Restaurant365 customers operating over 40,000 locations in the U.S. have reduced food waste in 2024 by nearly $400 million thanks to the restaurant management platform’s inventory, reporting, forecasting and purchasing tools.
“Every dollar matters in a restaurant, and it’s a privilege to partner with thousands of operators across the country to help them become more successful and help the planet by eliminating excess waste,” Restaurant365 Co-founder and Chief Community Officer Morgan Harris said in a company press release.
For Someburros, an 18-unit fast casual Mexican concept in Phoenix, waste-tracking tools helped save thousands of dollars annually on just one ingredient. The company’s commissary produces millions of tacos and taquitos each year, and analysis revealed that nearly 10% of its tortilla purchases were being wasted.
“They were sticking together and ripping, making the tortillas unusable,” Someburros CFO Kevin Kruft said in the release. “Anytime you’re able to identify a source of waste and cut it is huge, and we were able to go back to purveyor, tell them this wasn’t working for us and began to work on a solution.”
Ultimately, Someburros cut tortilla waste by over $13,000 a year, in just one of the hundreds of ingredients it uses. Kruft said the savings across the business are instrumental in its growth plans as it looks to open at least four locations in 2025.
