Food Waste Intelligence

Leanpath is expanding its integration of generative AI into its intelligent food waste prevention platform to drive faster, more impactful kitchen efficiency. This new generative AI integration analyzes a kitchen’s food waste data and recommends specific actions to engage kitchen teams and prevent that waste from reoccurring.

Leanpath, the global leader in food waste prevention in foodservice, builds on its integration capability with menu management systems, announcing a partnership with Galley Solutions and its culinary operating system. Leanpath’s intelligent food waste prevention platform is a complete solution that allows foodservice kitchens to understand what they are wasting and why it’s being wasted. Leanpath’s analytics, reporting, and automated prevention tools empower kitchens to stop that waste from reoccurring.

The world is wasting 1.05 billion tons of food a year, amounting to 132 kilograms per capita and almost one-fifth of all food available to consumers. The foodservice industry is responsible for 28 percent of this waste. Those were some of the findings of the UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report 2024, which calculated food waste for the most recent year data is available, 2022.

Leanpath and our foodservice partners prevented a massive amount of food waste in 2023: over 17 million pounds of food kept out of the bin. See how that translates into other environmental and social benefits to people and the planet...

Leanpath CEO and Co-Founder Andrew Shakman joined USAID's food loss and waste podcast Kitchen Sink to share some perspectives on the importance of food waste prevention, the critical role of measurement in the prevention process, and how kitchen culture changes with a focus on food waste. "If we want to have true system level impact, we need to do it at the prevention level," Andrew explains. "We're not going to compost our way out of a food waste problem that is immense and not stopping." Listen in to the conversation here.