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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [Preventing food waste with the Leanpath platform: combining artificial intelligence and culinary intelligence (2 min video)](https://blog.leanpath.com/preventing-food-waste-with-the-leanpath-platform-combining-artificial-intelligence-and-culinary-intelligence)

Posted By [Sam Smith, Director of Marketing](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-director-of-marketing) on Oct 30, 2024

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At Leanpath, we've helped our customers prevent over 100,000,000 pounds of food from going to waste by using our intelligent food waste prevention platform. And we're just getting started. Leanpath brings together artificial intelligence and culinary intelligence to help foodservice operations solve their food waste problem. We don't just drop technology into a kitchen and say good luck. We partner with the chefs, the culinary teams, and the larger organization to help them reach their financial and sustainability goals through food w...

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[Food Waste Strategies](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-strategies)

## [10 food waste questions to ask your kitchen team](https://blog.leanpath.com/10-food-waste-questions-to-ask-your-kitchen-team)

Posted By [Sam Smith, Director of Marketing](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-director-of-marketing) on Oct 30, 2024

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The Leanpath webinar, "10 Food Waste Questions You Need to Ask Your Kitchen Team Today," provided insights for kitchens on minimizing food waste through strategic questioning. With instruction from Leanpath chefs Ben Murphy and Robb White, the session emphasized how asking the right questions in five core areas–overproduction, trim waste, expired ingredients, equipment failure, and quality assurance–can drive waste reduction:. Below are the 10 questions recommended by the chefs to help kitchen teams identify and manage food waste effe...

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## [5 Ways Operators Must Adapt to the New Food Waste Landscape](https://blog.leanpath.com/5-ways-operators-must-adapt-to-the-new-food-waste-landscape)

Posted By [Sam Smith, Director of Marketing](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-director-of-marketing) on Jun 21, 2024

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Leanpath CEO and founder Andrew Shakman recently hosted a webinar on the future of food waste prevention and how operators must adapt to that changing landscape. “When we look to the future,” says Shakman, “we think that food waste action is going to be more required by law and integrated into everyday practice in the world's kitchens rather than being a special activity in an innovation context. It’s going to be the norm of how we think and work.” Here are 5 ways foodservice operations must adapt:

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## [5 Factors Driving Food Waste in Foodservice](https://blog.leanpath.com/5-factors-driving-food-waste-in-foodservice)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on May 10, 2024

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Foodservice operations are often high-intensity, high-pressure environments. There are quotas to meet, quality to uphold, and regulations to comply with. And typically, food waste to contend with—up to 10% of all food purchased goes to waste in the kitchen in many foodservice operations.

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[Kitchen Culture](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/kitchen-culture) [Food Waste Strategies](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-strategies)

## [Ideas for repurposing broccoli trim and overproduction](https://blog.leanpath.com/ideas-for-repurposing-broccoli-trim-and-overproduction)

Posted By [Ben Murphy, Food Waste Prevention Chef](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/ben-murphy-food-waste-prevention-chef) on Nov 06, 2023

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This post is part of a Leanpath culinary blog series looking at ideas for repurposing commonly overproduced menu items. We encounter quite a lot of broccoli in foodservice operations’ waste data. Whether it be trim waste–i.e throwing away edible stalks–or overproduced cooked broccoli that is discarded, there are various innovative things kitchen teams can do to keep broccoli out of the bin and ensure its purchase value is retained. Broccoli has several qualities that make it the ideal ingredient to repurpose. Its sustenance and good v...

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#### Topics:

[Tips & Tricks](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/tips-tricks) [Overproduction Tips](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/overproduction-tips) [Food Waste Strategies](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-strategies)

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