FOOD WASTE IN RESTAURANTS

There are a number of reasons that restaurants waste food every single day, but luckily there is a way to make sure that less food is wasted. 46,244 restaurants have already joined Too Good To Go to make sure that the food ends up on the plate and not in the bin. 

"A review of 114 restaurants across 12 countries found that nearly every site evaluated achieved a positive return, with the average restaurant saving $7 for every $1 invested in reducing kitchen food waste"

(Clowes et al., 2019)

CAUSES FOR FOOD WASTE IN RESTAURANTS

• Over-preparation
• Overfilled buffets
• Incorrect and oversized portions
• No practice of allowing customers to take home their own leftovers
• Preparation residues (e.g trimmings, peels) and lack of repurposing of ingredients
• Over-ordering, overstocking and lack of adequate storage facilities

FIGHTING FOOD WASTE WITH RESTAURANTS

• 46,244 restaurants accross the Globe have signed up to fight food waste together with consumers via Too Good To Go
• A total of 56,927,900 meals have been saved from restaurants so far
  
• That is over 153,705 tonnes of CO2 saved!

THE CASE STUDY: 

YO! SUSHI

Just like most restaurants, YO! Sushi want to keep customers happy with enough choice and variety over lunch and dinner. At times, it can be difficult to predict how many customers will continue to come into the restaurant and how much they will eat which inevitably produces food waste from their revolving belt of fresh sushi as well as their pre-packaged sushi boxes sold for takeaway. In October 2016 

YO! Sushi partnered with Too Good To Go to reduce food waste and ensure this delicious food was enjoyed, not wasted. Since then, the restaurant chain has managed to save over 110,000 meals equating to 275,000 kg of CO2. 

If your business wants to join or have an issue that we could help with then we’d love to hear from you. Feel free to contact us.