By outfitting the (organic) waste bin in restaurants with the Orbisk monitoring equipment (a weighing scale and a intelligent camera unit) and then interpretation by means of AI image recognition technology, we enable absolute frictionless registration of what food is going to waste, on a very detailed level (1000 ingredient classes). Moreover, by including the context of the waste action - such as the food being thrown away from a pan, a cutting board or a plate - we can identify in what part of the food providing process the food was lost. This information can then be used to recognize, address and optimize the inefficiencies in the restaurant process. By means of action oriented dashboarding we can help you to balance portions, optimize stocking and plan more efficiently, resulting in savings up to 70%. Most tangibly, this will result in significant economic value due to savings on your buying, an annual saving of €15.000 - 50.000 and up, plus saving 4000 kgs and up of edible food! Indirectly, the restaurant will also be saving on personnel and waste disposal + utility cost, which are harder to quantify but will generally double the savings on buying still. Most importantly though, this way food waste can be prevented as opposed to reappropriated, annually saving over 4,000 kilos of food of going to waste, preventing the emission of 15 tons of CO2 and 14M liters of water use. Our ambition to grow to 300 locations in 2020 has the potential of preventing 1.2M kg of food annually, after that the sky is the limit!

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• Netherlands

• Remote and rural communities

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