Food wasted due to corona-economy

Fresh food, much of which was being grown for cruise ships and restaurants, is being dumped and plowed under because of decreased demand during stay-at-home times.

This article suggests the government should be doing more (or should have been) to buy up the food and distribute it to struggling households and food banks.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/26/food-banks-coronavirus-agriculture-usda-207215

But we might ask another question not raised in the article, which is how much less people waste food at home than when restaurants (including those on cruise ships, hotels, theme parks, etc.) are running full steam to prepare lots of ready-made food for customers whose time is precious and who thus don't want to sit around waiting for meals to be prepared on demand?

When you go out to eat, you might not be wasting food directly, but the businesses competing for your spending are preparing a lot of diverse options to attract customers, and strict regulations require them to remove prepared food from shelves after a certain period of time, usually a couple hours. As a result, many restaurants are often preparing a lot more food than they actually sell, and then throwing it away after the lunch rush or dinner rush has passed.

So could it be that all this food going to waste at farms is the same food that would have gone to waste at restaurants if it has been delivered and prepared in response to high daily demand? If so, then instead of seeing food being wasted that would have been wasted anyway in the absence of people staying at home more, we should see the fuel and energy that's not being wasted to deliver and prepare all that food before throwing it away at the end of its freshness time-window.

There may be a case to be made for finding ways to ensure needy people have access to food, including fresh food; and it is also probably the case that more people would buy more healthy food if the price of fresh healthy food was more affordable, but it may be hasty to assume that Federal food buying programs are the solution, because subsidizing food demand keeps prices artificially high, which stimulates farmers to produce abundantly, but doing so also means more waste in terms of fuel/energy, ecological land/resources, and all the other human time/labor that goes into the food supply chain that renders lots of choice and convenience by sacrificing lots of food once its freshness-time is up.