Food Waste Focus

Toque Magazine, an online resource for culinary professionals focused on “what’s happening in the kitchen,”  just published a good overview article on food waste. The author is journalist Laurie Wiegler and the piece is titled “Whittling Away at Food Waste.“   It covers a range of contributing factors that cause food waste in restaurants.  It also [...]

Today Sodexo Campus announced preliminary results from their food waste tracking pilot program. The early findings are strong, showing almost a 30% reduction in pre-consumer food waste as a result of daily food waste tracking. Sodexo partnered with LeanPath on this initiative. deploying LeanPath food waste tracking tools.  Eight college and university sites have been [...]

LeanPath recently provided the following guest post for Computrition’s Great X-Change blog. What would you do if you observed someone carrying a bag brimming with dozens of $20 bills out of your operation toward the loading dock?   Confront them?  Call the police? Take a photo? No doubt, you’d do something.  Pronto. Yet, in most foodservice [...]

Following in the footsteps of several colleges and universities, Pomona College has launched a food waste tracking initiative this fall in partnership with Sodexo, its foodservice management partner. Pomona is participating — along with seven other institutions –  in a Sodexo pilot program to reduce pre-consumer food waste.  Each operation measures all pre-consumer food waste [...]

On October 7th, the White House Council on Environmental Quality announced the eight winners of the 2010 GreenGov Presidential Awards. The winner in the “Good Neighbor” category was the Nutrition and Food Services Team at the VA Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia.  They were recognized for the totality of their sustainability efforts, which include [...]

The campus newspaper at Cal State University Monterey Bay (Seaside, CA), recently reported on Sodexo’s efforts to track pre-consumer food waste at the main student dining center. Using LeanPath automated tracking tools, the university is developing a complete profile of the food being waste in order to drive change that leads to prevention in the [...]

Sodexo recently announced a Stop Wasting Food Campaign: Today Sodexo expands its commitment to building a better tomorrow for the planet and its people with the launch of “Stop Wasting Food”, a campaign with one simple goal: Winning student support for cutting food waste to curb climate change. It’s exciting that this campaign is rooted [...]

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the City of Hillsboro, Oregon recently released a joint case study on waste prevention. Titled “Food Waste Prevention Case Study:  Intel Corporation’s Cafes“, the study reports on Bon Appetit Management Company’s use of LeanPath food waste tracking tools to prevent and minimize food waste at two Intel Cafes [...]

(This article recently appeared in the July 6, 2010 On-line Issue of Food Management magazine) This Practice Can be Part of a Recycling Program, But Many Restrictions Apply. According to the FDA, kitchen waste may be fed to livestock, but there are regulations and restrictions that apply, and a food service establishment that wants to [...]

Jill Scott is the Assistant Director of Food Services at Ohio Health’s Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio where she has served for four years. She previously was with Ohio State University in the Hospitality Management Program and in Campus Dining Services. Initial Expectations The team at Riverside has been using the LeanPath system since [...]