Food Waste Focus

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 [...]

Compostable foodservice disposables (such as bagasse plates, PLA cups, potato cutlery, etc.) have received a lot of operator attention in recent years. However, one of the foodservice sectors that has been slower to embrace these products is healthcare foodservice.
Why is the case?
Perhaps one reason is that at least 30% of the meal volume in [...]

Every year a few key themes emerge at National Restaurant Show despite the massive scale of the event.
While “green” topics have been featured for several years, this was the first year that the discussion in Chicago evolved from a product-centered conversation (compostable disposables, organic foods, etc.) to focus on green operations.  The reality is that [...]

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 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 [...]

The New York Times recently wrote about a critical food waste sanitation problem that has developed in Egypt.  The background is that the Egyptian government required all pigs in the country to be slaughtered this past spring in a (misguided) effort to reduce swine flu risk. What they failed to realize was that these pigs were playing a [...]

As a follow-up to my recent summary on the environmental profile of garbage disposers, I wanted to share news from the South Bayside System Authority.  This agency provides wastewater treatment services to a good chunk of the San Francisco Peninsula in California.Â
Interestingly, they have concluded that use of garbage disposers  to handle food waste provides “positive [...]