Hotels, casino hotels, standalone conference centers, and convention centers offer food & beverage service through catered banquets and buffets as well as restaurants, commercial buffets, retail outlets, and room-service operations. 

While waste tracking helps in different ways in each area, overall it leads to more efficient batch production, more precise purchasing, smarter merchandising, and development of more accurate order and menu guides.  It also helps production, catering sales, and front-of house teams communicate to avoid waste. 

Additionally, waste tracking enables banquet chefs to differentiate between waste related to guaranteed counts vs. kitchen-driven overproduction.