{"id":18648,"date":"2015-05-15T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18648"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:11:45","slug":"the-waste-biz-restaurant-food-waste-management-technology-receives-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-waste-biz-restaurant-food-waste-management-technology-receives-seed-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waste Biz: Restaurant Food Waste Management Technology Receives Seed Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve ever spent any time at all in a restaurant kitchen<\/a>, you know things move fast. There should be a very good reason for any task added to the workload, and it better not take much time! So, food waste<\/a> management often gets overlooked: taking the time to measure what’s going into the trash slows down everything else. But seeing how food waste costs these businesses money – \u00a32.5 billion ($3.95 billion US) annually in the UK alone –\u00a0reducing it represents an environmental and economic imperative.<\/p>\n

British startup Winnow<\/a> knows that measuring food waste is key to managing it, and has developed a smart meter and computer app that work within the fast pace of a commercial kitchen. Take a look at their overview of their product:<\/p>\n