Rising ingredient costs, shifting dining habits, and a persistent operational blind spot are driving significant losses for ...

The United States has a festering food waste problem going largely unnoticed. In 2021, according to the nonprofit ReFED, 91 million tons of food – half still edible – were thrown away. Only 2% was ...

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Turns out, Americans are throwing away a lot of perfectly usable food.

On a special episode (first released on November 13, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: While the U.S. is, on the whole, a wealthy country, currently one in eight Americans is food insecure. Meanwhile, ...

Afresh just raised $34 million to expand its AI tools that help supermarkets cut food waste. Grocery stores waste around four million tons of food in the U.S. each year—mostly fresh food, since it’s ...

Food containers, vacuum sealers, and dehydrators are the solution to saving money on groceries and eliminating food waste.

Tucked away on the kitchen countertop sits a bubbling, living goop in a jar. Each day, a mixture of flour and water feeds the beige concoction, commencing a ritualistic dance that summons wild yeast ...

You've probably seen it before—leftover food that could have been used, just being thrown away at a restaurant. It happens more often than you think. Every year, restaurants generate millions of tons ...

Aussies are making simple mistakes during the ordering of salads, pizzas, buckets of chicken, burgers, and fries, and it’s ...