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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2019 8:48:30 GMT -5
Yuck! Study Says 28 Percent Of Delivery Drivers Taste Your Food. Nasty Habit !!!Get the INFO here: tinyurl.com/yx8hotlm
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2019 8:50:43 GMT -5
More people than ever are turning to food delivery services and apps like UberEats, Grubhub, DoorDash and Postmate, the study showed. The average person has two food delivery apps and uses them three times per month.
85 percent of 1,518 customers surveyed said they’d be less worried about their food deliveries if the restaurant they ordered from would use tamper-proof packaging, according to the study.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2019 11:52:42 GMT -5
Now, The old formal way of the food delivery from your known Restaurant/Pizzeria/ with their paid employees does not FIT this Mold of Todays Food Movers with your Smart Devices that I am yet to USE.
To this day I will continue to order Chinese Food from a local place, where the Kid that delivers the goods is Dominican and known to us for a few years, he shows up with the paper bags all stappled, and never a worry to us that he would even think of meddling with the food.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Aug 1, 2019 19:17:47 GMT -5
Now, The old formal way of the food delivery from your known Restaurant/Pizzeria/ with their paid employees does not FIT this Mold of Todays Food Movers with your Smart Devices that I am yet to USE. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 6:51:03 GMT -5
Yep, To this day I order only from places that have THEIR OWN employees delivering the food. I never did and now, never will TRUST those services mentioned in the article
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2019 10:43:28 GMT -5
Food Delivery Services NOT TO BE TRUSTED !!!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2019 7:55:01 GMT -5
Those home-delivered meal kits are greener than you thought
April 22, 2019.
Meal kit services, which deliver a box of pre-portioned ingredients and a chef-selected recipe to your door, are hugely popular but get a bad environmental rap due to perceived packaging waste.
But a new study from University of Michigan researchers found that meal kits have a much lower overall carbon footprint than the same meals purchased at a grocery store, despite having more packaging.
Average greenhouse gas emissions were one-third lower for meal kit dinners than the store-bought meals when every step in the process -- from the farm to the landfill -- was considered, according to the study.
The main reason? Pre-portioned ingredients and a streamlined supply chain lower the overall food loss and waste for meal kits compared to store-bought meals.
"Meal kits are designed for minimal food waste," said Shelie Miller of the U-M Center for Sustainable Systems in the School for Environment and Sustainability, senior author of the study scheduled for publication April 22 in the journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling. The first author is U-M doctoral student Brent Heard.
"So, while the packaging is typically worse for meal kits, it's not the packaging that matters most," Miller said. "It's food waste and transportation logistics that cause the most important differences in the environmental impacts of these two delivery mechanisms."
Since Blue Apron, HelloFresh and Plated entered the U.S. market in 2012, dozens of other companies have started selling meal kits that shoppers can order online and cook at home. Refrigeration packs in the boxes keep ingredients cold.
Annual U.S. meal kit sales reached an estimated $3.1 billion in 2018 with a growth rate of nearly 22 percent, according to the Packaged Facts research firm. In a 2018 Nielsen survey, 9 percent of U.S. consumers surveyed said they had purchased a meal kit, while 25 percent of respondents said they would consider trying a meal kit in the next six months.
Despite the popularity of meal kits, their environmental impacts are understudied, according to the U-M researchers. The new study assesses relative greenhouse gas emissions of meal kits compared with grocery store meals.
The recipes for five two-person meals -- salmon, cheeseburger, chicken, pasta and salad -- were sourced and prepared from both a meal kit service and a grocery store. Meal kits were purchased from Blue Apron.
Greenhouse gas emissions were estimated for every major step in the lifetime of the food ingredients and the packaging: agricultural production, packaging production, distribution, supply chain losses, consumption and waste generation.
This type of cradle-to-grave impacts study is called a comparative life-cycle assessment. Greenhouse gas estimates, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per meal (CO2e/meal) were based on values found in previously published studies.
The U-M study found that the emissions tied to the average grocery store meal were 2 kilograms CO2e/meal higher than an equivalent meal kit. The average emissions were calculated to be 6.1 kg CO2e/meal for a meal kit and 8.1 kg CO2e/meal for a grocery store meal, a 33% difference.
Median grocery meal emissions exceeded the median meal kit emissions for four of the five meal types: salmon, chicken, pasta and salad.
Emissions differences between meal kits and store-bought meals were influenced by three main factors: food waste, packaging and the supply-chain structure, which includes transportation logistics.
Emissions tied to household food waste from grocery meals exceeded those for meal kits for all five meals. The difference was attributed to meal kits pre-portioning ingredients, leaving fewer ingredients that are later wasted.
Generally speaking, meal kits contain large amounts of packaging but less food per meal due to pre-portioning. Grocery meals have less packaging per meal, but larger quantities of food must be purchased, leading to higher household food waste.
"We took a close look at the tradeoff between increased packaging and decreased food waste with meal kits, and our results are likely to be a surprise to many, since meal kits tend to get a bad environmental rap due to their packaging," said Miller, associate professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability and director of the U-M Program in the Environment.
"Even though it may seem like that pile of cardboard generated from a Blue Apron or Hello Fresh subscription is incredibly bad for the environment, that extra chicken breast bought from the grocery store that gets freezer-burned and finally gets thrown out is much worse, because of all the energy and materials that had to go into producing that chicken breast in the first place," Miller said.
Meal kits and grocery meals also exhibit radically different supply chain structures that influence their greenhouse gas emissions.
By skipping brick-and-mortar retailing altogether, the direct-to-consumer meal kit model avoids the food losses that commonly occur in grocery stores, resulting in large emissions savings. For example, grocery stores overstock food items due to the difficulty in predicting customer demand, and they remove blemished or unappealing foods that may not appeal to shoppers.
Meal kits also displayed emissions savings in what's called last-mile transportation -- the final leg of the journey that gets food into the consumer's home.
Meal kits rely on delivery trucks. Since each meal kit is just one of many packages delivered on a truck route, it is associated with a small fraction of the total vehicle emissions. Grocery store meals, in contrast, typically require a personal vehicle trip to the store and back.
In the U-M study, last-mile emissions accounted for 11 percent of the average grocery meal emissions compared to 4 percent for meal kit dinners.
"The way consumers purchase and receive food is undergoing substantial transformation, and meal kits are likely to be part of it in some way," said Heard, who conducted the research for his doctoral dissertation at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability.
"In order to minimize overall impacts of the food system, there is a need to continue to reduce food loss and waste, while also creating advances in transportation logistics and packaging to reduce last-mile emissions and material use."
In the study, the largest emissions source, for both meal kits and grocery store meals, was food production: 59 percent of meal kit emissions and 47 percent of grocery meal emissions were tied to agricultural production. Meals with the largest environmental impact either contained red meat or were associated with large amounts of wasted food.
The other authors of the Resources, Conservation and Recycling paper are U-M undergraduates Mayur Bandekar of the Program in the Environment and Benjamin Vassar of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
The study is titled "Comparison of Life Cycle Environmental Impacts from Meal Kits and Grocery Store Meals." While Blue Apron employees were consulted for the study, no funding was provided by the company.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 10:40:51 GMT -5
No way that I will EVER use those independent Food delivery services for US
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2019 13:09:10 GMT -5
We had Chinese Food Lunch today, and I trust their delivery Guy we have know for a while, buy I Picked up the Order !!!
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Post by markjames on Sept 28, 2019 12:14:40 GMT -5
One of my cousins, an undisciplined food addict has worked as a delivery driver for numerous restaurants on and off for most of their life.
They can't resist from sampling some of the food.
They have their own stapler and carry extra menus to re-staple to the paper bags and/or menu when the restaurants staple the bags/menus.
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Post by markjames on Sept 28, 2019 12:17:47 GMT -5
So one of my restaurant customers owns their own delivery vehicles and installed cameras in the vehicles.
One of the cameras captured one of their female drivers picking her nose, eating it (more than once) then sticking her unwashed hand into a customer's order, then eating some of their garlic knots and cheesy bread.
Another hit the brakes spilling a customer's order on the floor, picked it up, brushed off the dirt and delivered it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 8:38:20 GMT -5
Sick people out there, and of course also work in Kitchens where many DO as they please without getting caught.
Security Cameras are the BEST for getting them FIRED on the Spot !!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2019 16:33:45 GMT -5
NO problems here .... The only food that everu so ofter gets deleivered here it's from a local Chinese Joint and the Kid that delivers the food we have nown for years, all comes in sealed
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