Why have a box?

 

• UK restaurants waste 600,000 tonnes of food a year.
• 600,000 tonnes of food a year equates to 21 tonnes per restaurant.
• 21 tonnes per restaurant is the weight of three double decker buses.
• Plate waste accounts to 34% of all food waste within the average restaurant
• Take Me Home boxes help reduce plate waste by encouraging consumers to take away uneaten portions to be eaten later
• Waste can be preventing by promoting the use of take home boxes
• A 20% reduction of food waste in an average restaurants could result in; £2000 savings through using food that would normally be discarded and between £150 -£1700 savings on waste collection costs
• 74% of respondents as part of a consumer food waste study were in favour of being offered a container to take their leftovers home
• Reducing customers plate waste can helps restaurant to ; Save money, gain positive PR and enhance your businesses cooperate social responsibility activities and deliver what customers want
• Wasted food purchases, food waste collection and labour can cost a restaurant up to £20,000 a year.
• Sending good food to landfill wastes more the just food, one burger in landfill might only release a couple of hundred grams of C02 but its production foot print will be closer to 5kg of CO2 e2.
• 21% of food is lost by spoilage in restaurants.
• 45% of food is wasted through the food preparation stage
• 34% is through plate wastage, diners not finishing their meal
• The Take Me Home box, is one stage of reducing food waste in the commercial sector and will hopefully start your journey to reducing cost and mitigating food waste.