Companies that we serve, like Google and Twitter, are working with organizations like San Francisco-based Food Runners to reduce waste and deliver food to those in need

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Reducing Food Waste Across the Nation, One Campus at a Time
- News Compass Group
Early on, the Food Recovery Network partnered with Bon Appétit Management Company and Chartwells Higher Education, and through working together, FRN has rapidly spread to Compass accounts across the country

Seattle’s Mandated Composting Program Enlists Restaurants to Reduce Waste
- News Foodable
For restaurant owners, the popular compost program provides some unexpected benefits, such as reducing food waste, enhancing community, and improving the bottom line.

Weighing in on Campus Food Waste
- News FoodTank
Willamette University’s Food Recovery Network chapter partnered with Bon Appétit to organize a Weigh the Waste event to communicate just how much food is wasted every day, at every meal

Imperfect Produce Scores A Second Chance
- News Growing Produce
Our Imperfectly Delicious Produce program has created partnerships with growers across the country, like the Church Brothers, who supply their blemished or otherwise imperfect produce to Bon Appétit chefs.

This Is What Tech Companies Do With Leftover Free Food
- News BuzzFeed News
This is what our cafés at Google, Twitter, Uber, LinkedIn, and Genentech are doing to prevent food waste.

Free Food for Tech Employees Goes to Waste
- News BuzzFeed News
To combat waste, Bon Appétit hired a waste specialist who doubled the amount of food recovered in her first year and announced ambitious companywide goals for food recovery by 2018.

The Beauty of Ugly Food: You Won’t Believe How Much Edible Food We’re Wasting
- News AlterNet
Waste Specialist Claire Cummings has seen shocking amounts of produce get wasted on farms. Through our Imperfectly Delicious Produce program, our chefs have saved over 126 tons of food.

Why the Anti-Food-Waste Movement Matters
- News SAVEUR
Our Waste Specialist Claire Cummings wins a 2015 Good Taste Award from SAVEUR Magazine for her incredible work assisting our cafés and restaurants in setting up food recovery and launching the Imperfectly Delicious program.

The Good and the Bad of Saving the Ugly
- News Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
Food waste fighters are starting to embrace imperfect produce, but does it make financial sense for farmers? Waste Specialist Claire Cummings shares how we figure out systems that are sustainable for everyone involved.