A new white paper, Customizable Portions: A Cost-Conscious Approach to Reducing Plate Waste, takes a hard look at food waste that comes from the front-of-the-house and what we can do about it. It’s the result of interviews, surveys and pilot testing from Georgetown University’s Portion Balance Coalition, the Earth Commons Institute, the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC) and ReFED.
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