Fun fact, 30-40% of the food in our supply chain is wasted. So, we're actually not too far from that. Sure, the meals aren't directly wasted by the company and rather through the supply chain. But, the waste is still there and is surprisingly high IMO.

Source: https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs

And doing this for months. Without noticing.

Honestly this isn’t ultimately engineerings fault. This is a SaaS business Someone in their company is responsible for the COGS KPI. For that person to either not notice an increase in COGS, or to not be aggressively incentivizing engineering to reduce COGS, is giant red flag.

Perhaps more like ordering 100 lunches for your 100 employees and forgetting that 20 of them moved to night shift?