We’re proud to be prominently featured in Modern Farmer’s article, "California's Food Recovery Program is the First of its Kind in the US" by Lena Beck, which highlights how we’re ahead of the curve with California’s SB 1383. In just three months in 2024, we’ve donated 65,596 pounds of food. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dr_CwshT
Bon Appétit Management Company
Restaurants
Redwood City, CA 45,920 followers
Food Service for a Sustainable Future
About us
Bon Appétit Management Company (www.bamco.com) is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, and specialty venues. Based in Redwood City, CA, Bon Appétit has more than 1,000 cafés in 33 states, including ones for Google, Oracle, Emory University, and the Getty Center, as well as public restaurants such as STEM Kitchen & Garden and Public House in San Francisco. Bon Appétit chefs cook from scratch, including their sauces, stocks, and soups. A pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, Bon Appétit has developed programs addressing local purchasing, the overuse of antibiotics, sustainable seafood, the food and climate change connection, humanely raised meat and eggs, and farmworker welfare. We're proud to have received numerous awards for our work, from organizations including the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the James Beard Foundation, Chefs Collaborative, Natural Resources Defense Council, Seafood Choices Alliance, The Humane Society of the United States, and Food Alliance. 
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External link for Bon Appétit Management Company
- Industry
- Restaurants
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, CA
- Type
- Public Company
- Specialties
- sustainable food, food service, local food, restaurants, vegetarian, humanely raised meat, cooking from scratch, corporate food service, healthy food, and university food service
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201 Redwood Shores Parkway, Suite 175
Redwood City, CA 94065, US
Employees at Bon Appétit Management Company
Updates
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Celebrate 20 years of Eat Local Challenge with us! 🥳 This is a momentous milestone in our now decades-long commitment to supporting local food systems. Twenty years ago, we began challenging our chefs to cook an entire meal made exclusively with ingredients grown within 150 miles of their cafés. In a year of exciting milestones, 2024 also marks 25 years since the creation of our Farm to Fork program, our hallmark sustainability initiative that tasks all our teams to spend at least 20% of their food budget on ingredients from small farms, ranches, and artisan food businesses within 150 miles. In commemoration of this occasion, we've published our learnings from 25 years of sourcing locally in a white paper entitled, "Sowing Success: Local Food Purchasing Insights from 25 Years of the Farm to Fork Program." Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gY4sg75v Thank you to our guests, chefs, and farmers for helping us continue our mission to expand and deepen support for our local food communities.
Sowing Success: Our New White Paper Highlights Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Purchasing Local Food
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We're excited to announce that we have published a white paper to honor 25 years of Farm to Fork, our groundbreaking local purchasing program. Check out the full paper "Sowing Success: Local Food Purchasing Insights from 25 Years of the Farm to Fork Program": https://ow.ly/jLTn50Tr5A4
Sowing Success: Our New White Paper Highlights Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Purchasing Local Food
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Our almost quarterly newsletter is back! Our Fall 2024 issue features a new format but the same commitment to celebrating our people and their accomplishments. Explore the issue here: https://ow.ly/F9Em50TqXPa
Bravo is Back!
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Nearly 20 years ago, a Bon Appétit chef at Lewis and Clark College met Sam Asai, owner of A&J Orchards, at a local farmers' market, kicking off an enduring relationship. This kismet meeting turned into a state-wide partnership, providing our teams with everything from cherries, peaches, and nectarines in the summer to pears and apples in the fall. Many Bon Appétit teams in Oregon exclusively purchase A&J fruit when it’s in season. Read more about the family’s multi-generation relationship to the land of A&J's Orchards: https://ow.ly/csJh50Tj9Ox
Farm to Fork Profile: A Generational Partnership with A&J Orchards
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Introducing our 2024 Chef of The Year Jeff Thurston! 👏 Jeff has been working in restaurants for over 30 years (since he was a teenager in Toronto!) and still thrives off the energy of the back of the house and buzz of guests. Now at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA, Jeff oversees a team of 150 and an operation that includes a four-station café, a Chinese restaurant called the Jade Court Café, and the newly renovated and re-opened Rose Garden Tea Room. Learn more about our 2024 Chef of The Year: https://lnkd.in/gezje35m
Cooking from Toronto to LA: Celebrating Jeff Thurston, our 2024 Chef of the Year
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Empowering women in recovery? That's Farm to Fork. 💪 Executive Chef Anthony Cutajar and our team at Conga are proud to purchase their coffee from Wagon Coffee Roasters, a mission-driven roaster dedicated to supporting women in recovery. Learn more about them in our most recent blog: https://ow.ly/1YHq50TaQlm
Farm to Fork Profile: Wagon Coffee Empowers Women in Recovery
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Farm to Fork means flipping the script on the expected. At MIT, our Executive Chef Jim LaChance's favorite thing about working with Boston-based seafood company Red’s Best is the twice-weekly mystery fish deliveries. Learn more about these mystery deliveries and the Red’s Best way here: https://lnkd.in/g4yvZmYz
Farm to Fork Profile: Red’s Best Flips the Script on Supply and Demand for Local Seafood
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Our Farm to Fork purchasing program isn't just a pie-in-the-sky ideal: it's rooted in partnerships that feel like family. 🤝 Case in point? The longstanding partnership between Case Western Reserve University and New Creation Farm, spearheaded by Campus Executive Chef and regional Forager Vincent Gaikens. Although our CWRU team regularly purchases ground beef, pork loins and shoulders, and beef brisket, this partnership goes far beyond procurement: https://ow.ly/ac8W50SUICN
Farm to Fork Profile: New Creation Farm and a Partnership that Feels Like Family
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With approximately 38% of food in our supply chain going to waste — costing roughly $218 billion each year — the need for food waste reduction is overwhelming from an equity, economic, and environmental perspective. Our Waste Programs Manager Rose Benjamin recently attended the ReFED Food Waste Summit and learned more about actions being taken to end food loss and waste. Read about her discoveries in her most recent blog: https://ow.ly/MHO650SPguc
From Community Composting to National Strategies: Blueprints for Food Loss and Waste Reduction at ReFED’s Food Waste Summit
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