ROI Elements
LeanPath delivers powerful ROI
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Financial ROI: There is Big Money to Be Saved in Food Waste
Food Cost Savings
We target a 2-4% savings on food purchases after implementing our food waste tracking system. Our customers achieve this savings because, quite simply, food waste tracking drives change. Teams manage the things they measure, and once they start tracking food waste every day it raises awareness, creates accountability, and provides information to aid problem solving. Combined with a methodical goal-setting process, our customers quickly reduce food waste and food costs.
That's $20,000-$40,000 per million spent each year, easily providing resources for other priorities or the bottom line.
Every customer's results will vary, but we have six years of history and extensive empirical data to support the target range (many customers exceed the range, sometimes dramatically).
A note about composting: Composting is a great practice, but it is at the bottom of the EPA's food waste recovery hierarchy, well-below the source reduction strategy from LeanPath. You can only obtain food cost savings from a prevention effort with tracking, not from composting.
Disposal Cost Savings
Every ton of food waste you prevent at the source is a ton you don't have to pay your garbage hauler or compost hauler to remove.
Enhanced Staff Efficiency
When you prevent food waste at the source, you allow staff to focus on preparing and producing only the items you need. They operate more efficiently as a result.
Environmental ROI: Reducing Food Waste is Green & Sustainable
Financial ROI is the starting point. Yet there are significant environmental benefits linked to use of LeanPath systems, too.
Reduce Upstream Food System Impacts
By minimizing food waste, an operator places less burden on the "upstream" food system including growers & ranchers. The food system has a massive carbon footprint and most of this comes from agricultural production which uses many petroleum-based inputs: fertilizer, herbicide, pesticide, tractor fuel, animal feed etc. Bottom-line: If we minimize food waste, we reduce the pressure on this system.
Reduce Downstream Food System Impacts
Food waste in landfills produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas many times more powerful than carbon dioxide. By reducing food waste, we prevent it from going to the landfill and creating these harmful emissions.
Social ROI: People Care About Food Waste
Front-line teams do not enjoy waste or seek to create it. They don't waste at home. A focused food waste reduction program offers a unique opportunity to engage teams in purposeful work to make an operation stronger.
The concept and the work involved is truly simple. The benefits, however, of thinking through these choices for the individual contributor, is what makes the program work. The training helps each person think through what they are doing. It helps each employee become engaged in the day's work. ~ Customer Comment
The concept and the work involved is truly simple. The benefits, however, of thinking through these choices for the individual contributor, is what makes the program work. The training helps each person think through what they are doing. It helps each employee become engaged in the day's work. ~ Customer Comment
