A solution to help the food waste at restaurants
ABOUT SUSTAINABITE
Sustainabite is designed to revolutionize the way restaurants manage food sourcing and reduce waste. Its mission is to connect restaurants with local food producers, offering better pricing, promoting sustainability, and optimizing food costs. The platform also fosters community engagement by connecting restaurants with like-minded entrepreneurs and promoting sustainable practices across the industry.
ROLE
UX Designer
TIMELINE
Mar - May 2023
LOCATION
Barcelona
challenge
Addressing food waste in restaurants requires a few strategies, including menu planning, portion control, staff training, efficient inventory management, encouraging customer awareness and behavior change, and establishing partnerships with food recovery organizations who want to tackle this issue and work towards a sustainable future.
With that in mind, we created Sustainabite—a community where restaurant owners can buy from local suppliers and use the food calculator to determine the exact portions needed for each dish, helping to reduce waste.
process
After conducting interviews with three restaurant owners, we mapped out a customer journey, allowing us to understand their daily operations, identify key pain points, and gain insights into how we could improve their workflow.
From these findings, we defined the main challenges to address: food tracking, community connection, order calculation, food waste, running out of ingredients, and low sourcing optimization.
This led us to develop Sustainabite, a platform designed to optimize ingredient sourcing and restaurant operations.
How it Works
1) Sourcing Connection
Producers join our platform to offer their products at special prices, secured by an agreement ensuring they don’t sell at lower rates elsewhere. In return, we promote their businesses through weekly highlights and reward them with a commission on sales. Additionally, we connect these producers with restaurants using the Sustainabite Calculator.
2) Food Calculator
The free version allows users to calculate ingredient quantities for a single dish, offering a taste of the tool’s benefits. If satisfied, they can upgrade to the premium version, which provides unlimited calculations, optimizing food costs and reducing waste.
Outcome
By addressing key pain points such as food tracking, community connections, and waste reduction, Sustainabite connects producers with restaurants to offer better pricing and promote sustainability. The Sustainabite Calculator helps users calculate food portions, with a free version for single dishes and a premium version for unlimited calculations, optimizing food costs and minimizing waste.
The result is a streamlined, sustainable solution that improves food sourcing, reduces waste, and enhances restaurant operations, leading to more efficient and cost-effective food management.
