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Food used on shows

haileysgrandma — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:02:03 GMT

I've seen this question posted many times but never seen an answer from the QVC staff.The amount of food exposed, handled and cooked is huge. What happens to that food?

Re: Food used on shows

Kachina624 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:13:38 GMT

This board is for customers only. QVC staff is not allowed to post here so you'll just have to use your common sense about the food disposition. There have been plenty of ideas as to what happens to it.

Re: Food used on shows

ChillyTulip — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:31:00 GMT

I'm sure the majority is thrown out. Who is going to eat food that has been touched and torn apart by the hosts and guests hands?? Soooo gross.

Re: Food used on shows

Love my grandkids — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:33:57 GMT

@haileysgrandma Q employees are not allowed to post here. We don't know what happens to the food.

Re: Food used on shows

ellaphant — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:39:46 GMT

After sitting under hot lights...ewww. Tossed I hope.

Re: Food used on shows

GenXmuse — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:58:38 GMT

Maybe they take some home with them?

Re: Food used on shows

Carmie — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:12:09 GMT

If you want a shock, check out the dumpsters at the grocery stores.

The dumpsters are full of meat too expensive for people to afford....like T bones and expensive seafood as well as produce, dairy, bakery and seasonal items.

The employees are not allowed to take it home and it isn't donated.

America wastes a lot of good food while many people go hungry.

Re: Food used on shows

simplyfriends — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:38:53 GMT

@GenXmuse wrote:
Maybe they take some home with them?

I know they get samples to try before the presentations and I've seen them give some of the food to the crew to eat after they present it.

I would not want to host those food shows - eating all that highly processed, very salty, preservative laden food.

Re: Food used on shows

Desertdi — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:09:27 GMT

There are State, County, and Local LAWS regarding the disposal of food in establishments...and (at least in my state) there are INSPECTORS who enforce those laws.

And...if you wonder about hotels....as a back office worker, I was not even allowed to reheat a guest's restaurant doggie bags, because I did not have a State Food Handler's Permit.

Re: Food used on shows

Danky2 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:09:29 GMT

They probably throw it out but what I don't understand is why they have so much of it.......not one chicken sandwich, 20 of them and then lined against the wall were what you got with auto delivery ......plus all the other ways to make chicken.

Re: Food used on shows

kate2357 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:14:33 GMT

I have a close friend who is an executive for a major food retailer. I have tagged along as her guest to a few food shows and asked her about food waste and the amount of food that seemed to go to waste.

At stores, many packaged perishable items, as well as dry goods, are given to food banks. They cannot give fresh, unpackaged product away, it must be thrown out. The exception is produce items...like potatoes, onions, etc.

At food shows they build big displays as marketing and to show products to best advantage. Any item deemed edible is given to local food banks. In some places, the nonedible food is sent for composting.

Employees are not allowed food because the fear is employees would create too much food as an excuse/reason to help themselves.

Re: Food used on shows

Spacrazy — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:37:22 GMT

@Carmie Sadly, I know this to be true.

Re: Food used on shows

Sooner — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:44:14 GMT

I have had experience with food that is used for photos and display purposes. It has oil, varnish and anything else on it to make it look good. It is handled with no thought of sanitation or bacteria growth.

At the volume of business QVC does it is a drop in the bucket of expenses and every business has expenses and waste.

Re: Food used on shows

RespectLife — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:52:18 GMT

@haileysgrandma wrote:
I've seen this question posted many times but never seen an answer from the QVC staff.The amount of food exposed, handled and cooked is huge. What happens to that food?

@haileysgrandma

And you won't see an answer from QVC....

As mentioned, QVC staff don't read these boards.

Re: Food used on shows

RespectLife — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:55:38 GMT

@Carmie wrote:
If you want a shock, check out the dumpsters at the grocery stores.
The dumpsters are full of meat too expensive for people to afford....like T bones and expensive seafood as well as produce, dairy, bakery and seasonal items.

The employees are not allowed to take it home and it isn't donated.

America wastes a lot of good food while many people go hungry.

Not always true....we have tons of restaurants and grocery chains here that DO donate the food...to the City Mission, St. Lukes Mission of Mercy, Women's Shelters (Compass House, Famly Promise, Food pantries AND churches.

Obviously can't if it is near expiration but whatever they can, they DO!

Re: Food used on shows

They CallMe MRWILKES — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:12:40 GMT

In NYC the Food Bank and City Harvest, among others, collect food from restaurants, grocery stores and corporate cafeterias. The food retailer Prete a Manger donates its unsold food at the close of business each day.

I see their collection trucks daily.

What they can't take is anything that was at an open buffet or salad bar....otherwise, everything is welcomed.

Re: Food used on shows

Sunshine Kate — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:23:31 GMT

This topic about QVC food has been discussed many times.

I've heard on air that the food is given to QVC employees that are there at the time. It is gobbled up and much appreciated.