Food Waste Intelligence

The Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel and Conference Center, with its 417 rooms, two restaurants, a bar, 24/7 room service, and 32 meeting rooms, faces the complex challenge of managing food production for a diverse group of guests. Pim Van Het Reve, the hotel’s food and beverage manager, knew that managing food waste was crucial for both the hotel’s financial health and its commitment to social responsibility. But his kitchen staff was skeptical about adopting a new food waste tracking system. That all changed when the hotel partnered...

The King Edward’s Trust is 10 secondary schools and 10,500 students in Birmingham, England, with foodservice operated by Alliance in Partnership (AIP)/Sodexo. Since 2023, the school kitchen teams have tracked and prevented food waste using Leanpath’s intelligent food waste management system and together have reduced their waste by 40 percent, with a reduction in the value of their food waste of 50 percent.

Compass Group Australia has cut its total food waste by 34% since 2022 using Leanpath. The results were reported in Compass Group’s 2024 Sustainability Report. The report highlights: “Over the last three years, our Australian business has continued to deploy Leanpath’s industry leading technology into over 200 sites across the country. By using the system, they have been able to track the total weight of food items repurposed. This year, a reported 45,000kg of food that would have otherwise been wasted, has been utilised.”

“Just six years remain to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals’ Target 12.3, which calls for halving food loss and waste worldwide by 2030. At this juncture, we fear that the uncomfortable truth is that SDG 12.3 is fast becoming out of reach.”

Food waste data gave the university’s culinary teams the information they needed to identify problems in prep, forecasting and even recipes to then reduce waste and increase diner satisfaction.