UC Berkeley students are on winter break, but Chuck Davies,Associate Director of Residential Dining, is still reflecting on the fall semester and the lessons learned during the first months of Cal Dinning's food waste prevention project. The program helps kitchen staff at the four residential dining halls on campus track food waste generated during meal preparation, and use the information to reduce or eliminate these pre-consumer discards.
once you pay close attention to your food prep routines and which ones result in the largest amounts of kitchen waste,it's pretty easy to make changes that really affect the bottom line,"concludes Davies."since the program started last August,we have reduced kitchen waste by over a thir.That means we're paying a lot less on food purchases that will just end up as discards-43 as of december 2011'to be exact.
with over 10000 meals served daily,these numbers amount to significant savings for the residential dining halls.S amount to signif