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José Andrés Group Collabs With Copia To Fight Food Waste
Image courtesy of José Andrés // Illustration by Kate Walker
The José Andrés Group (JAG), the global restaurant group formed by renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés, has officially partnered with food-redistribution platform Copia.
The Big Bite: José Andrés has become famous for his willingness to show up wherever there’s wide-scale hunger, feeding civilians on the ground when no other aid reaches them. With the Copia partnership, he’s moving one step closer toward building a global pipeline to address food insecurity.
Behind The Plates: Copia handles the logistics of collecting excess prepared food from restaurants and corporate dining brands, then redistributes it to local nonprofits they’re matched with.
Three of JAG’s restaurants have already been using Copia — the Ritz-Carlton South Beach in Florida, the Ritz-Carlton in New York’s NoMad neighborhood, and Mercado Little Spain in New York’s Hudson Yards. A location in Washington, DC, will join next.
Since using Copia, JAG has already donated almost 4,000 pounds of food — the equivalent of “3,292 meals, the prevention of 12,165 pounds of CO2e emissions, and the conservation of more than 900,000 gallons of water.”
Future Menu: Tackling food waste is a major challenge. In the US, about 40% of food supply ends up in the trash, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council — enough food to fill Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Stadium every single day. It’s a staggering reality when over 47 million Americans face food insecurity, per the Department of Agriculture. Hunger is often seen as a third-world problem, but it’s clearly an issue in our own neighborhoods.
Next Meal: We wouldn’t be surprised if Andrés becomes a global ambassador for Copia worldwide, signing up brands wherever he goes.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
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