The salad story ... ...
is just plain stupid on the part of the pub. Nothing like an idiot to upset the regulars (who provide the majority of turnover)


The waste from the bakers however is a different tale. I'm sure I remember a story a few years ago where someone took a leftover prawn sandwich from the bins outside a local supermarket (thrown away because was past it's sell by date), got food poisoning, successfully sued the company. If that is true, and intimately knowing the ridiculous amount of regulation regarding waste that has been imposed on the catering industry, I can understand why the baker would want to make sure that it's waste was not used after it was thrown away / past it's safe use by date or time.
(manwiddicombe is thinking of something witty to add here, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:06, 1 reply)

You surely couldn't have a case for suing someone for becoming ill after eating out of their bin!?
That is an angle I hadn't thought of, but it seems very unlikely...
( ..wil, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:09, closed)

It's true
we have to completely destroy all our waste to make sure no-one tries to claim they had bought it, and it made them ill.

You have to be careful with the bleach thing though, if someone rummages in your bin and gets bleach on them, they can sue you for that too.

Madness.
( Scary Mary The D'oh Fairy, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:17, closed)

aren't there also
laws/regulations for disposing of things like bleach correctly?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:25, closed)

why not massively securely overkill lock the bins?
you've got to remember,allowing scavenging is a step closer to the moral and spiritual collapse of society.
(sniffi the cat /remembers/this was /all fields..., Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:45, closed)

we try to lock our bins...
Someone was caught taking out-of-date meat from our bins, and trying to sell it on and/or claim refunds (after it's been out of refrigeration for 24hours or longer).

But some people just break in anyway. It was getting ridiculous, the amount we were having to spend on new locks and bin repairs.

Of course, until they recently started shredding, there was a risk of confidential data going in the bins as well; so that was another reason to secure them.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 19:56, closed)

It's a mad freakin world,
it really is....

I've learned quite a bit from asking this question, I tell thee!
( ..wil, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 16:35, closed)

Well, that's a bit sad, but I guess it makes a certain sense,
that's the trouble with doing something nice for the general populous, there's always some dodgy bugger who sees an opportunity for perverting it for their own personal gains.

I think we need a more 'You're an adult, take responsibility for your own life' attitude to stop such litigious nonsense.
( ..wil, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:56, closed)

Isn't that what receipts are for?
If you claim you bought it but can't produce a receipt, where's the proof it wasn't thrown away? Burden of proof and all that.
(lolwhites, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 13:35, closed)