I worked for a grocery store chain in Houston and you would not belive the food that was trown away,Whole cooked chickens sandwitches and deli stuff. In the dumpster it went. When I asked about donating it it homeless shelter I was told it had been at keeped at the hot temp for the maxamum time allotted and if they gave it away they could be sued if someone got sick. When the homeless people found out about it and tryed to retrve it they built a huge fence around the bins. That made me so sad and 25 years latter it still bothers me