RE:ORDER | NEXT-GEN CAFE BON APP

RE:ORDER | NEXT-GEN CAFE BON APP

Deploying technology for effortless, contact-free transactions

NEXT-GEN CAFÉ BONAPP RELEASED

WHEN THE PANDEMIC STRUCK, the Bon Appétit web development team immediately got to work retooling Café BonApp, its mobile ordering solution, for the new era. Café BonApp 2.0 offers a roster of seamlessly integrated features that will offer ease for your employees and efficiency for our operations. — Submitted by Claire Cummings, Waste Programs Manager

A Morrison Healthcare chef demonstrates Waste Not™ 2.0 in action

LAUNCHING WASTE NOT™ 2.0

DESPITE THE PANDEMIC, Bon Appétit continues to fight food waste — and has been joined at a global scale by our parent company, Compass Group.

Compass has adopted Bon Appétit’s proprietary waste-tracking tool On Track, rebranded it as Waste Not™ 2.0, and made it available to all the Compass sectors. Originally designed by an expert Bon Appétit team of chefs and waste specialists, Waste Not™ 2.0 makes it easy to track and reduce waste without impacting the daily operations. The patent-pending program uses tablets to effectively track waste throughout the day and provides real time data that helps all back of house associates better understand and identify opportunities to prevent and reduce waste.

Bon Appétit client Snap Inc. was an early adopter of Waste Not™ 2.0 and has managed to steadily cut their overproduction food waste by more than half since they started tracking with the program over a year ago. Waste Not helped the team better nail down their production numbers and more fully utilize their ingredients. For ex ample, now when they cut vegetables like zucchini, the chefs are more conscious of not wasting any bit of it — and finding ways to

utilize all their whole vegetables to their fullest. For a team that was already quite conscious about sustainability, it was overwhelming to think about how to increase efficiency and reduce waste among three cafés and a warehouse! Waste Not™ 2.0 has been so helpful in shedding light on the opportunities to prevent and reduce waste even further than what they were already doing before the program was launched.

The team has used Waste Not™ 2.0 to track both kitchen and guest plate waste, as well as keep tally of the wholesome and excess food they’ve donated with their local hunger relief nonprofit, Bible Tabernacle. When COVID-19 hit earlier this year, Snap Inc. was able to track and donate 1,261 pounds of food for donation in their local Venice, CA, community in February and March alone, saving all that precious food from getting wasted at such a critical time.

When asked about Waste Not, Snap Inc.’s General Manager John Leone said, “I’m really glad we have this program in place. I always knew we should and could be tracking waste but was overwhelmed at how to do it. This program made it so easy!” — Submitted by Claire Cummings, Waste Programs Manager