Food Waste Focus

When tracking food waste, it’s invaluable to compare recent weeks against each other. Using a tool we call a Comparison Report you can highlight week to week changes and identify specific areas that are getting better as well as those that have gotten worse.
With ValuWaste Advantage 4, operators now have the ability to create Comparison [...]

Recently we have run across a few interesting blogs about school children and food waste.  What are our children learning about food waste?  What is the outcome?  Will it help them to develop lifelong habits?
LeanPath has been in contact with a class from East Academy in Tennessee.  A group of kids there have started a [...]

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 apples/pears/oranges [...]

Food waste is a big problem in our society.  In the US the statistics tell us we waste anywhere from 25%-50% of our available food supply.  A good portion of this food waste comes from commercial operators – hospitals, universities, grade schools.
How much food is wasted in grade schools?  We know that about 25% of [...]