At Bon Appétit Management Company, food waste is our foe. The 40% of food that goes unsold or uneaten in the United States is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, but it’s more than that.
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Food Hubs: Redefining How Institutions Feed Students and Strengthen Regional Food Systems
On the rise across the country since the mid-2000’s, food hubs are one solution to common barriers to getting local food into restaurants and difficult-to-access institutional markets. With a keen focus on selling to anchor institutions (long-term fixtures in communities, such as universities, hospitals, and school systems, that play vital roles in the local economy), food hubs coordinate the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of locally and regionally produced foods from a network of responsible producers.
Staying Connected to the Sustainable Seafood Movement
The sustainable seafood movement is always evolving, which is why Jenny Slafkosky, Bon Appétit’s communications director, joined Maisie Ganzler, chief strategy and brand officer, in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the end of October for the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions (CASS) annual conference.
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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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On a recent visit to Roger Williams University, our Fellow Elise Dudley and RWU students enjoyed ...
On a recent visit to Roger Williams University, our Fellow Elise Dudley and RWU students enjoyed touring the food hub Farm Fresh Rhode Island (FFRI), a regular supplier to @bonappetit_rwu. As a food hub, FFRI aggregates and distributes food from local farmers. Anything that is cosmetically imperfect ends up in FFRI’s production kitchen — instead of the compost — to be transformed into shelf-stable products.
Food hubs have arisen as one solution to common barriers to getting local food into restaurants and difficult-to-access institutional markets. Read more at the link in our bio about how food hubs are redefining how institutions feed students and strengthen regional food systems in our Fellow Elise Dudley's latest blog based on her experiences visiting multiple food hubs as a Fellow. #LoveBonAppetit #RogerWilliamsUniversity #FarmFreshRI #LocalFood #FoodHub #SustainableFood #RegionalFoodSystems #FarmToTable #SupportLocalFarmers #FoodWaste
We're (unofficially) in the movie food business! 🤩
Our California College of the Arts team brought dishes from famous anime movies to life. Their all-day anime menu featured breakfast, lunch, and dinner specials as part of their series of monthly themed meals!
📸: @bonappetitcca
#LoveBonAppetit #MovieFood #AnimeFood #AnimeCuisine #FoodFromMovies #CaliforniaCollegeOfTheArts #AnimeInspiredFood #FoodArt #FoodCreativity
We're soaking up the last vestiges of fall with classic (and more unique) fall coffee beverages! 🍂 Which drink are you having difficulty letting go of as we enter winter?
📸: @bonappetitwhitman featured pumpkin spice lattes and an apple spice-themed cold press, and @thelighthousessf experimented with their cinnamon bun latte.
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Don’t Let Congress Overturn California’s Animal Welfare Law
Allowing pigs to turn around. It may seem like a modest goal, but it’s taken decades of advocacy for this basic humane standard to become law in California. Yet now, some politicians are doing anything they can to undo this work—including overturning elections—to achieve their goals.
Cafés and Restaurants at the Huntington and Metropolitan Museum of Art Named Among the Nation’s Best
The American Alliance of Museums recently noted the cafés and restaurants at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as among the nation’s best museum eateries.
Bon Appétit Wins Produce Business Most Innovative Dining Outlet Award
Converting Americans’ deficient produce intake and poor dietary habits has proved a formidable feat, but not a fait accompli. This was the impetus propelling the Produce Business industry-nominated award series, which launched this year to honor innovative companies and executives that market and sell produce to drive overall consumption. Bon Appétit Management Company is the inaugural winner in the foodservice category.
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Times may be different, but we’re still hiring! 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!