Food wastage tracking and reporting

Purpose

1. Automate food wastage tracking and reporting in Mandarin restaurants to minimize losses, meet regulations, optimize inventory, and gain actionable insights from automated data collection and analysis.

2. Automatedly capture, log, aggregate, and visualize data on surplus, spoiled, unused, or discarded ingredients and menu items throughout the day, week, or month.

3. Facilitate automated notifications, reporting, and analytics to managers and regional HQ for continuous operational improvements and compliance.

Trigger Conditions

1. Manual entry by staff via mobile/web app forms when food wastage is identified.

2. Automated entry from IoT-connected smart bins or waste trackers placed at disposal points.

3. End-of-shift or daily scheduled automated checks/alerts for wastage reporting deadlines.

4. Barcode or QR scanning at point of disposal for automated logging.

5. API webhooks from POS systems when items are voided, expired, or unsold.

Platform Variants

1. Airtable

- Automate new record creation with Airtable API: POST /v0/{baseId}/{tableName} for wastage log.

2. Google Sheets

- Automated appending of rows via Google Sheets API: spreadsheets.values.append for real-time wastage entries.

3. Microsoft Power Automate

- Automator: ‘When a new response is submitted’ (Form) + ‘Add a row to Excel’ for automated logging.

4. Zapier

- Event-driven automator: Trigger Zap on new form completed, auto-send data to database/API.

5. Slack

- Webhooks automating message posting to a food wastage channel via chat.postMessage API for alerts.

6. Trello

- Automate card creation using Trello API: POST /1/cards with food wastage details.

7. Salesforce

- Automate record creation in custom object via Data API: POST /services/data/vXX.0/sobjects/CustomObject.

8. Notion

- Automated database item insertion using Notion API: PATCH /v1/pages for food waste logs.

9. Monday.com

- Automate item creation with Monday API: mutate create_item to record wastage incident.

10. Smartsheet

- Smartsheet API: POST /sheets/{sheetId}/rows for automated food waste records.

11. Power BI

- Automate dataset refresh/ingestion of waste logs using Power BI REST API: POST /refreshes.

12. Tableau

- Automated Tableau API ingestion via publish datasource endpoint for real-time analytics.

13. Twilio

- Automated SMS alert via Twilio API: POST /Messages for wastage notification to managers.

14. SendGrid

- Automated email reporting via SendGrid Mail Send API: POST /mail/send.

15. Asana

- Create task via Asana API: POST /tasks, automating tracking of food wastage events.

16. ClickUp

- Assign automated tasks using ClickUp API: POST /list/{list_id}/task for auditing wastage.

17. Google Forms

- Automate form-to-sheet connection; API forwarding response data to backend for aggregation.

18. QuickBooks

- Automated expense entry via QuickBooks API: POST /v3/company/{companyId}/expense for records.

19. Freshdesk

- Automate ticket/task creation via Freshdesk Tickets API: POST /api/v2/tickets for wastage issues.

20. HubSpot

- Automated new custom property setting via HubSpot CRM API: PATCH /crm/v3/objects for tracking.

Benefits

1. Automates end-to-end data entry, reducing manual errors and freeing up labor for core kitchen tasks.

2. Enables automated reporting and real-time insights accessible remotely by executives.

3. Streamlines compliance-driven food wastage logs with scheduled and event-driven automations.

4. Supports automatedly-generated action items for chefs and managers based on analytics, driving waste reduction strategies.

5. Provides scalable automatable integration with any point-of-sale or back-office system.