I remember heading to a Korean buffet chain not far from where I live (in my country), in which they mainly cater Korean & some Japanese food (it has multiple branches) but the catch is that they’re charging customers the equivalent of 10 USD per take out container for food wastage if they want to take left overs (they’ve dealt with food deliberately being left uneaten before).
You ever work retail? That’ll kill all hopes in humanity, from just about every angle.
I was a stocker for JCPenney for about a month (that’s all I could take), which meant I was up at 4 in the goddamn morning to go to my local mall and rip open boxes of clothes and other bullshit, then put them on the shelves and racks before the store opened. Don’t ask me why we couldn’t do it at the end of the night after close, because my answer would be “because corporate thinks ‘fuck you’”.
Anyway, tearing open pallets of boxes full of clothes, each individually wrapped in plastic and some with those paper sheet inserts, all for literally every bit of the packaging to end up in the trash. As far as I remember there were literally no recycle bins except for outside the mall. And every supervisor is on your ass constantly, making you rush to get things out there before the store opens, telling you to shove more shit onto the racks, when there’s literally no room anywhere for anything because people just aren’t buying anything.