i was just talking about this! starbucks canada does a pastry case with pictures and i feel like thats a much better way to showcase the different items without wasting so much product! my store has a high volume of unhoused customers and it’s heartbreaking to think that the food we throw out could have been someones meal.

I want 3d printed food. It'd be a HUGE cost up front, but would eventually save a lot compared to throwing out one of each item, every day, per store.

The corporate argument is that people buy less food if there isn't a physical representation, but I frankly don't see the point when they're pushing drive thru so hard.

We had such a bad problem with flies at our store we stopped filling it, then we got rid of it completely. Now it's our handoff plane.

I work at a store without a pastry case and I honestly miss having one. Almost every customer asks why we don’t have one and / or assumes we don’t serve food so it’s a little frustrating. I do like not having to clean it though!

Every time I set up the pastry case, my soul dies a little more. It's so wasteful 😭

I don’t even know why we have a pastry case. Not like we bake shit like other bakeries

Fake food could look so real and it’s much less wasteful… not to mention the pest problem wouldn’t be nearly as bad 😪

Our store is only a year old and they didn’t put in a pastry case. Sounds like a real PITA so I’m not at all sorry, even though we probably sell a lot less food, honestly.

Especially since we never have enough labor hours to be fully staffed but we have enough money to throw out everything in the pastry case every night. I wonder how much money all of that adds up to