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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [How Novotel Brisbane cut food waste 66%](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-novotel-brisbane-cut-food-waste-66-percent)

Posted By [Sam Smith](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-1) on Sep 06, 2018

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Novotel Brisbane is a 296-room hotel located in the city’s business district. Executive Chef Sean Collins has focused his food waste tracking at the breakfast buffet, which serves 150-400 guests daily. The savings he's realized have been reinvested in the kitchen, leading to better product and steady menu pricing. “The whole exercise has bolstered our competitive edge. Not having to increase our prices to compensate for cost of goods: that’s given us a head start above our competitors.” Collins has lead his team to a 66 percent reduct...

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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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## [Looking at egg waste](https://blog.leanpath.com/looking-at-egg-waste)

Posted By [Robb White, CEC CCA AAC; Executive Chef & Food Waste Prevention Catalyst](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/robb-white-cec-cca-aac-executive-chef-food-waste-prevention-catalyst) on Aug 17, 2018

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This is a recurring feature where LeanPath Executive Chef Robb White examines real food waste images from LeanPath 360s and shares insights based on what he sees. Overproduced scrambled eggs. This is such a common thing to see in our food waste photography. Breakfast buffets—or buffets in general—are difficult to match production to demand. Plus you've got the additional concern of having a visually bountiful spread. A recipe for waste. Eggs are often mass produced in the morning in big batches that aren’t justified by sales, but that...

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## [How Colleges are Preventing Food Waste Today](https://blog.leanpath.com/college-food-waste-prevention)

Posted By [Andrew Shakman, President & CEO](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/andrew-shakman-president-ceo) on Aug 10, 2018

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Based on LeanPath data, colleges and universities generate between 4-10 percent pre-consumer food waste (by value, as a percentage of food purchases). Post-consumer food waste--or plate waste--is often equivalent to the pre-consumer waste, suggesting between 8-15 percent total food waste.

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## [Harvard conference: food waste measurement in focus](https://blog.leanpath.com/refed-harvard-summit-measurement)

Posted By [Steven Finn, Vice President of Food Waste Prevention.](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/steven-finn-vice-president-of-food-waste-prevention) on Jul 31, 2018

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US Food Waste Summit, panel on Measurement of Food Waste. Panelists from left to right: Andrew Shakman, LeanPath, Inc. | Nell Fry, Sodexo | Kai Robertson, World Resources Institute | Alison Grantham, Blue Apron | Lisa Johnson, North Carolina State University | Jackie Suggitt, ReFED LeanPath recently returned from the US Food Waste Summit in Cambridge, MA, a powerful event led by the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic and ReFED which brought together leaders from all over the globe to focus on solutions to the food waste challenge.

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