Food Waste Intelligence

In our recent Leanpath/US Foods webinar, How Metz Culinary Prevents Food Waste, chefs Timothy Morris and Zach Walrath talked through their strategies for reducing plate waste. Check out the webinar excerpt above to learn their tactics for educating diners and managing portion control --while still delighting customers--to drop plate waste by 25-30%. Watch the full webinar here to learn more tips and strategies.

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...

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.