The self-serve salad bar at the grocery store seems like a healthy and convenient option for a quick lunch. However, that convenience comes at a very high price. When you take your carefully crafted container to the checkout to be weighed, you are often hit with a shocking total. The price per pound for the salad bar can be two or three times higher than the price of the produce in the regular aisles. This is not an accident. It is the result of the high labor and food waste costs that are built into the salad bar’s business model.
