Finding treasure in restaurant trash
It took nearly 10 years and roughly $250,000 in startup costs, but Juan Pacheco, 45, finally has a product he hopes will revolutionize the restaurant industry.
Called the FlatwareSaver, it’s a flip-top container lid that fits over a standard industrial-size trash can and is embedded with small metal detectors. When busy busboys or waiters dump a plateful of food into the tray, the sensors emit a loud beep, alerting them that silverware, serving dishes and other items are among the trash, Pacheco said.
“Restaurants in the U.S. spend about $500 million on lost silverware and ramekins — which are the small serving dishes used to hold sauces,” Pacheco said. “The first time I heard a restaurant supervisor call it ‘the cost of doing business,’ I knew I was onto something.”
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