Chefs and guests are increasingly aware of the amount of food being wasted in restaurants. Perfectly good food is being thrown away which costs money and costs the planet.
We work with chefs and cooks to help them run their kitchen more efficiently, reduce waste and, importantly, save money.
Reducing waste touches every stage of the food service cycle: from purchasing and storage, to food preparation to even encouraging guests to take home their leftovers.
Our Wise Up on Waste Service contains a step-by-step waste audit, menu ideas that use frequently wasted ingredients and simple techniques that make kitchens more efficient and less wasteful.
NEW for June 2013, we’ve made the audit, ideas and tools even more convenient for chefs to use with the Wise Up On Waste app – Available now in apple store, google play and as a web version for Blackberry.
Every year UK food service operators generate 600,000 tons of food waste*. Two-thirds of which could be avoided through better management, portion sizes and preparation.
We’re leading the United Against Waste coalition in UK with customers like Sodexo, 3663 and Whitbread.
With our Wise up on Waste Service we help chefs and cooks to reduce waste by up to 20%, corresponding to a potential saving of nearly 368 tons of food waste per year*.
*WRAP, The Composition of Waste Disposed by the Hospitality Industry, 2011
We also reduce the waste associated with the disposal of our own products. We will continue to reduce, reuse, recycle and eliminate as much packaging as possible.
Packaging plays a key role in protecting our products. It makes sure they retain their quality ready for use. But packaging can also end up as waste in landfill, or as litter.
Our aim is to halve the waste associated with the disposal of our products by 2020. We have numerous programs running to reduce, reuse and recycle our packaging.
Knorr Create More Sauces
Colman's Condiments and Mustards
Colman’s has reduced the amount of packaging going to landfill by 20% by choosing a lighter bottle and changing cases from plastic to cardboard.
To find out more about Colman's Condiments and Mustards, please click here: Colman´s
*Savings calculated by taking the cases sold in 2011 of 2L cases and measuring this against the packaging of the new 2.25L case. The saving expressed in this calculation assumes that the volume in 2011 and 2012 will be the same or greater.
Knorr Bouillon Paste UK & Ireland
10% less plastic
11% less paper
18% less wood…in comparison to the old format (pre 2012)
