Ever wonder what happens to all of the pastries at Starbucks at the end of the night? Up until 2010 Starbucks would just throw all of the pastries out. As an employee of Starbucks for two years, I can safely say that is a lot of food that gets wasted. So Starbucks decided to enact a plan to set up every local Starbucks, including the one I worked at in Fairfax, with a local church to donate all of the leftover pastries too. This allows the churches to give the pastries to homeless and hungry people that come to the church looking for food.
The Starbucks I spoke with told me that every night when they close they package up all of the pastries into large green plastic tubs, and then the next morning church employees come by to pick up the numerous tubs of pastries. They are given out in the morning and throughout the day to the homeless and hungry. According to my friend Tim they just have so much food that would go to waste, they decided that had to do something about it.
Starbucks has decided to make it easier for their stores to donate all of their pastries by collaborating with a company called Food Donation Connection. By collaborating with Food Donation Connection, Starbucks is able to increase the number of stores that can donate food, and stop all of the waste. It also makes it easier for the individual Starbucks stores to arrange pick-ups with the churches.
When I talked to my friend Tim that works at a Fairfax Starbucks he said “I am not sure of the exact church that we donate to every week because sometimes it changes depending on needs”.
Upon further research I learned that the Starbucks I used to work at donates a majority to their pastries to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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