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 ...

Cruise ships are known for their epic buffet spreads, but once the plates are cleared and everyone's full, the leftover food ...

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Commercial kitchens face a massive, expensive challenge: food waste. Every year, the U.S. throws away $382 billion wor ...

If you’ve ever wondered why grocery bills feel higher each month, part of the answer lies in America’s staggering food waste problem. Between 30% and 40% of the national food supply is wasted annually ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...