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At Google’s Cafés, Chefs Pay Close Attention To Food Waste

April 24, 2019: 12:00 AM EST
At its headquarters in Mountain View, California, Google operates several cafés that serve 200,000 free meals a day. In 2014, Google started working with Leanpath, a company that provides equipment to measure and track food waste, and it coaches chefs on how to use that data. Google’s chefs carefully weigh ingredients that can’t be used to determine exactly how much food is wasted. They cook in batches to avoid preparing too much food, and adjust through the meal. By using these methods, Google says, it has kept more than six million pounds of food from going to landfills or compost. “The reality is that the act of measurement is, in and of itself, a very profound intervention,” says Andrew Shakman, CEO of Leanpath. [Image Credit: © Free-Photos from Pixabay]
Adele Peters, "How Google saved over 6 million pounds of food waste in its cafés", Fast Company, April 24, 2019, © Mansueto Ventures, LLC
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