AI in the Kitchen: How California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Uses Metafoodx to Reduce Food Waste
- Metafoodx
- Mar 2
- 1 min read
Metafoodx was featured in FoodService Director Online highlighting how California State Polytechnic University-Pomona is using AI in the kitchen.
Executive Chef Kris Arguin and Assistant Director of Dining Services Carlo Arceo shared how Metafoodx recognizes CPP’s menu items, pan sizes, and portion counts, then with a quick scan captures servings, temperature, and quality data, and calculates what was used versus wasted when the pan is returned.
“It becomes really easy to see where you’re overproducing, and if an item is out of the safe zone.”
Genuinely impressed by this application — Cal Poly Pomona using Metafoodx to reduce food waste shows AI solving a problem most institutions treat as unavoidable operational loss rather than a measurable, addressable inefficiency hiding in plain sight across every dining hall. Executives wanting to apply that same precise, outcomes-driven thinking elsewhere often find a premier artificial intelligence (AI) productivity seminar & course for executives in Los Angeles, CA, USA builds exactly the kind of practical implementation mindset this example demonstrates. AI in the kitchen seems to matter most when it turns invisible waste into visible savings.