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title: "Nation's Restaurant News: Toppers Pizza Featured for Food Waste Efforts"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/f2295d9b-9db7-43e5-bf87-878315e243a3
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-toppers-pizza-featured-for-food-waste-efforts-4633
category: "Pizza"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Pizza"
published: 2016-05-16T22:17:39.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T03:12:30.202Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/31013f3911fe1226d775ddc1962a091b4023160516174539.jpeg
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# Nation's Restaurant News: Toppers Pizza Featured for Food Waste Efforts

**TL;DR:** Toppers Pizza is featured for its food waste efforts, with vice president of supply chain Donette Beattie discussing the importance of managing food costs. Buying in bulk can save money if done correctly, according to Beattie.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2016-05-16. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-toppers-pizza-featured-for-food-waste-efforts-4633).*

## Story

As public concern grows over the scale of discarded food in the country, managing how much food waste from your restaurant ends up in landfills could become a social issue as well as a business one.

But those costs are mostly out of operators’ control. Donette Beattie, vice president of supply chain for Toppers Pizza , a 73-unit fast-casual chain based in Whitewater, Wis., said that buying in bulk is a smart way to save money — if you don’t overdo it.

Buying in bulk can save money if you don't overdo it, Donette Beattie of Toppers Pizza said.

“You want the maximum pack size you can get, but you don’t want to go over,” Beattie said. “Then you put the stores in a managing waste situation.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- Toppers Pizza (company)
- supply chain management (topic)
- cost savings (topic)
- food waste (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-toppers-pizza-featured-for-food-waste-efforts-4633). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/f2295d9b-9db7-43e5-bf87-878315e243a3).