Lean Management Approach to Reduce Waste in HoReCa Food Services

The potential of food preservation to reduce food waste.

While we state it seems unthinkable to throw away nearly a third of the food we produce, we still continue to overlook that we are all very much part of this problem because we all consume meals. The amount of food wasted clearly has an impact on our view of what we think a sustainable meal is and our research suggests food waste is a universal function that can help us determine the sustainabi...

Lean information management: Understanding and eliminating waste

This paper deals with the development of a new approach for supporting the improvement of information management and the overall information systems infrastructure. In particular, the paper discusses the application of lean thinking to information management; where information management can be considered to involve adding value to information by virtue of how it is organised, visualised and re...

Reducing Waste in Administrative Services with Lean Principles

In the last few decades, lean techniques have been developed for removing with waste in manufacturing. More recently, lean is used outside the manufacturing context as well. This article focuses on using lean thinking for reducing waste in administrative services, i.e., business services with information as input and output. This article delivers three innovations in this field: 1) a lean appro...

“BCN Comparteix El Menjar” [Barcelona Shares Its Food], A Food Waste Reduction Model of HORECA Sector in Barcelona

Working against food waste is key to reduce hunger and to improve food sustainability. One third of the edible parts of the foods produced for human consumption are wasted, what represents 1.300 millions of tonnes per year worldwide. From those, 11 millions of tones come from food services, such as hotels, restaurants and caterings, sector in Europe. At the same time, the current economic crisi...

From Waste to Resource Management: Reinventing Waste Contracts and Services