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Last updated on Feb 19, 2025
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Your restaurant is struggling with food waste. How can you get your staff on board with reducing it?

Convincing your team to reduce food waste is crucial for a sustainable and profitable kitchen. To get everyone on board:

- Implement a tracking system to monitor waste and identify patterns.

- Offer incentives for staff who come up with effective waste-reducing ideas.

- Conduct regular training sessions to educate on the importance of waste management and how it impacts the environment and the bottom line.

How do you encourage your team to minimize food waste? Share your experience.

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Last updated on Feb 19, 2025
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Your restaurant is struggling with food waste. How can you get your staff on board with reducing it?

Convincing your team to reduce food waste is crucial for a sustainable and profitable kitchen. To get everyone on board:

- Implement a tracking system to monitor waste and identify patterns.

- Offer incentives for staff who come up with effective waste-reducing ideas.

- Conduct regular training sessions to educate on the importance of waste management and how it impacts the environment and the bottom line.

How do you encourage your team to minimize food waste? Share your experience.

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    Paula Feldman

    | Food Industry Advisor and Trainer | Let´s find together the best answers to improve food safety and quality management |

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    Una de las fuentes de desperdicio es la falta de estandarización. Convocar al personal para la confección de recetas estandarizadas de acuerdo al historial de raciones de cada item del menú ofrecido puede ser un camino para resolver el problema.

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    Cristine Dantas

    Nutricionista Funcional Integrativa | Gestora em Comunicação Estratégica | Tutora Neuroeducacional

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    Transforme a redução do desperdício em uma cultura dentro da equipe. Defina metas claras, treine sobre reaproveitamento inteligente e incentive sugestões inovadoras. Utilize indicadores visíveis para mostrar o impacto das ações e celebre conquistas. Pequenos ajustes no manuseio, armazenamento e porcionamento fazem uma grande diferença. Quando todos entendem que menos desperdício significa mais eficiência e sustentabilidade, a mudança acontece naturalmente.

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    Wassf Anwer

    Operation Spa`s Manager | Spa & Recreations | Spa Management, Hospitality Industry | Salons Management

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    Reducing food waste in a restaurant starts with creating awareness and fostering a team mindset around sustainability. I focus on training the team regularly, emphasizing the impact of food waste both on the environment and the business. We also set measurable goals, like reducing waste by a certain percentage, and involve the team in brainstorming practical solutions. I encourage them to think creatively, whether it's repurposing ingredients or properly storing food to extend its shelf life. Recognizing and rewarding staff who consistently contribute to waste reduction helps keep everyone motivated and engaged.

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    Perla Rosa Vasquez

    Political Scientist | Supreme Court Interpreter Candidate | Resource Diplomacy Strategist | Lithium Green Growth Research Author | Spanish Interpreter

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    Promote those who find effective strategies and make it public. Incentivate innovation and allow employees present and put in practice the best ideas to reduce waste without losing desired outcomes.

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    Myee Campos

    Brand Voice Strategist | Emotional Copywriter | Quiet Lead Gen Coaches & Experts

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    Food waste isn't just leftovers it's lost profit, lost purpose. How do you rally your team to cut it down? Track the waste not to point fingers but to spot patterns. Show the impact how every scrap saved boosts the bottom line. Involve the team ask for ideas, reward solutions, build a culture of care. It’s not a solo fight. When your staff sees the 'why,' they'll drive the 'how.'

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    Harshil Gathani

    Chairman's Office at Ambuja Neotia Group | Group Strategy | Business Planning & Analysis | Corporate Restructuring | Mergers & Acquisitions | Investor Relations | Program Management

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    Some of them are as follows : 1. Tracking the wastage i.e. you get to know which item / SKUs is the highly wasted. 2. Plan your preparations around making the meal for that item. 3. This means you are purchasing way more than required, you put out a metric or derive how much of that product or its raw material is needed. 4. Incentivize the team for reducing the wastage and effectively reducing of the unnecessary products. 5. Reward the highest contributor towards reducing wastage and publicly acknowledge his innovative efforts of controlling the same. 6. Develop an exact SOP of the Food ingredients that is required for making or preparing the dish / item. Above are some ways of managing the wastage and promoting efficiency.

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    Anna Carolina A.

    Gerente de A&B | Liderança, Comunicação, Gestão de Equipe

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    Para reduzir o desperdício no restaurante, envolva sua equipe. Treine sobre boas práticas, estabeleça metas, monitore perdas e incentive o reaproveitamento inteligente dos alimentos. Crie uma cultura de conscientização e valorize sugestões. Pequenas ações diárias fazem toda a diferença!

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    faisal basheer

    Director of Culinary Operations | Passion for Culinary Excellence I Guest Satisfaction & Driving P&L Impact

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    Implement AI-powered smart bins that analyze discarded food, providing real-time waste data to chefs. Integrate blockchain-based inventory tracking to optimize purchasing and reduce spoilage. Use dynamic portioning technology, allowing guests to customize serving sizes via digital ordering. Gamify waste reduction with a staff leaderboard rewarding innovation in upcycling ingredients.

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    Naveen Sampally

    As chef I have 18 years experience and graduated from university California and worked in USA for 3 years and hands on modern Indian cuisine

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    Food wastage is always important topic which is very critical and important for a organization so all chef must have very good understanding of of food wastage this is can be handle well when we have good experience with food quality and perfect planing and execution of food and guide staff how to get control on it for food wastage so bring all together communication is the key in between kitchen and front of office and no of guest and planning accordingly is the best way to control

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