How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful

gib444

https://archive.is/eRiYf

alexfoo

https://archive.is/eRiYf

gib444

If hotels do a virtual buffet and other nonsense I'll just opt out and grab some bits from a local supermarket, which I imagine is what they really would like - to eliminate breakfast entirely. Just like making room service opt in - they can claim it's available but obviously a lot of people just don't bother because they pick up on the signal from the hotel that they don't want to do it Personally I've never seen wasteful people at breakfast buffets in the UK. Greedy yes but not plates of unfinished food. It's also good to remember how much breakfast regularly costs now. £15-20 is quite common at mid range places - £10 of yesteryear is exceedingly rare

baal80spam

> BREAKFAST IS THE most important meal of the day First sentence of the article and already an error.

ggm

Nudge theory. Applied to my favourite meal of the day. Gaaah. I think I'll simply fill two plates now. Or maybe 3.

Fizz43

Toast, eggs, sausages, tomato, mushrooms and most of the other things are dirt cheap. Bacons a bit more expensive but I doubt that ever has any left over.

contingencies

Here's an idea: provide better food. That way people won't want to leave it on the plate.

sam_lowry_

Staying in hotels is wasteful, to start with. Buen Camino.

ssl-3

This article is dogshit. The implied problem: People waste too much food at hotel breakfast buffets. The work: Some people made a model (that itself is devoid of actual hotels, food, and people altogether, as well lacking validation) that let them wiggle some parameters and see if waste changed in that simulation. The proposed solution: There isn't one. It's just dogshit. We can learn roughly as much about how consumption and waste and profitability work in the real world by playing Roller Coaster Tycoon.

finaard

> Or, maybe, don’t: when people do, they take much more than they eat. Compared with ordering from the menu, all-you-can-eat breakfasts waste more food—up to twice as much, according to one study. Is that a cultural thing? We have pretty much zero food waste on any buffet as you can easily only take what you actually want to eat. It's just basic good education to be considerate with resources, especially food resources - and I rarely see people taking more than they actually eat, so it's not just an "our family" thing. If you do throw away a lot of foot on a buffet you're just an inconsiderate asshole - and if a restaurant location has significant food waste from that they should just start charging for leftovers.

lordgrenville

I was surprised that this article is about food wasted by people not finishing their plates. Would have guessed that a lot of the unserved food is discarded (sure, some of it can be served at tomorrow's breakfast, but only within limits), and that this is much more significant.

chr15m

> computer model Lol, what a ridiculous study.

Simulacra

I've noticed that the cheaper the hotel, the more free things they give you. Such as breakfast buffets. Rather than a buffet, they could give out a meal ticket. If you want extras, you can pay a small fee for those, meant to cover the cost of the food more than any profit motive. Or is it really more profitable to just throw away the food?