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 [...]

When it comes to volume foodservice operations, chefs and managers often have to do a lot of math.  They need to scale recipes up and down, convert weights to volumes, and calculate yields (as-purchased to edible-portions).   They need to get the calculations right or risk a culinary disaster due to over/under production, over/under purchasing or quality [...]

Yes, we focus on food waste here.  But drinking water is another frequently wasted item in foodservice, so we pay attention.  Think of all the glasses of drinking water we pour for diners that never touch them, or all the plastic water bottles we sell, or the infinite number of water pitchers we set-up for [...]

I was speaking with a foodservice operator last week and she described a familiar challenge:  she’s in the process of building a new facility and is trying to figure out the best way to handle food waste from end-to-end. My response was to look at the waste hierarchy first and make sure she has programs [...]

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.  Interestingly, they have concluded that use of garbage disposers  to handle food waste provides [...]

Last week I toured the InSinkErator plant in Racine, Wisconsin.  It’s the site where most consumer and foodservice garbage disposers are manufactured in North America.  The facility is an impressive feat of industrial engineering, but I was there mainly to ask questions about the environmental profile of garbage disposers. Over the years, garbage disposers have [...]

On this blog we talk about Waste Tracking.  Mostly about Food Waste Tracking.  But there are a others kinds of waste that we could be tracking like water or energy.  In almost every building, the foodservice area uses the most energy and has many opportunities to reduce that energy footprint. The folks at Energy Star [...]

Everyone agrees it’s critical to keep food and other organics out of landfills to avoid methane production (a very potent greenhouse gas).  One of the popular strategies is to compost food waste.  I believe composting - when used in conjunction with a comprehensive food waste tracking/source reduction program – can be an excellent solution to divert [...]

Dan Bendall, Principal at Rockville, MD based FoodStrategy, wrote an excellent piece in a recent issue of Food Management Magazine about “Waste Disposal Choices.”   He notes that: “Waste has become a political and community issue as well as a cost concern.” This is true and perhaps no topic is more politically sensitive than how foodservice operations dispose [...]