Food Waste Intelligence

Chef Justin Fredrickson began working at the MGM Grand more than 12 years ago and has been in his current role of Executive Chef of the buffet for nearly four years. MGM Grand first implemented the LeanPath System in its conference services kitchen and expanded to the buffet four years ago by installing a Tracker in the main production kitchen.

Framingham State University dining services, operated by Sodexo, serves about 1,400 students at each meal Monday through Thursday. They started the LeanPath program in September 2013, installing two trackers for their resident dining operation.

In 2011, Michigan Tech implemented the LeanPath System on an ongoing basis in three residence dining halls and one retail food operation. They did so after first conducting a successful 6-week pilot program in which they reduced waste at one dining hall by more than 50%.

Garett DiStefano, Director of Residential Dining at University of Massachusetts Amherst, joined the UMass team in 2010 and became Director of Residential Dining in 2011. He oversees the four all-you-can-eat residential dining commons, bakeshop and nutrition program at one of the largest college dining programs in the country, with more than 16,000 students on meal plans and over 40,000 daily meals served. He and his team implemented the LeanPath System in January of 2012, installing Trackers in its two largest dining commons to track ...

Chef Thomas Sacksteder, Certified Executive Chef, joined the Gundersen Lutheran Health System in 1997, where he oversees specialty items in the kitchen and acts as a project manager, generating and supervising new initiatives. He graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., and has more than 40 years of cooking experience. He got his start in his family’s restaurant, “Sacksteder’s,” in Dayton, Ohio.