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 ..read more

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 ..read more

Leanpath has a team of executive chefs on staff who travel the world training kitchens on how to prevent food waste. They’re constantly collecting new ideas on best practices in food waste prevention and sharing them right here on our blog. To celebrate Food Waste Prevention Week (April 1-7 2024) we’ve collected 10 of those posts that are bursting with tips and ideas on how foodservice teams can become more profitable and sustainable by preventing food waste.  Dig in ..read more

East Carolina University Medical Center’s Beaufort Hospital is a 142-bed healthcare campus in Washington, North Carolina, USA. Food and nutrition services are operated by Sodexo and overseen by General Manager Denise M. Hewitt and Executive Chef John Jacob Phillips (above at his Leanpath Tracker).  The team has successfully reduced its kitchen waste by 53 percent since implementing the  Leanpath program in 2020. Expanding on that success, beginning in 2023, they started using their program to track plate waste from patient trays, and within months they have seen a reduction in plate ..read more

In 2018, Sodexo announced the largest deployment of automated food waste prevention technology in the world, with the plan to roll out WasteWatch powered by Leanpath at 3,000 of its sites worldwide, with the goal of cutting its food waste in half by 2025. To achieve this level of impact requires strong leadership at a regional level.  To learn more about what it takes to drive regional commitment and results, we spoke with Sodexo’s Regional Project Manager and Leanpath Champion for the Middle East and Africa, Umesh Jaiswar. Umesh oversees the rollout and success of WasteWatch Powered by ..read more

    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 ..read more

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 ..read more

The dining operation at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania, USA, run by Metz Culinary, 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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more