Not me pulling 90 butter croissants to make room for Chicken Maples that were recalled within 12 hours 🫠

This happens at my store every damn time. There’s no room for them to give us another freezer either. So. Much. Waste.

Opposite is here with us, we’re being shorted it feels like every time and we sell out things in hours :( it feels like we have nothing

As I always say, TAKE IT ALL HOME AND DISTRIBUTE DOOR TO DOOR TO NEIGHBORS!! No need to waste it, but giving out free food is a great conversation starter for neighbors you don’t know and it makes other people happy

Automatic ordering got us ssvs like 🥴

My store has been refreezing pastries that we can’t hold in the freezer. When I’ve pointed out that I thought it was a food safety violation, another SSV, the ASM and the SM all said it wasn’t because the pastries are shelf stable.

I’m assuming, since so many of you are pulling in excess due to no room in the freezer, that it is in fact not policy/okay to refreeze pastries.
Does anyone know where I can find the resource on this?

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your manager should definitely see if any other stores in the district have room. all the food we waste makes me so sad :/

Your SSVs should be pulling less if they know that there’s *consistently* this much waste. Clearly the IMS for your store isn’t using correct data.

If it were that much *consistently*, you should probably do daily ad-hoc counts on your food and mark out all of that as waste in your IMS to give your system better datapoints to use. Clearly it’s not using accurate sales/inventory info.

this is crazy to see coming from a store doing 2.4k$ on a busy day. do they not adjust par??

Do a 50-70%off sales just get it out of the store

Literally the same thing has been happening at my store for weeks. Being sent too much food for us to fit in the freezers even with near daily ad hoc counts. Throwing out hundreds of dollars of product multiple times a week. :/

Been there done that :D

I would pull all Madeline’s out since they’re good for a month and keep them on display same for marshmallow dream bars since they’re good for two weeks.
Take out a box of each egg bite since they’re good for a week and fast sellers.

High selling items take out a box at a time too maybe? Banana bread, butter croissants.

I always try to keep boxes broken down for space too

Get plastic bins where you can dump food in but keep in in the freezer and just pull from that to take up less space.

And tell your sm to do their job and call balford everyday to pause the ordering

oh god ive had the last few days off so idk how bad it is at my store right now (just how I was scheduled) but when the chicken sandwiches and c&c cakepops dropped we literally had to give away half of the cakepops that were pulled because they apparently told us to pull THREE cases even tho we're one of the drive thru only stores? my ssv didnt even pull all three cases, she only pulled two and that was still waaaaay too many.

and last time I restocked our warming fridge midshift we had basically gone thru all the sandwiches that were already in there except for the chicken sandwiches lol, and there were soooo many left in the back fridge too. thank god tho considering what happened with those sandwiches.

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Same!!! What is up with our automated ordering system?!

This is crazy.

It does not matter, should not matter to you personally. As long as they are making money from the way they are having you do things, they are going to continue to ask you to do it that way. Yes it is stupid, but being stupid isn't going to stop it. Put it out of your mind.