Food Waste in Hospitality Operations: Opportunities for Sustainable Management

This book provides a critical, systemic analysis of the challenge of food waste and its drivers in hospitality operations. It reviews existing approaches to mitigating food waste in catering services and highlights best practices in effective mitigation. It also discusses the determinants of the broader adoption of effective approaches to food-waste management across the sector and within the various geographical markets of out-of-home food consumption.This book is suitable for academics in the hospitality and tourism field as well as for professionals such as hotel and restaurant managers. It can also be used in undergraduate and postgraduate classes in hospitality management.

Viachaslau Filimonau is a principal lecturer in hospitality management at the Faculty of Management at Bournemouth University, United Kingdom. His research interests include sustainable mobilities, water and carbon footprint management in tourism and hospitality operations, and environmental management in tourism and hospitality enterprises.