Eating well without your own staff restaurant? It's possible - with gustav.

"Food waste" is on everyone's lips. Not literally, of course. But the topic of food waste has been a hot topic in Switzerland - at least since reader reporters sounded the alarm at "20 Minuten" in September 2022: terrible pictures of waste containers filled to the brim with baked goods and hundreds of spoiled, still packaged menus at a disposal site caused a lack of understanding.

The concern is well-founded: 91.8 kilos of food thrown away per capita each year is no laughing matter. Around 750,000 tons of food waste per year, whose food, climate and monetary value is forfeited, is a clear call for more sustainability in food management.

Private individuals are responding to the need for action with targeted purchases and even cooking courses to prevent food waste, such as those offered by the Aargau municipality of Kirchdorf. But employee catering also has a responsibility.

How to perceive them shows the SV Group with its smart fridge gustav. The smart fridge is not only the simplest autonomous food station, where employees can select and consume up to 300 delicious and healthy snacks, seasonal, nutritious or international SV menus and drinks 24/7 using "Tap, Grab & Go" (while billing and payment take place automatically on the app). A key benefit of gustav is also that it reduces food waste.

➜ The intelligent Smartfridge analyzes and knows the culinary preferences of its guests. This enables SV to plan the filling and delivery of the popular menus precisely, in line with demand, and individually. This results in less food waste - because at gustav, what people like to eat is put on the table.

➜ High-quality fresh produce from SV-Manufaktur is ideally protected against contamination and recontamination during production in the pressurized clean room and thus has a longer shelf life. This additionally reduces the likelihood of throwaway.

➜ Items with use-by dates are offered at half price 10 hours before expiration, i.e., starting at 2 p.m.; customers receive push messages via app about the anti-food waste discount.

➜ Unsold food is collected in German-speaking Switzerland before midnight and placed on the food platform toogoodtogo.com at a further reduced price.

➜ The very last food leftover is recycled for biogas production in accordance with the Swiss Food Ordinance - which means that even leftovers that are no longer edible can still be turned into something good.

gustav and SV have an overall sustainability record that is impressive.

• gustav's latest version cools with propane. Propane has a global warming potential value of 3, conventional refrigerants in competitor refrigerators have one of 1036.
• At its sister company, Office Delivery gustav, SV relies fully on reusable tableware. The delivery service's means of transport operate in a certified climate-neutral manner.
• In addition, the use of recycled and further recyclable cardboard packaging is a unique selling point of SV. Unlike competitors, plastic is reduced to a minimum - for the benefit of the environment.
• Finally, SV systematically measures and reduces food waste in all its restaurants; at SV events, guests are kindly invited to take home leftover tidbits.
• The non-profit SV Foundation and majority shareholder of SV supports projects and organizations working to promote healthy nutrition and reduce food waste (e.g. Foodsave Bankette, Schweizer Tafel, Madame Frigo, Partage Foundation and Tischlein deck dich).

gustav Smartfridge feeds workers well, sustainably and revitalizes many an SME in the food desert with smart, intuitive and simple technology. Moreover, sustainability has been an integral part of SV's strategy for many years.

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