Food Waste – Need to pay serious attention!

The Quantum of Food waste from Hotels & Restaurants Is now assumed serious proportions considering the exponential increase in Urbanization of population across the world. While the Western world has in many ways grappled this issue over the last few decades by bringing the topic onto the main stream conversation in the society and creating huge awareness leading to an institutional drive to curb wastage of Food in all public eateries, It is now our turn here in India rapidly with massive migration of educated young population to the big Cities and towns eventually settling down with lucrative jobs triggering huge consumption and resultant wastage too.

Its rather paradoxical that the biggest threat to public health in most of our cities is the generation of tons of Garbage piled up all over the housing and business Hubs of every city. The challenges are multi -fold in terms of the cause & effect of uncontrolled production, insensitive wastage of cooked food either over plated or excess cooking and worse still is dumping them onto Garbage dumps so visible in most of housing colonies and uptown Business enclaves.

Apart from the macro scenario affecting the entire populace, there are many other related issues which confront the catering industry in general. Among those concerns are the environmental impact - large amount of food cooked (irreversible chemical process) thus becoming organic waste which could easily have been preserved if the excess quantity was not cooked.