Open data

Every kitchen that chose to publish. The pounds come from a scale, weighed before the food hit the trash, and every number shows how many of the expected logs came in.

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CC BY 4.0. Use it for anything, and credit the kitchens and Half Pan. It has no names, notes, photos, sales, or served counts.

Published kitchens

No kitchen has published yet. Kitchens can publish after their two-week baseline, and the first one shows up here the day it does.

What is in the CSV

One row per kitchen, day, category, and reason.

Column	Meaning
`site_id`	The kitchen's site code.
`site_name`	The public name the kitchen chose. Blank means anonymous.
`town`	Town and state, if the kitchen gave one.
`venue_type`	restaurant, temple (faith or community kitchen), concession, school, event, hotel, shelter, pantry, hospital, senior, or other.
`date`	The kitchen's local date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`category`	The food group: one of eleven, the same in every kitchen (Proteins, Rice & grains, and so on). Kitchens set up before October 2026 may use their older category names.
`item`	The kitchen's own name for it, like "cilantro lime rice". Blank for kitchens that log by category only.
`reason`	One of six: Made too much, Held too long, Spoiled or expired, Mistake (dropped, burned, wrong order), Trim, Plate waste. Logs before October 2026 said Spoiled and Dropped.
`destination`	Where it went: trash, compost, drain, donated, staff (eaten by staff or volunteers), home (sent home with guests or families), or animal (animal feed). Donated, staff, home, and animal are rescued, not thrown out.
`lb`	Pounds for that day, item, reason, and destination, after the container's weight is taken off.
`logs`	Logs that came in that day, all categories.
`logs_expected`	Logs the kitchen expects a day: expected per shift times shifts.
`coverage`	Share of that day's expected logs that came in, counted shift by shift, 0 to 1.
`method`	direct weighing; counted when every log in the row was counted pieces times a set weight each; estimated when any log in the row came from an event pan sweep (how full each pan was times the weight of a full pan).
`license`	CC BY 4.0. Credit the kitchen and Half Pan.