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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [How IKEA Burbank cut food waste 30%, saving 10k meals](https://blog.leanpath.com/ikea-burbank-cut-food-waste-30-percent)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on May 30, 2019

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IKEA's Burbank store, in California, has food sales that rank among the highest of the 47 stores in the U.S. On a Saturday, they will sell up to 14,000 items. IKEA co-workers began tracking the store's food waste in February 2017 using Leanpath automated measurement systems and identified its annual waste level to be over 15,000 kilograms. After a year of tracking waste in real time with Leanpath systems—and developing food waste prevention strategies based on that data— IKEA Burbank has shown dramatic improvement: a 30 percent reduct...

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## [See how Sodexo prevents food waste with Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/see-how-sodexo-prevents-food-waste-with-leanpath)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on May 23, 2019

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In 2017, Sodexo automated its food waste tracking program, WasteWatch, creating WasteWatch powered by Leanpath. In May 2019, Sodexo announced it will roll out WWxLP to 3,000 sites worldwide. We visited two U.S. sites to understand their success in preventing food waste with Leanpath.

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## [Sodexo announces bold commitment to food waste prevention: Leanpath deployment at 3,000 sites worldwide](https://blog.leanpath.com/sodexo-announces-leanpath-deployment-at-3000-sites)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on May 15, 2019

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Sodexo will deploy WasteWatch powered by Leanpath, its food waste prevention program, at 3,000 sites worldwide within a year, CEO Denis Machuel announced today at the Tech for Good Summit.

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## [12 food waste questions I get asked all the time](https://blog.leanpath.com/12-food-waste-questions-i-get-asked-all-the-time)

Posted By [Aspen Mayberry, Implementation Operations Manager](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/aspen-mayberry-implementation-operations-manager) on May 10, 2019

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I’ve spent the last 2 years on the road for Leanpath, visiting more than 120 kitchens to train culinary teams how to track and reduce food waste. I've met thousands of foodservice workers, and witnessed a LOT of food waste. Here are 12 questions I get asked all the time and how I respond to each one.

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## [See what 15 years of innovation has meant to the foodservice industry](https://blog.leanpath.com/15-years-of-foodservice-innovation)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Apr 24, 2019

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One of the best things about preventing food waste as long as we have is that you make a lot of friends along the way. A few of them, including IKEA’s Michael La Cour, Google’s Kristen Rainey, Toast Ale’s Tristram Stuart and more, helped us celebrate. Watch the video.

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