New program uses visual learning and a fun kickoff event to instruct Centerplate team on which items can and cannot be composted, part of an effort to reduce food waste at the employee cafeteria.
An autonomous food robot called Chef B from vendor Blendid takes onsite and mobile orders for standard and customized smoothies in the Charlie Brown’s Café on the campus of Sonoma State University.
Automated Sally the Robot unit allows the campus meal program to offer customized, healthy choices at times when manual service would not be cost-effective.
University of California-San Francisco Health contracts with a local leftover food pickup service called Copia that uses notable commercial meal delivery concerns as pickup options.
Research shows college students waste 112 pounds each year and that tasting spoons work to reduce waste while entrée plate size, tray availability and staff-portioning seem to have little effect.
