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UK Restaurant is Letting People Pay-as-They-Can While Rescuing Tons of Food
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<blockquote data-quote="Michie" data-source="post: 77611021" data-attributes="member: 628"><p>A restaurant in England has been able to employ 22 full and part-time staff serving food rescued from landfills to people on a “pay-as-you-can” basis.</p><p></p><p>This fantastic achievement is rooted in two significant challenges faced by the UK: price inflation has increased the average cost of food by a quarter, and as many as 10 million Brits, Scots, and N. Irish are malnourished.</p><p></p><p>The Long Table’s remarkable business model is rooted in conscience and ethics as much as anything they put on the menu.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/06/pay-as-you-can-uk-restaurant-prioritise-people-and-planet?CMP=upside_email" target="_blank"> The Guardian reports</a> that 6.4 million tons of food goes to waste in the country every year, amounting to quite a hefty bill of carbon emissions from rotting food and transportation to move it around.</p><p></p><p>Continued below.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/uk-restaurant-is-letting-people-pay-as-they-can-while-rescuing-tons-of-food/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michie, post: 77611021, member: 628"] A restaurant in England has been able to employ 22 full and part-time staff serving food rescued from landfills to people on a “pay-as-you-can” basis. This fantastic achievement is rooted in two significant challenges faced by the UK: price inflation has increased the average cost of food by a quarter, and as many as 10 million Brits, Scots, and N. Irish are malnourished. The Long Table’s remarkable business model is rooted in conscience and ethics as much as anything they put on the menu.[URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/06/pay-as-you-can-uk-restaurant-prioritise-people-and-planet?CMP=upside_email'] The Guardian reports[/URL] that 6.4 million tons of food goes to waste in the country every year, amounting to quite a hefty bill of carbon emissions from rotting food and transportation to move it around. Continued below. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/uk-restaurant-is-letting-people-pay-as-they-can-while-rescuing-tons-of-food/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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