WIN-WIN: THE SUSTAINABLE AND PROFITABLE WAY TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE

According to the report 2018 from WRAP, the UK produces 9.5m tonnes of food waste once food has left the farm. This waste costs £19bn and more than 25 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions! WRAP also said that of this waste, 6.4 million tonnes could have been eaten — the equivalent of over 15 billion meals! And hospitality & food service contributes 1.1 million tonnes (12%).

For those in catering and hospitality operations, there are plenty of opportunities to reduce waste –from peeling vegetables more efficiently to judging portion sizes better to stock management.

The first step is to be able to measure waste, in other words –obtain a baseline of how much you are currently generating. Once this figure is obtained, you can consider how to reduce waste and track the effectiveness of any initiatives you put in place.

Use our food waste tool! At Pelican, our Pi system developers have created a new, practical tool.

Matt Ferris Pi Product Manager

The development was initiated by a request from a client who was keen to reduce their food waste; they tried another tool but found that it didn’t meet their full requirements and was very expensive.

So how can our Pi system help you?

Pi can measure and track two types of food waste: (1) waste created during meal preparation, (2) cooked food waste. The former includes vegetable peelings, while the latter covers items left over on a servery, generally due to overproduction. You can also measure food coming back on the plate, allowing for tighter portion control.

Organisations participating in a Food Waste Reduction Roadmap initiative across the UK have achieved measured savings of £365m by saving 251,000 tonnes of

You can now measure, record and cost your food waste quickly and efficiently.

Waste is simply weighed at the end of service or the end of the day, and the amount is entered into the food waste tool. Alternatively, if whole portions are lost due to incorrect cooking or overproduction the number of those portions can be entered.

Our clients can configure the system to choose what to monitor and measure. And as this tool is part of the Pi system, other data is automatically harvested. For example, you can record portions of a recipe and Pi will automatically calculate the cost!

Pi offers more benefits! The Pi system covers a range of other modules, including online ordering, menu and allergen management, stock and waste management, budget control, gross profit tracking, invoice management and payment, and management reporting. These modules work seamlessly together, providing consistent data and insight across the business and saving time by reducing administrative errors.

The system receives live data directly from suppliers, ensuring businesses can access the most up-to-date information and forecast effectively.

Our clients receive full support from our in-house team in setting up the system, training and ongoing support. Best of all, the new waste management and the whole Pi system suite come at no cost for all Pelican clients.

We are here to help.

If you would like to see all the benefits the system can offer you, simply book a demo by contacting us at: hello@pelicanprocurement.co.uk 01252 705 214