The New York Times
The New York Times published a Q&A on 15 May 2024 with Megan Morikawa, global director of sustainability at Iberostar Group, which operates 97 hotels across 14 countries and serves around 45 million meals a year. Discussing the company's food waste efforts, Morikawa told interviewer Elisabeth Goodridge, "with our partnership with Winnow, an A.I. waste management company, we have placed devices in our kitchens that have an A.I.-assisted camera and scale that allows for chefs to spend the first month or so training the model on what the camera is seeing," after which "the system automatically registers what is being wasted." She said the resulting data helps Iberostar track economic and carbon footprint losses and adjust how kitchens produce food the next day. Winnow's technology is one of several sustainability initiatives covered in the wide-ranging interview, which also discussed Iberostar's coral research labs and its shift away from single-use plastics.
