The image of dumpster diving for food is probably worse than the reality. Imagine whole piles of bread and other food still in wrappers and maybe even cans. I don't think our friend here is talking about picking cigarette butts out of mashed potatoes.

When I was a teen working at a burger/pizza resturaunt, I found a homeless guy picking through our trash for food. I told him to come back the next day too. From that time forward, we kept all the clean, good food that would normally have gone into the trash separate and we put it in a special spot for him - all tidy in bags in a special box. This was stuff like burgers that sat under the heat lamp for more than 10 minutes or pizza that had onions and the customer complained "I didn't want onions, nya nya nya"; stuff like that.

We would have done more, but the boss man was not so sympathetic.