As we celebrate “Stop Food Waste Day 2024”, restaurant brands across the nation are actively seeking innovative ways to reduce waste across their operations. Food waste stands out as one of the most significant challenges in the restaurant industry, presenting operators with a crucial obstacle to overcome. Per a Move For Hunger report, restaurant brands in the United States alone generate roughly 22 to 33 billion pounds of food waste each year.
22 to 33B
pounds of
waste each year
Although food waste seemingly comes with the territory of operating a successful enterprise restaurant, owners and operators can leverage tried and true technology like back-office management solutions to mitigate its negative effects. In fact, reports indicate every dollar spent on these solutions achieves approximately 8 dollars in cost savings.
$1 spent on back-office solutions = $8 in cost savings
Back-office management solutions like PAR Data Central are essential to combating and limiting food waste at your restaurant. PAR Data Central is a maintenance-free back-office management solution that provides restaurant brands with essential capabilities – like food and inventory management, forecasting, and enterprise reporting – needed for curbing this challenge. By leveraging PAR Data Central, restaurant brands can produce fresher, safer, and faster food as well as create higher-margin food experiences with less waste.
Here is how PAR Data Central can help your restaurant brand support this year’s “Stop Food Waste Day”:
Leverage Inventory Insights
Actionable Enterprise Reporting
Drive Consistency with Forecasting, Predictive Ordering, and Recipe Management
Another essential PAR Data Central feature that empowers restaurant brands to curb food waste is its forecasting capabilities. PAR Data Central’s forecasting capabilities ensure restaurant brands never have to worry about over-ordering stock. Operators can order the perfect amount of inventory for every delivery in coordination with historical consumption, sales forecasts, vendor delivery schedules, thaw and prep times, and ingredient-level tracking. This capability automatically determines inventory needs, suggests adjustments, and integrates with vendors to fulfill all orders. Additionally, as menu items are prepared and sold to customers, inventory levels automatically adjust in coordination with the ingredients used from the chosen menu item. This ensures that forecasted inventory levels are accurate at all times and saves operators valuable time and money.
Reducing food waste is crucial for the success of your restaurant, and leveraging back-office solutions like PAR Data Central can make a significant difference. This “Stop Food Waste Day”, take proactive measures to minimize waste with PAR Data Central. By harnessing its powerful capabilities, your restaurant brand can operate prosperously while handling food waste with the utmost importance.
