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Food Waste Tracking Software Introduced for Restaurants & Foodservice Operations of All Sizes
LeanPath, Inc. Announces Software Solution for Daily Tracking of Food Waste
Portland, Ore. -
LeanPath® proudly announces the introduction of WasteLOGGER, a software solution for food waste tracking that helps any restaurant, hotel, caterer, or foodservice operation prevent, minimize and avoid pre-consumer food waste (which [...]

We’re proud to announce that LeanPath will be previewing our new food waste tracking software product at the National Restaurant Show starting this weekend (May 22-25).
The software is called WasteLOGGER and it’s designed for operations with lower volumes of production and food waste than those that use our fully automated system called ValuWaste.   WasteLOGGER will [...]

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 [...]

Is there really an i-phone App for Food Waste? Yes- it’s true!
The folks at Waste Aware Scotland have created an i-phone app that helps the home consumer learn how to reduce food waste.
“The app provides consumers with easy to use interactive tools such as a portion size planner; recipe finder for leftover ingredients; weekly [...]

We are always excited to see more people blogging about green foodservice.Â
Paul Kuck has just announced a new blog which will focus on the operational side of green foodservice, which would include waste management along with many other topics:

EUGENE, Oregon – October 20, 2009 – Sustainable Foodservice Consulting (SFC), publisher of http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com, is pleased to [...]

Hello everyone:

We are passionate about food waste reduction!  We like to share our experiences, hints and tips with all of you.  Hopefully you can use these tools to reduce food waste in your operation.  We would like to share a new tool with you.  It’s a calculator that can help you learn about the different [...]

ARAMARK Higher Education recently announced it will be piloting a food carbon calculator that takes into account all carbon-generating elements of a high-volume foodservice operation, including food waste disposal:
ARAMARK Higher Education, a world leader in providing professional services to more than 600 colleges and universities throughout North America, has partnered with Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP), [...]

Volume 4 of the Food Waste Flyer newsletter was released recently.  It provides a profile of waste reduction and tracking efforts by Chef Ralph Geslao at Lankenau Hospital near Philadelphia, along with a discussion of calculating ROI from food waste management and tips for avoiding waste around the holidays.   Read Volume 4 and subscribe to future  issues. Â
The Food [...]

You’ve heard this expression before: “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”  Many people today use this expression, especially those in the ‘green’ fields of source reduction, recycling, energy conservation.  What should you measure?  How do you take what you’ve “measured” and use it to “manage” your business (improve your margins, generate profit, save cold [...]

I just learned of a new book that will be published soon by Tristram Stuart titled “Uncovering the Global Food Scandal.”   You can read a review from the UK or wait for publication in the US in October, 2009.  Here is the publisher’s description:
The true cost of what the global food industry throws away. The world thinks [...]