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Kitchen Waste Management System

In a busy managed catering facility monitoring waste food costs and subsequently adjusting order quantities, changing some working practices or involving staff in additional training programmes can produce significant savings in food costs - the first steps in a proactive campaign to reduce costs involve monitoring waste costs and understanding the underlying causes.

The Solution

Thomas Findlay have developed, and successfully deployed, a monitoring and reporting system which combines simplicity and speed of use for kitchen crew with accurate and detailed management reporting - a  weigh scale and associated electronics located in the kitchen area is used to weigh the waste food and to enter a “loss code” indicating the reason for wastage.

 


Data from each weighing is then collated at a facility manager’s PC and, on a weekly basis, used to generate an Excel spreadsheet detailing the overall waste food cost along with a variety of breakdown detail, a “trend” graph and a bar graph illustration of the overall reasons for loss.

 


The system operates either with “one kitchen-one manager” or where one supervisor manages several kitchens, results from a number of kitchens can easily be combined into a single top-level report.

 

Straightforward Management Operation

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Each unit manager carries a key ring memory device (stainless steel, waterproof, shockproof) which is used to collect data from the kitchen scale at any time.


A simple-to-use report generator program, combined with a dedicated keyring reader, generates a detailed waste report in industry standard format for printing, emailing, circulation and archiving.

 

3 step kitchen crew operation

1. Place the food waste container on the scale
2. Touch one key to select reason for loss
3. Scale collates the following data:-

  • Time and date of weighing
  • Net weight
  • Loss code

 

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Detailed Spreadsheet Reporting

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The system generates a detailed spreadsheet breakdown  of waste dfata for the current period including the following details:-

  • Analysis of Reason for loss
  • Cost breakdown
  • Trend analysis
  • Breakdown by shift
  • Weekly summary and dailt drilldown reports

 

 

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