Food Waste Focus

We recently ran across an article in Healthcare Design magazine titled: “Where does your facility fall on the greening spectrum?” Although this article focused on healthcare (regulated medical waste, preferred purchasing, etc.), they spoke about a Practice Greenhealth study and their efforts to break ‘greening’ down into specific categories.  By doing this it helps the [...]

LeanPath coaches speak with clients on a regular basis.  Often we learn new information that can help others reduce waste and we like to share those Hints and Tips with you.  When reviewing data with clients often we see spikes in pre-consumer waste that are explained by: “sunny day”, “snow day”, “ice storm”, etc. Keeping an eye on the atmosphere can help you [...]

We know about big food holidays – Christmas, Easter, Passover, Ramadan (fried honey donuts!).  We know about other holidays that include a particular type of food in their celebrations like St. Valentine’s Day (chocolate), St. Patrick’s (green beer, green cookies, green everything), Oktoberfest (beer).  But what about those ‘other’ food holidays? You see them sometimes [...]

On February 9th, First Lady Michelle Obama announced an online Food Environment Atlas. The map is a collaboration between the USDA Economic Research Service, the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Food and Nutrition Service to share data resources. The map is also designed to include geographic coordinates for farmer’s market locations and farmers markets/farm stands [...]

We try to use every available hint and tip to reduce food waste.  You never know what someone might need or use.  But sometimes… they get a little crazy.  Check this out: If you are planning a romantic meal for a loved one on St Valentine’s Day you may get some inspiration from some food [...]

It seems that Food Waste and Food Waste Reduction strategies have finally made it to the ‘hot topic‘ list. We have seen a huge increase in the number of webinars focused around food waste and reduction strategies in recent months.  Below are just some of those available in the coming months. Check out these TWO [...]

LeanPath coaches speak with clients on a regular basis.  Often we learn new information that can help others reduce waste and we like to share those Hints and Tips with you.  Having a proper review and re-use policy goes along way toward making sure that items are safely stored and then re-utilized in an operation.  Sites often do a good job are keeping [...]

We ran across this cool calculator today and wanted to pass it along.  Originally intended for K-12 school foodservice, it can be applied to most other foodservice groups (hospitals, university, corporate dining) with a little adjustment. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture created this produce calculator so that when a foodservice director  says, “I need enough [...]