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ABOUND FOOD CARE
City of Diamond Bar
May 2024 Report
Date: June 28th, 2024
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Scope of Services:
Abound Food Care agrees to implement an enhanced comprehensive municipal edible
food recovery program on behalf of the municipality in the City of Diamond Bar.
Services to be performed include the following.
1. Further collaboration and communication.
a. To include monthly meetings as needed, information requests, information review,
and all necessary follow-ups.
2. Manage edible food recovery contracts between 8 Tier 1 and 14 Tier 2 food waste
generators as identified by the city and in accordance with SB1383 regulations.
a. Manage and assist in the execution of food recovery agreements from the total 22
Tier 1 and Tier 2 generators.
3. Provide the use of a technology platform to aggregate pounds recovered and report to
the city monthly.
a. This technology platform will include information on types of food donated, food
recovery organization recipient, pounds of food recovered and frequency that the
food is recovered in accordance with SB1383 regulations.
b. Monitor food donations and provide food donors and food recovery organizations
assistance as needed.
4. Provide educational materials to all Tiered food waste generators and food recovery
organizations including but not limited to benefits of participation in food recovery and
SB1383 compliance regulations.
a. Provide the city with a list of Food recovery organizations either in the city or
operating in the city to put on their website.
5. Conduct at least 44 targeted and recorded outreach touchpoints to Tier 1 and Tier 2
food waste generators in cooperation and/or conjunction with city staff and waste
hauler staff using Abound Food Cares CRM platform.
6. General assistance with communication of these efforts as well as broader efforts to
build the stakeholder groups to effectively service the city will be included in this scope
of services.
7. Conduct the annual inspection of the 8 identified Tier 1 food generators to identify
compliance with SB1383regulations.
a. Inspection will include confirmation of a written agreement with a food recovery
organization or service, the active use of a food donation log recording their food
donation activities and identification of any red flags.
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Outreach Activities:
In May of 2024, Abound Food Care focused our efforts on coordinating outreach to the
identified non-participating Tier 1 and Tier 2 generators. This included virtual touchpoints
including email, and phone calls that included information on how to begin their food donation
efforts. These touchpoints were as follows:
1. We received an email from the corporate office of Chilis. They let us know that Brinker
has formed a cross functional team and are speaking with third party agencies to ensure
compliance. They said they will be reaching out with any additional updates. We will
follow up next month if we don’t receive any further updates before then.
2. After speaking with Fara at Blue Sky Café, she let us know they are not donating at this
time. She was not familiar with SB1383, so we went over the donation requirements of
a restaurant. She gave us her email and asked that we send additional information
regarding this for her to review with her boss. We will follow up with Fara in the coming
weeks if we don’t hear back from her before then.
3. We spoke with Robyn at the Diamond Bar Center. She let us know they do not have a
donation program in place to donate their excess edible food. She asked that we reach
out to Ryan Wright regarding this as he might know more about this. We will be
reaching out to Ryan to go over the edible food donation requirements further and offer
our assistance.
We were able to get the tracking sheet for the edible food generators updated and sent back to
the City so they could review the information. We also provided any educational information
that we have provided to the Tier 1 and Tier 2 generators regarding the edible food donation
requirements.
We are in the process of revising the structure of our monthly Outreach Reports. The updated
version will include more detailed information on the impact of edible food donations in the
community. Additionally, the report will continue to highlight significant touchpoints for the
month. You can expect to receive the updated report next month.
We will continue our outreach to the non-participating Tier 1 and Tier 2 generators and
continue to offer our support in getting them in compliance with the requirements of SB1383.
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City of Diamond Bar 2024 Pounds Recovered
Touchpoints: 10
Abound Food Care continues to provide service and outreach to the City of Diamond Bar
foodservice operators.
Generator January
Pounds
February
Pounds
March
Pounds
April
Pounds
May
Pounds
2024 Total
Albertsons 15,890 12,465 11,105 11,180 12,340 62,980
Target 590 730 2,072 4,885 Pending 8,277
Sprouts 3,797 5,280 4,385 5,229 Pending 18,691
Walmart 13,545 12,363 11,701 12,674 10,034 60,317
Smart and Final 1,005 1,070 2,220 1,145 1,010 6,450
Diamond Fresh 150 200 189 N/A 250 789
Total 31,180 32,108 31,672 35,113 23,634 157,504