AI Helps Restaurants Reduce Waste
How startup Orbisk uses artificial intelligence to help restaurants reduce food waste back of house.
Restaurant kitchens are notorious generators of food waste—an average of tens of thousands of pounds a year. That fact begged for an innovative solution from Olaf van der Veen and his partners.
So, in 2019, the trio of digital-tech entrepreneurs founded Orbisk in the Netherlands with one purpose: provide foodservice operators with precise information on what they throw away, and when, and ideas for making reductions.
Orbisk, the app they invented, utilizes AI-powered computer vision to deter…
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