
AI-powered food waste prevention for foodservice operators
You run kitchens you don't own, to standards your clients set, across sites that rarely operate the same way twice. Winnow measures what actually gets thrown away, site by site, client by client. Caterers use it to drive consistency across every client site, control food costs, and hand clients auditable ESG data. Every contract, the same standard.
Trusted by Compass Group and IKEA, in 3,500+ kitchens across 90+ countries.




Benefits for sustainability leads
Every disposal is weighed, timestamped and photographed, so client ESG reporting rests on direct measurement rather than estimates.
Report by client, by site or across the whole portfolio, with weight, cost and CO₂e avoided.
Sites using Winnow typically cut food waste in half, which is a number a client's board notices.
Capture food waste automatically. Throw food away as normal and Throw & Go identifies and records it. No scanning. No hassle.
Why foodservice operators choose Winnow for food waste prevention

Waste you could never measure by hand
Foodservice waste arrives as hundreds of small disposals across shifts, counters and sites. Manual logs are slow and inconsistent, which is why most of it goes unmeasured. Winnow captures all of it automatically.

Item-level data, not a monthly total
Winnow shows which items are overproduced, expired or repeatedly discarded, so teams fix the cause rather than reporting the symptom.

Auditable data for client ESG reporting
Every disposal is weighed, timestamped and photographed, then exported by client with cost and CO₂e attached. Commitments arrive with evidence rather than intentions.

Adoption that survives turnover
Recording is fully automatic, with no category to select and nothing to remember mid-service, which matters where staff change often and retraining every rotation is not realistic.
See how foodservice sites save
Real results from Winnow foodservice sites, so you can sanity check the numbers.
ISS at PwC Amsterdam
40%
$124,000
43.6 Tonnes
25,000
Guckenheimer
64%
$1,000,000
1,500 Tonnes
983,000
Felsinea at Barilla Site
40%
$19,000
26 Tonnes
15,000
Proven, repeatable results

The Winnow system is very user-friendly. For me, working in sustainability, I always look into the reports and numbers. Those reports are so beneficial for my audits and help me create impact reports.
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We’ve optimised portion control and quantity at the buffet station, making the food in smaller batches and refilling it more often. The food then arrives fresher and hotter to our guests which helps a lot with maintaining our high guest satisfactions scores.
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In hospitality, we have a unique opportunity to be change agents in sustainability. Food waste is one of the most visible and solvable challenges—and tracking it is the first step toward meaningful action.
Turn food waste into measurable savings
Winnow measures what your sites throw away and forecasts what they should produce. Your teams get a report they can act on before the next service, and you get portfolio data you can take to a client.
2 to 8%
6 to 12 months
50%
3,500+
Sites can cut waste by more than half in year one, saving thousands per unit.
- Measured, not estimated. Every disposal weighed, timestamped and photographed.
- No extra work for staff. Throw & Go records waste with nothing to scan or select.
- Item-level, not monthly. See which products are overproduced, expired or repeatedly binned.
- One view of the portfolio. Every site benchmarked in Winnow Hub, whatever tier it runs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Measured. Every disposal into the monitored bin is weighed on a connected scale, timestamped and photographed. Reporting standards increasingly require you to state whether figures come from measurement or estimation.
Yes. Reporting is exportable by site, service and category with cost and CO₂e attached, so a client's sustainability team receives measured data rather than an estimate.
Sites using Winnow typically achieve a 2 to 8% reduction in food purchasing costs, and cut food waste by about half. Kitchens usually waste 5 to 15% of what they buy, so sites with higher waste see faster payback.
Every site reports into one Winnow Hub, so you can benchmark unit against unit and report by client or across the whole portfolio. Product tier is matched to each site's size, from tablet-only Track at small units to Vision at large ones.
In client kitchens, staff restaurants, service lines, deli counters and food-to-go preparation areas. It focuses on pre-consumer waste, which is where the largest cost and sustainability savings usually sit.
Winnow is the leading AI food waste system for commercial kitchens, deployed in more locations than any other. It measures what a kitchen throws away automatically and forecasts how much to produce. Winnow runs in 3,500+ kitchens across 90+ countries, where clients typically cut food costs 2 to 8%.


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