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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [Chef Ann Cooper and Leanpath create new food waste engagement tools for elementary schools](https://blog.leanpath.com/chef-ann-cooper-bvsd-food-waste-curriculum)

Posted By [Steven Finn, Vice President of Food Waste Prevention.](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/steven-finn-vice-president-of-food-waste-prevention) on Nov 20, 2019

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Chef Ann Cooper, Director of Nutrition Services for Boulder Valley School District, in Colorado, USA, and founder of the Chef Ann Foundation has worked with Leanpath to reduce food waste across the district. We also recently collaborated on a new curriculum teaching the importance of food waste prevention to elementary school students.

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## [How the Hilton San Diego Bayfront achieved massive food waste reductions](https://blog.leanpath.com/hilton-bayfront-san-diego)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Oct 24, 2019

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The Hilton San Diego Bayfront, a 1,190-room luxury hotel on the city’s waterfront, has been tracking food waste with Leanpath for only five months, but has already seen a dramatic reduction in food waste: a 50% drop in waste by weight and 51% drop by waste value.

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## [Big food waste reduction in a grocery’s central kitchen](https://blog.leanpath.com/new-seasons-grocery-food-waste-case-study)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Aug 30, 2019

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In five months using Leanpath, New Seasons Market's Central Kitchen has prevented over 46 thousand pounds of food from being wasted, a reduction of 22 percent in its waste. High staff engagement and strong data analysis has produced many positive changes in the team, and a new level of gratification to their work.

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## [How IKEA West Chester kept nearly 5k meals from going to waste](https://blog.leanpath.com/ikea-west-chester-saved-5k-meals-with-leanpath)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Jun 25, 2019

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IKEA West Chester, located 30 miles outside Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, has been using the Leanpath food waste prevention platform in its restaurant and bistro for a little over a year. The store measured an initial annualized food waste weight of 14,000 kilograms. By setting goals and keeping the team focused and trained, the store cut its food waste by 20 percent in one year. That translates to nearly 5,000 meals saved from the bin.

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## [See how The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City reduced food waste by 54% with Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/ritz-carlton-pentagon-city-reduced-food-waste-54-percent)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Jun 06, 2019

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The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City has been a Leanpath client since 2016. Since then they have reduced food waste by 54%, saving 61,000 pounds of food waste from hitting the landfill. We visited the team in Washington, DC, to talk about their success in preventing food waste with Leanpath.

[Read More \>\>](https://blog.leanpath.com/ritz-carlton-pentagon-city-reduced-food-waste-54-percent)

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