A Research About Orange Flag to Avoid Hotels from Wasting Food

Abstract

Thus, some campaigns, certificate programs and projects are held in Turkey to avoid wasting of foods and resources. Orange flag program is one of them to decrease food wasting. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the success of orange flag program and to clarify benefits of it within hotels. In order to do that, interviews are held with hotel managers. As a result, it is seen that hotels with orange flag program have significant decrease about food wasting and also, they benefit by more interest from customers to prefer these hotels. It is concluded that the hotel staff with orange flag application are more sensitive in this regard.