It’s no secret that America has a food waste problem; about 40% of food produced, processed, and transported in America ultimately winds up in landfills. That means 119 billion pounds of food for a total value of around $408 billion — those are not small numbers. And while much of that comes from grocery stores or American homes, some, inevitably, comes from restaurants. Those restaurants need to make money, so donating food seems like it would incur extra costs for them.

But Olive Garden locations actually do take care not to simply let all their uneaten food go to waste. Darden Restaurants, the parent company of Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and the Capital Grille, has partnered with a non-profit organization called Feeding America for over a decade to make sure their unused food gets to local food banks. Darden also has had their own Harvest food donation program since 2003, which gets unserved food to local non-profits.