Food Waste Intelligence

Two Marriott hotels in Costa Rica, the Costa Rica Marriott Hacienda Belen (above) and Los Suenos Marriott Resort, launched the Leanpath food waste prevention platform last year and have already reduced the value of their food waste by 25%.

This significant pace of food waste reduction results puts the hotels in line to easily meet Marriott International’s Serve 360 corporate-wide sustainability goal of cutting food waste in half by 2025.

The dining operation at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania, USA, run by Metz Culinary Management, serves more than 1,000 meals a day, primarily from its all-you-care-to-eat dining hall.

Executive Chef Timothy Morris and his team have been using Leanpath to track and prevent their food waste for one year. In that time they’ve already reduced waste by an impressive 45 percent.

“It’s really important to me to have the kitchen running as tight as possible,” the chef says. “With the cost of food always going up and the money we’re bringing in not always going up with it, trying to squeeze every dollar out of our food is very important.”

Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel and Conference Center has partnered with technology provider Leanpath in a new effort to reduce its food waste by 50 percent.

The hotel’s food waste reduction goal aligns with parent-company Marriott International’s corporate-wide goal of cutting food waste in half by 2025.

The catering team at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are working with Leanpath to prevent food waste throughout their foodservice operation. In their central production unit (CPU) alone, in only eight months, they have cut their food waste by 42 percent, preventing over 3.5 tonnes of food from going to waste.

The foodservice program at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, is broad and ambitious. They have traditional patient trays, room service and a cafeteria, but they also have a full-service restaurant that operates Monday through Friday. They have a medically tailored meal program that serves the hospital as well as area nursing homes and adult care facilities. They also have a small-footprint grocery on site, stocked primarily with donated food for low-income area residents. A mobile version of the grocery will launch soon to travel into the area's food deserts. The mobile and stationary groceries also work with local minority owned restaurants to prepare meals. 

“We actually touch every county in the state with our meals,” says Director of Culinary and Executive Chef Dugan Wetzel.

Since January 2023, the Eskenazi culinary team has brought the same mission-driven ambition to reducing food waste with Leanpath, cutting their waste by an impressive 32 percent in just three months.