Most Food Waste Never Reaches a Plate

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of food waste in hospitality and how better data can help reduce it.

Get in touch - leave me a message What if one of the most effective climate tech moves in hospitality isn’t flashy at all, but simply wasting less food with far better data? In this episode, I’m joined by Olaf van der Veen, co-founder of Orbisk, to unpack a climate tech story that sits right at the intersection of decarbonisation, operational control, and the energy transition. We talk about food waste, but this is bigger than leftovers. It’s about hidden system failure, margin pressure, emis...

People in this episode

Host: Tom Raftery

Guest: Olaf van der Veen

Topics covered

• food waste
• climate tech
• hospitality
• decarbonisation
• operational control
• energy transition

Keywords

• food waste
• climate tech
• hospitality
• decarbonisation
• energy transition
• operational control
• data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Orbisk

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