Orbisk | Zero Food Waste

At Gemeente Amersfoort, Gregory Heijmerink is Vermaat's Location Manager. He was already using Orbisk before he arrived. He'd worked with the system in a previous role and brought the habit with him. The habit: checking in from Wednesday onward, treating Thursday as a lighter day, and keeping Friday's offering to a minimum by the time service starts. Every week, the AI Culinary Advisor flags where the next bit of waste is most likely coming from, a category, a day, part of a day, and suggests a specific target. Gregory decides whether to act on it. Accept it, and it tracks itself from there. Over three years: more than 3,000 kg of food saved, a roughly 30% average reduction per guest, and his Friday waste score cut by roughly 65% during the measurement period. "Since Orbisk was installed, you really start to see in the numbers what you're actually throwing away," he says. #FoodWaste #HotelFB #CateringIndustry #Sustainability

Prime rib. House blend. The Tuesday sauce. Every kitchen has its own words for what's on the menu, and no generic ingredient list captures all of it. With Custom Labels, you can create, rename, move, and merge ingredients to match your kitchen's workflow: in seconds. - Prime rib sitting under "red meat"? Split it out. - Five sauces lumped into one bucket? Merge or separate them. It updates everywhere in your dashboard, and you're free to change it again anytime. Your data speaks your kitchen's language, so what you see is exactly what you can act on. #FoodWasteIntelligence #HotelFB #RestaurantOps #KitchenOperations

It's Food Waste Free Week in the Netherlands. This week, we ran a webinar with Vermaat looking at one specific moment: the last production day of the week, where the data shows the problem, and peer knowledge solves it. Live polls kept the room guessing before every reveal. Two Vermaat speakers, Gregory Heijmerink (Location Manager at Gemeente Amersfoort) and Annie Raggers (Horeca Manager at CAK), then took the floor to share what's actually worked at their locations, sharing their experience and inspiring others. Since 2019, that habit of comparing notes has helped Vermaat reach a 43% average reduction across 95 locations, and prevent more than 41,000 kg of food waste. It started with one small pilot, and has grown into how Vermaat approaches food waste today: less about a single target handed down, more about what one kitchen learns and passes to the next." The session finished with an open invitation: an eight-week focus on the last production day, not a competition, just a shared push toward the same target. Organised by Orbisk. Proven by Vermaat. #VerspillingsvrijeWeek #FoodWaste #KitchenOperations #Orbisk

Tomorrow, Astore Day in Amsterdam. We'll be in the kitchen area all day with a live demo running. Come find Stijn and Neil to see the Orbi in action.

It's Food Waste Free Week in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 From the start, we've been a partner of Stichting Samen Tegen Voedselverspilling (Food Waste Free United) in tackling food waste, and we still are. A week is enough to make a point. It's not enough to run a kitchen on. If every Dutch household hit zero food waste for the week, it would save almost 18 million meals. On average, each of us throws away 25.5kg of food a year. Commercial kitchens face the same gap, every single service, not just this week. That's what Orbisk exists to close. Not a commitment for seven days. Visibility for the rest of the year. #VerspillingsvrijeWeek #FoodWaste #HotelFB #Sustainability #Orbisk

On 10 September, Orbisk will be at Accor's Astore Day by Astore Procurement - Your buying partner. Inside Amsterdam's Centrale Markthal, for a full day of hospitality procurement, bringing together F&B teams, chefs, and GMs from across the network. We'll have a unit at our stand, and a second one running live in the event's own kitchen all day, so anyone can see it working in a real environment, while we track it in real time from our booth. Stijn Brand and Neil Anderson will be on-site, come say hello, or ask for a live demo. 📍 Centrale Markthal, Amsterdam 📅 10th September #AstoreDay2026 #FoodWaste #HotelFB #Orbisk

I'm happy to announce that Neil Anderson stepping into the Chief Commercial Officer role. 🙌 Neil and I have worked together twice before (at Soly and JD.COM). And now for a third time at Orbisk | Zero Food Waste. It took me some months to convince him (and his wife Claire, little one Ro, and fur baby Cleo) to move back to Amsterdam from London. But I am so excited and grateful for Neil and his family's trust and belief in the mission of what we're building. Beyond Neil’s commercial acumen, what matters just as much to me is the trust we have built over the years and how closely our values align. There are very few people I would choose to build alongside again and again. Neil is one of them. He is someone I would happily walk through the trenches with. Welcome to the team Neil! Excited for this next chapter at Orbisk | Zero Food Waste and to continue building alongside this awesome team. 💚 Olaf Orane Bart Teun Neil

Finding the right person is exciting. Finding someone who already knows why the mission matters is rarer. We are happy to say that Neil Anderson has joined Orbisk as our new Chief Commercial Officer Orbisk is scaling fast, and that means the sales conversation has to scale with it: more markets, more decision-makers, more people who need to see the case clearly and quickly. "I've spent most of my career building and leading commercial teams across both large corporates and high-growth startups, but my real passion is helping scale ambitious, meaningful businesses like Orbisk. I love the product and our mission." The goal hasn't changed. More kitchens, less waste, just faster than before. Welcome to Orbisk, Neil.