005: Creating Positive Change through Tech: Sustainability, Food Loss & Customer Access with Maisie Ganzler
Essential Ingredients Podcast
English - October 19, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 18.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsNutrition Health & Fitness Business Entrepreneurship Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
“It makes you much more aware and [you] value each of those items as you build them back into your pantry and your repertoire.”-Maisie Ganzler
Episode Description:
Bon Appétit Management Company / BAM Co is a restaurant company that offers full food-service management in more than 1000 cafés in 33 states. Its mission is to weave in "culinary expertise and commitment to socially responsible practices." The chefs of BAM Co. create heavenly menus from scratch and follow strict kitchen standards to ensure health and sustainability. Maisie Ganzler is the Chief Strategy and Brand Officer of BAM Co. The company has successfully ramped up its tech development. In this episode, Maisie shares how they were able to utilize technology to provide their customers ease of access as they scan the menu, optimize menuing standards and balance, reduce food loss while multiplying impact, and empower their chefs to make better decisions.
Connect with Maisie Ganzler:
Maisie Ganzler is the chief strategy and brand officer at Bon Appétit Management Company (BAM Co), where she oversees the company’s strategic initiatives, purchasing policies, culinary development, marketing, and communications.
For more than 20 years with Bon Appétit, Maisie has been instrumental in the company’s efforts to deliver “food service for a sustainable future” in the areas of local purchasing, sustainable seafood, animal welfare, responsible antibiotics use, climate change, farmworkers’ rights, and waste reduction in accordance with the company’s mission to educate people about how their food choices affect the global environment and local economies.
She is an adviser to the Equitable Food Initiative, Fair Trade Colleges & Universities, the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, Food System 6 Accelerator, Food What?, and Juma Ventures.
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Episode Highlights:
00:53 Figuring How To Serve Food In This New World
05:12 The Curated App
07:28 The Impact Of Food Standards Dashboard
11:28 Menu Engineering
14:28 The Impact Of Food To The Planet
17:43 To the Next Level