News: Food Waste & Recovery

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.