Google’s food waste goals are set on a 2025 timeline, which is tighter than the 2030 deadlines tied to many of its other sustainability efforts.
An employee sits in the cafeteria of Google’s Washington headquarters, Jan. 8, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Like other Silicon Valley giants retrenching amid financial uncertainty, Google has cut thousands of jobs since January 2023. But the company is also accelerating changes within its lavish corporate cafeterias — a longtime lure for tech employees — that will both reduce costs and cut the company’s food waste.
Serving more than 240,000 meals a day, the 386 cafes that make up Google’s global foodservice operations outnumber the world’s approximately 360 Cheesecake Factory Inc. locations. Google also operates more than 1,500 microkitchens and 49 food trucks for employees. At this scale, the tech giant is essentially running a restaurant company. That means its experiments offer clues for how other foodservice companies could approach efforts to trim carbon footprints or slash costs.
Food waste has been a focal point in Google’s sustainability efforts because it is a major contributor to global emissions: By some estimates, it’s responsible for about 8% of all human-caused greenhouse gases.In an internal memo last year reported by Business Insider, the company directly linked the environmental and financial benefits of initiatives like closing underused microkitchens and cafes as hybrid schedules reduce foot traffic.
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