Yahoo – AFP,
24 March 2016
Washington (AFP) - Coffee chain Starbucks is going to donate unsold meals, sandwiches and salads to hungry and needy people in the United States rather than throw them out.
"In the first year alone, Starbucks FoodShare will be able to provide nearly five million meals to individuals and families in need (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad) |
Washington (AFP) - Coffee chain Starbucks is going to donate unsold meals, sandwiches and salads to hungry and needy people in the United States rather than throw them out.
The company
announced to a shareholders meeting Wednesday that it is joining a US national
program, Feeding America, to help needy people by donating rather than tossing
out each evening the still-edible prepared meals it sells.
It said
that it aims to donate leftover ready-to-eat meals from all of its 7,600
outlets in the United States within the next five years.
"In
the first year alone, Starbucks FoodShare will be able to provide nearly five
million meals to individuals and families in need of nourishing food," the
company said.
By 2021 the
number could be 50 million meals a year.
The
challenge, it said, is to ensure that salads, sandwiches and other refrigerated
meals can still be consumed safely even if they are past the expiration dates
on their labels.
Feeding
America and Food Donation Connection, another group Starbucks is partnering
with, have been working to convince restaurants, cafeterias and markets to
donate leftover food to help poor Americans, rather than see good food end up
in garbage dumps.
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