Best Restaurant Food Waste Tracking Software (2026)

Orbisk is an automated food-waste monitoring system for professional kitchens: a plug-and-play camera-and-scale device ("Orbi") uses AI image recognition to identify and weigh discarded food, feeding dashboards that help kitchens cut waste and report on cost and CO2. It is aimed at restaurants, hotels and multi-site hospitality groups with sustainability and food-cost goals.

LeanPath is a food-waste prevention platform pairing in-kitchen smart trackers (scale, camera, touchscreen with AI auto-classification) with cloud analytics and coaching. It serves enterprise and high-volume foodservice operators such as hotels, healthcare, universities and contract caterers aiming to cut food waste 50%+.

Too Good To Go is the world's largest surplus-food marketplace, where restaurants, bakeries, grocers and other food businesses sell unsold food to consumers as discounted 'Surprise Bags' via its app. For operators it functions as a food-waste-reduction and revenue-recovery channel, and it offers a separate Platform/AI product for larger retailers to forecast and manage surplus across stores.

Winnow is an AI-powered food-waste prevention system for commercial kitchens that uses computer vision to automatically recognize and record waste as it is discarded. It is built for high-volume operations such as hotels, contract caterers, casinos and cruise lines that want to cut food cost and waste at scale.

KITRO is an AI-powered food-waste tracking solution for commercial kitchens that uses a camera-and-scale device (TARE) to automatically photograph, weigh and classify food as it is thrown away. It is built for hotels, restaurants, canteens, hospitals and care homes that want to cut food cost and waste without adding manual logging work for staff.

Goodr is a US technology-and-logistics company that helps restaurants, stadiums, offices, hospitals and grocers divert surplus food from landfill by recovering edible food for donation and recycling inedible food. Its platform tracks every pickup with real-time impact reporting and provides tax-deduction documentation for the donated food.

Positive Carbon is an automated food-waste monitoring solution for hospitality kitchens that uses an AI- and LiDAR-based sensor (Scrappy) to identify and measure food as it is discarded. It is built for hotels, restaurants, stadiums, workplace canteens and hospitals that want detailed waste reporting without adding manual work for kitchen staff.

Phenix is a French anti-waste company offering technology and services that help food businesses redirect unsold stock away from the bin. Its Phenix Pro tools let supermarkets, producers and foodservice operators donate surplus to charities, sell discounted baskets to consumers via the Phenix app, manage expiry dates and route inedible waste to animal feed or composting.