Before I left I had to dump all the food from the pastry case and there was a family right in front of it that seen me dumping the food and had some wtf faces. And the dad asked “Do y’all really just throw away the food like that?!?!?” to which I was had to be very honest with him and tell him that we do even though we don’t like to do it. I told him how in Canada they have cardboard pictures of the food and never have to do this or worry about flies. He told me that he always assumed we had plastic models. I had set aside everything I was doing (mostly cause there wasn’t much to do) and told him about the bs of Starbucks wasting food. I told him that no matter how many employee surveys we baristas fill out that they won’t stop unless a customer like him self were to complain about it and there would be a much higher chance of them actually listening to them rather than us since they only care how they look to the customers. I told him that they only started the food share program because they were getting a bad rep thanks to people finding out how much food was being thrown out. I wanted to tell him about all the other bs but needed to finish what I was doing so I could leave. I honestly can’t believe they even waste food since if they were to switch to plastic models or cardboard pics they would be saving so much money every year.