Deadline met, sort of

What do you do when you prepare salads for a grocery store but have no croutons available?  Apparently, at one store I visited recently, you tear off pieces of bread and throw them in the salads.  I guess partial credit is deserved; after all, torn-up bread is in the ballpark of croutons.  At least, the store didn't run out of sugar and improvise with sawdust in its cookies.