Waste intelligence for catering butchers
Turn waste into yield.
Phone-based waste tracking for UK catering butchers. Designed for the factory floor, deployed in a week, with operational insights from day one.
The problem
Most catering butchers have no reliable view of their own waste.
Waste is typically recorded on paper, aggregated weekly, and reviewed after the fact — if at all. Product-level, supplier-level, and time-of-day patterns stay invisible. A two percent yield loss on a multi-million pound throughput can represent tens of thousands of pounds a year, and most operators cannot point to where it originates.
How it works
Under five seconds per item. No hardware, no clipboards, no end-of-shift admin.
Scan
Operators photograph any supplier or internal label using their existing phone. Product, supplier, weight, batch, use-by date and estimated cost are extracted automatically.
Confirm
The binned weight can be adjusted for partial bags but is capped at the original label weight, preventing inflated entries and preserving data integrity.
Analyse
The dashboard aggregates every event in real time — by product, supplier, reason, and time of day. A daily analyst briefing summarises patterns and recommends specific actions.
What the dashboard surfaces
The operational detail behind every waste event, in one view.
Profit Leak
Top products ranked by cost, stacked by reason, with interactive modelling of reduction scenarios.
Supplier scorecard
Cost attribution per supplier, calculated from every scanned label. Surfaces patterns to discuss at the next price review.
Time-of-day and day-of-week patterns
Hour-of-day and day-of-week charts surface when waste is being binned — patterns to investigate at the source.
Use-by date analysis
Distinguishes stock binned before use-by (overproduction) from stock binned past use-by (rotation failure).
Analyst briefing
A daily AI-generated summary written in operational language, identifying the single highest-value action for the week ahead.
Trim versus pack separation
Distinguishes yield loss from cut specification issues from pack-level spoilage, enabling targeted remediation.
Why it's different
A focused tool, built for operators, without the enterprise overhead.
Fixed-station camera hardware at £3,000–£8,000 per bin
Uses the phone already carried on the factory floor
Multi-year enterprise implementations with significant onboarding cost
Deployable in a week. Baseline established in two. First operational insights from week three.
Generalist dashboards designed for data analysts
A single operational view, legible to a factory manager within thirty seconds
"All-in-one" platforms that dilute focus across many functions
Purpose-built to answer one question: what left the factory, and why
Developed on the factory floor.
YieldView is designed by someone who has worked production shifts in UK catering butchery and observed the operational gaps first-hand. Every feature is informed by real production conditions rather than theoretical workflows. The result is a tool that operators will actually use.
Make your waste visible.
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