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If the person who lost everything is "from the neighborhood", then they will be judged and questioned and possibly shamed by everyone else in the restaurant. Not just the owner. This is the overwhelming problem with poverty and feeding the hungry. Are these the same people who are wondering whether people "on food stamps" will buy "seafood and steak"? What will they then think of restaurant food? What if the same person comes in two days in a row? Will questions be asked then? Maybe it's better to discreetly rustle around in the garbage that second day in order to get some food - just to avoid that judgment from people who have never been in that position.

What's with the peanut butter sandwich and cup of water? Doesn't the restaurant serve anything better than that? The leftovers in the dumpster are likely better quality.

named PB Jams. So I would assume they are a specialty shop serving all sorts of sandwiches based on jams and peanut butter.

never been in the position to need to visit a dumpster for dinner. In that situation even a cup of CLEAN water is a blessing. I hope you never need to find out first hand what struggling to live is all about.

It seems from your post that you have been in that situation. If I'm reading this right, hope that is no longer the case.

in 2000-02. I am good now, thanks for your concern.

Glad you're here! Maybe some were expecting free prime rib? I think this is a lovely gesture. And an instructive one, too. How many people realize how many of their brothers and sisters ARE digging through trash to find something to eat? How many people REALLY get this? How many? Probably not a lot. Because we turn our gaze away. We don't see it because it's out back behind the building. We don't see it because it's in the dark, at night after hours. And maybe we need to see it a little more. And we'd probably be shocked to know how much of it is not downtown in Skid Row or in "that" part of town. It's RIGHT IN OUR MIDST.

Seems to me it strikes as one of those "first you have to admit you have a problem" things. And it's hard to admit something exists if you can't, or don't, see it. Or accept it. Or acknowledge it. Or even realize it exists. That whole "seeing is believing" thing. The "Show Me" thing. One reason why that jerk-ass with the snowball, senator inhofe, can be so damaging. See snowball. Sneer at climate change. For the low-info voters, no wonder that's an easy sell. 'Cause they don't look, see, notice, realize, have dots connected for them.

When helping homeless or starving people at your place of business, it is best to serve them more modest and "sustaining" fare rather than your top menu items. The problem is that once word gets out that you're serving homeless/starving people full servings of you regular menu items, more and more of these poor folks show up at the door looking for a handout.

It quickly becomes overwhelming. The cost of the food you're giving out is no longer "in the noise" of your cash flow - you begin to feel it on your bottom line. The people seeking a meal begin to scare off your customers, and they even begin to adversely impact adjacent businesses, drawing complaints and even police response.

We still regularly help these poor people as they are desperate and need some real human compassion. But we have to do it in a measured way that doesn't adversely affect our business.

When helping homeless or starving people at your place of business, it is best to serve them more modest and "sustaining" fare rather than your top menu items. The problem is that once word gets out that you're serving homeless/starving people full servings of you regular menu items, more and more of these poor folks show up at the door looking for a handout.

It quickly becomes overwhelming. The cost of the food you're giving out is no longer "in the noise" of your cash flow - you begin to feel it on your bottom line. The people seeking a meal begin to scare off your customers, and they even begin to adversely impact adjacent businesses, drawing complaints and even police response.

We still regularly help these poor people as they are desperate and need some real human compassion. But we have to do it in a measured way that doesn't adversely affect our business.

P.B. Jams
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