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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [Protect Your Margin in 5 Minutes: The Power of the End-of-Service Cleardown Meeting](https://blog.leanpath.com/protect-your-margin-in-5-minutes-the-power-of-the-end-of-service-cleardown-meeting)

Posted By [Ben Murphy, Food Waste Prevention Chef](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/ben-murphy-food-waste-prevention-chef) on Sep 09, 2026

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Your kitchen is nearing the end of a long, frantic service. Your team is short-staffed, tired, and looking forward to clearing down and clocking off. But as the dining room empties, the line breakdown begins, and this is precisely where your hard-earned gross profits can slip straight into the bin, often unnecessarily.

[Read More \>\>](https://blog.leanpath.com/protect-your-margin-in-5-minutes-the-power-of-the-end-of-service-cleardown-meeting)

#### Topics:

[Food Waste Strategies](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-strategies)

## [How Sodexo North America Cut Food Waste in Half Across Hundreds of Kitchens: Webinar Takeaways](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-sodexo-north-america-cut-food-waste-in-half-across-hundreds-of-kitchens-webinar-takeaways)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Sep 08, 2026

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Ask any of the NGOs or research organizations focused on the global food waste crisis how we get this problem under control, and they'll tell you the same thing: big organizations need to set big food waste reduction goals. That's exactly what Sodexo North America did. The region set a 50% food waste reduction target, and crushed it.

[Read More \>\>](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-sodexo-north-america-cut-food-waste-in-half-across-hundreds-of-kitchens-webinar-takeaways)

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## [The EU Made Food Waste Reduction Mandatory. Here's What Food Service Operators Must Do Before June 2027.](https://blog.leanpath.com/the-eu-made-food-waste-reduction-mandatory-heres-what-food-service-operators-must-do-before-june-2027)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Aug 11, 2026

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TL;DR: The Five Things You Need to Know

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## [Cutting Food Waste 46%: How Elior North America Turned Data Into Daily Action at West Virginia University](https://blog.leanpath.com/cutting-food-waste-46-how-elior-north-america-turned-data-into-daily-action-at-west-virginia-university)

Posted By [Sam Smith, Director of Marketing](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-director-of-marketing) on Aug 11, 2026

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Hatfield's Dining Hall is one of the busiest foodservice outlets on the West Virginia University campus. Operated by Elior North America, the company manages roughly 30 foodservice locations across WVU. Hatfield's serves resident students approximately 15,000 meals per week across seven all-you-care-to-eat stations including a salad bar, grill, pasta, soup, a deli, and a rotating concept the team calls “street food.”

[Read More \>\>](https://blog.leanpath.com/cutting-food-waste-46-how-elior-north-america-turned-data-into-daily-action-at-west-virginia-university)

## [Food Waste Prevention at the Chopping Board: The Importance of Auditing Your Trim Waste](https://blog.leanpath.com/auditing-your-trim-waste)

Posted By [Ben Murphy, Food Waste Prevention Chef](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/ben-murphy-food-waste-prevention-chef) on Jul 24, 2026

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In a professional kitchen, tons of food waste can be traced back to one place - the chopping board. Every bunch of sloppy peelings or poorly fabricated protein in your prep bin is a leak in your gross profit and a direct hit on your operational efficiency.

[Read More \>\>](https://blog.leanpath.com/auditing-your-trim-waste)

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