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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [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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## [New Research Holds Promise for Reducing Food Waste in Culinary Education Environments](https://blog.leanpath.com/new-research-holds-promise-for-reducing-food-waste)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Jul 13, 2026

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Institutional kitchens face a universal challenge when it comes to pre-consumer food waste. This is particularly true in culinary education environments where trial, error, and experimentation are necessary for skill development. However, a recent study conducted at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) by the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC) and Leanpath, a MCURC Research Innovation Affiliate, offers insights that extend far beyond the classroom.

[Read More \>\>](https://blog.leanpath.com/new-research-holds-promise-for-reducing-food-waste)

## [Google exceeds its moonshot reduction in food waste — and data made it possible](https://blog.leanpath.com/google-achieves-its-moonshot-reduction-in-food-waste)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Jul 06, 2026

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## [Introducing Snap AI: closing the food waste blind spot at off-site events](https://blog.leanpath.com/introducing-snap-ai-closing-the-food-waste-blind-spot-at-off-site-events)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on May 15, 2026

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You know the scene: food goes off-site for an event. Maybe you have a food waste tracker in your kitchen, maybe not. Regardless, there’s no way to realistically get the overproduced food back to the kitchen to be tracked. So it gets thrown away off-site: no tracking, no reporting, no accountability.

[Read More \>\>](https://blog.leanpath.com/introducing-snap-ai-closing-the-food-waste-blind-spot-at-off-site-events)

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