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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [The Ultimate Guide to Preventing Food Waste at the Buffet](https://blog.leanpath.com/buffet-whitepaper-2018)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Oct 05, 2018

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There are three big reasons the buffet is a key source of food waste. First, it’s challenging to match supply and demand in an all-you-care-to-eat format. The default is overproduction: better to have too much on display than disappoint a customer with too little. Second, a buffet has to be aggressively merchandised. Half empty pans and blank spots on the line kill the look of a bountiful buffet. And third, when faced with that bounty, customers have a hard time gauging their own appetite and will often simply take more than they can ...

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## [How Is the World Doing Toward Halving Food Loss and Waste?](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-is-the-world-doing-toward-halving-food-loss-and-waste)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Sep 25, 2018

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More large companies are measuring food waste, a major development in reaching the UN's goal to halve food waste by 2030, a new report illustrates. Three years ago, the United Nation’s outlined its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which includes Target 12.3’s call to halve food waste and reduce food loss by 2030. We now have an update on progress.

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## [How Arizona State University cut pre- AND post-consumer food waste](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-arizona-state-university-cut-food-waste-39-perent)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Sep 20, 2018

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The five dining halls on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus turn out close to 12,000 meals per day. They had tracked food waste manually before adopting LeanPath in February 2017. ASU is also using LeanPath's post-consumer waste tracker, Spark. "LeanPath is a lot easier than manual tracking. Easier than we anticipated,” says Aramark foodservice director Kirby Lannom. “I thought it would be difficult to get employees to buy in and use it, but it didn’t take any time.”

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## [LeanPath Wins Global Game Changers Award](https://blog.leanpath.com/global-game-changers-award-2018)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Sep 14, 2018

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## [How College of Charleston prevents food waste with LeanPath](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-college-of-charleston-prevents-food-waste-with-leanpath)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Aug 30, 2018

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