at individual level is nothing compared to the wastage at the systemic level. See this article:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...in-going-waste

From the article:


Still not a case for FDI in retail that will overhaul and add to the existing storage facilities??

Originally Posted by esteem_lover (Post 2910076)

That can in no way justify the cooked food waste that goes into the bin rather than to a hungry fellow being who is just living or dying next door.