Foodservice and Convenience

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Economic Forum, more than 70 billion pounds of food is lost annually in the United States.   Feeding America is the leading waste diversion partner across the food chain, currently diverting 3.3 billion pounds from landfills and turning it into 2.7 billion meals for people in need.

Restaurants, hotels, hospital, and convenience stores offer a variety of food and may be able to provide smaller quantities of highly perishable food donations.

More than 20 billion pounds of food within the hospitality industry is ending up in landfills today. Given the magnitude of wholesome food which can be recovered, Feeding America is concentrating on establishing more partnerships within the hospitality, foodservice, and convenience business channels.

Some of Our Partners:

• Starbucks
• Amazon
• Panera
• Loaf N Jug
• Sheetz
• Bon Appetite Management Company (BAMCO)

With more than 7,000 enabled agencies – Feeding America member food banks’ nonprofit partners trained in proper and safe food handling and retrieval – picking up more than 520 million pounds of good food, we facilitate the rapid distribution process to help ensure food reaches people in need while it is still fresh and wholesome.  Our network of member food banks continues to carefully evaluate, select and train viable agency partners to facilitate the pickup of wholesome food.