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Food waste
Chefs at food service company Sodexo halve recipe time with AI
Sodexo's culinary team, which manages more than 70,000 recipes in North America, also tested AI on 25 to 30 recipes to find swaps that cut food waste.
Oct. 16 · via FoodService Director
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Food service
Staff from over 40 countries shape a Wisconsin hospital's menu
The foodservice team at UW Health, the University of Wisconsin's health system, spent about 10 years adding plant dishes with tastings and staff recipes.
Oct. 15 · via FoodService Director
Food waste
A Tennessee school sends its leftovers to a food rescue weekly
Chattanooga Christian School's dining team already weighed its waste, so packing food for the CHATT Foundation, a local food rescue, took little extra work.
Oct. 14 · via FoodService Director
Sourcing
Ontario bistro builds its menu from its farm's 150 crops
Chefs Ben Denham and Ashley Lloyd start every menu at White Lily Farms, the 10-acre farm that supplies their restaurant, Sundays.
Oct. 13 · via MICHELIN Guide
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Credited this week
Operators who fixed something, named for it
Strong Roots and Support + Feed6,200 meals and pantry items for New York City communities
Vermont farming group NOFA-VT28 neighbor dinners funded with $200 grants
Pret A Manger9.3 million pounds of food to hunger relief group City Harvest in 26 years
Flour Mill Community Farmgives its leftover market produce to the Sudbury Food Bank
SeaShare270 million seafood servings delivered to food banks in 31 years
Worth knowing
The news, and what it means in the kitchen
Colorado's new farm-to-school awards give $1,000 to a rural and an urban school winner in each of five categories.Naming a rural and an urban winner in each category means a small rural district competes with other rural districts, and the stipend goes straight back into the program. FoodService Director ↗
Restaurant software maker Crunchtime now lets cooks log food waste on the kitchen screen that shows their orders.Logging waste on the screen cooks already watch means fewer missed entries, and an accurate count is where every waste cut starts. QSR Magazine ↗
Food maker Ferrero says its Brantford, Ontario, plant is cutting CO2 emissions by 15,000 metric tons a year.A buyer who sources from big food manufacturers can ask for plant-level numbers like these, plant by plant. Food Dive ↗
Nevada County, California, now pays farmers up to $14 a ton toward compost from approved suppliers.The rebate helps cover the cost of trucking compost in, since most suppliers are in the Sacramento Valley. Nevada County ↗
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