Join us in celebrating Stop Food Waste Day by learning more about our holistic waste reduction commitments, and bring the zero-waste mentality into your own kitchen with inventive, scrappy recipes to minimize food waste.
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Zero Waste Recipe Roundup
In honor of Stop Food Waste Day, follow these savvy, scrappy recipes to bring the zero-waste approach to your own kitchen!
Our Commitment to Reducing Food Waste
In honor of Stop Food Waste Day, we are sharing how our companywide waste commitments impact our operations each and every day, which will help us meet our broader goal of reducing food loss and waste nationally by 50% by 2030.
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Leading By Example
Bon Appétit Management Company is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, museums, and other specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we operate more than 1,000 cafés in 33 states. Our chefs cook from scratch, including sauces, stocks, and soups. Widely recognized as a pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, we are proud to be the first food service company to:
Directly support small, local farms- Strive to serve only sustainable seafood
- Address antibiotics overuse in our meat supply
- Switch to cage-free eggs, both shell and precracked/liquid
- Tackle food’s role in climate change
- Advocate for farmworkers’ rights
- Commit to pork raised without gestation crates
- Switch to third-party verified humanely raised ground beef
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We love a themed dinner, but we love a themed dinner even more when it includes A LOT of from ...
We love a themed dinner, but we love a themed dinner even more when it includes A LOT of from scratch bread. 😍
@bonappetitcca Executive Chef Andrew Baechler always goes above and beyond to bring their movie inspired menus to life. For their Ghibli-inspired menu, they shared breads featured in the films!
#LoveBonAppetit #ThemedDinner #FromScratchBaking #BakingLove #MovieInspiredMenus
Our teams dug into the details this Earth Day with events ranging from cover crop snack mix tastings...
Our teams dug into the details this Earth Day with events ranging from cover crop snack mix tastings and menus to herb planting! 🌱
1️⃣-2️⃣ @bonappetitwhitman featured a soul bowl filled with cover crops and featured a planting station!
3️⃣ @PennDining hosted Penn Farm and Penn Sustainability for the inside scoop on food injustice and sustainable farming. Students were then invited to make a hearty farrotto with seasonal salad.
4️⃣ This buckwheat noodle bowl with garlic kale and marinated daikon radish was paired with a baby kale salad with sunflower seeds at @bonappetitpuc — so many cover crops!
5️⃣ Students at Roger Williams University could stop by for cover crop treats from @bonappetit_rwu and quiz themselves on cover crops for a chance to win some gift cards!
6️⃣ @bonappetit_stolaf hosted an herb-planting event to help students connect to the soil (literally!).
7️⃣ At @chicomarxssf, our chefs shared a special menu focused on pops of plant-based flavor! This taco salad prominently featured some delightful nitrogen-fixing beans and cover crop radishes.
8️⃣ @emersondining highlighted their sustainability practices at a pop up featuring cover crop-rich barley salad.
9️⃣ Free from the top 9 allergens AND rich in cover crops? This special from @scudining featured a sunchoke and fava bean puree alongside mustard greens and more fava beans.
🔟 @unioncollege_dining joined Union College’s Earth Fest, sharing local mushroom tacos.
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #CoverCrops #RegenerativeAgriculture
Did you know that Bon Appétit is committed to reducing food loss and waste nationally by 50% by ...
Did you know that Bon Appétit is committed to reducing food loss and waste nationally by 50% by 2030!? Here's how we're working to achieve this goal 👇
📉 All Bon Appétit cafés are required to track food waste.
We created Waste Not™, our proprietary waste tracking system created by chefs, for chefs, in 2021. The app captures real-time information about the quantity, cause, and destination of food waste conveniently, without using a scale – and in as little as 15 seconds – to help our chefs easily address the causes of waste in their kitchens.
🤝 All Bon Appétit cafés are required to be regularly donating food.
Our accounts work with local community partners to divert wholesome, untouched food from entering waste streams. Instead of going to landfill, donated food nourishes community members experiencing food insecurity.
💡 All Bon Appétit cafés must engage in at least one waste awareness campaign per year.
Education and engagement are key strategies to reduce food waste across the board.
Get the deets on our three-pronged approach to waste management at the link in our bio! #FightFoodWaste #FoodWaste #WasteNot #FoodWasteReduction #WasteManagement
Most Recent News
Rapper P-Lo tries Filipino cuisine at Golden State Warriors Arena
Bay Area rapper P-Lo joined our Culinary Director, Kristela Nazario-Mendoza for a Chase Center food tour where they explored their Filipino heritage by tasting dishes around the arena and creating their own custom menu items — Chicken Inasal Skewers and Manila Mule cocktail & mocktail!
Healthy Kids in the Kitchen Returns
Bon Appétit’s Healthy Kids in the Kitchen program returned again this year, hosting students from Solon to learn about healthy foods and choices.
Meet the Chicago Chef Behind the Obama Center’s Food Options
Two years after opening up bids, the Obama Foundation has announced the vendors that will handle the food and beverages for the Obama Presidential Center.
Join Us
We’re always looking for great people to join our teams! If you:
- Get excited when fresh, local produce arrives on your loading dock
- Enjoy creating all-new dishes from scratch
- Love interacting with people through delicious and nutritious food
- Thrive when part of a close-knit team that takes your and others’ safety seriously
- Enjoy helping people reach their full potential, nourishing them through at-work learning opportunities
Then you may be a fit for us!