After taking a partime job for a local events and catering service on friday and saturday. The task on friday was a waitering job for a church dinner event with an expected 350 persons. But it turned out not all came for the dinner organized by the church organizers. And this may not come as a surprise to many because it seems now a days more and more people do not go to church anymore. And I, for one is among the many. They are simply not interested.
With the quantity of food prepared one would ask what to do with the leftovers. And this to me is a moral quandary. Specially now a days that there are people who work hard just to have food on the table. And taking into consideration with the rising cost of food. With this in mind, food is something not to be wasted.
Looking at the faces of the organizers, I saw in their eyes that they too came unprepared. No spare plastic bags for take out or styro packs to put excess food. What's even more shocking is the fact that the headwaiter instructed us to throw the rest of the food away, all of it including those still in untouched. I didn't know what to think then. I tried to rationalize that the instruction given has a good excuse. But to no avail, there's no good reason to throw good food away unless it is spoiled. Its just sad to think that food, good enough to eat is maliciously thrown in the garbage bin. At that point, I said to myself " see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil" only God knows what we did.
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