AI技術減少食物浪費～文華東方酒店
隨着ChatGPT的盛行，大家都對人工智能（AI）愈來愈熟悉。AI無疑能有效地幫助人類，近日文華東方酒店集團宣佈目標在2025年底前於旗下所有酒店添置Winnow食物處理技術。此舉不但是集團在環境管理上的一大進展，更印證了集團致力於在豪華酒店業界樹立永續發展的新標準。
文：Lawrence Yu
文華東方酒店集團目前已在香港文華東方酒店、倫敦海德公園文華東方酒店、邁阿密文華東方酒店及杜拜朱美拉文華東方酒店等四間酒店試用Winnow食物處理技術，並把食物廢棄量大幅減少36%，足見Winnow人工智能技術的效果顯著，彰顯集團對營運績效和企業環境責任的不懈追求。
在旗下酒店全面採用Winnow的頂尖技術是集團永續發展廣泛策略的核心。數據顯示，食物廚餘佔全球溫室氣體排放量的10%1，而大多數廚房食物浪費普遍佔所購買食材之5-15%。因此，集團期望在2030年前減少50%廚餘，嚮應聯合國2030 年永續發展目標12.3，把全球人均食物浪費減半。
Winnow提供的數據能使酒店後廚節省約2-8%食材成本，將有助酒店作有利於環境和營運成本的明智決策。集團將在現有基礎上持續拓展廚餘管理措施，當中包括員工教育、全面改善自助餐營運方式、捐贈多餘食品，以及制訂改善土壤狀況和有效疏導雨水的創新堆肥計劃。
文華東方酒店集團在全球勇摘26顆米芝蓮星級，而位於香港置地文華東方酒店的著名法式高級餐廳Amber更榮獲米芝蓮綠星認證。同時，集團積極鼓勵大廚發揮創意，以獨特方式令社會意識到緩解糧食浪費的迫切性。展望未來，大廚可以善用Winnow提供的數據，打造「零浪費」菜單和食譜。文華東方酒店集團可持續發展總監兼區域營運副總裁Torsten van Dullemen表示：「文華東方酒店集團致力為貴賓提供卓越體驗，亦不忘貫徹永續發展。因此，我們在鞏固行業領導地位中邁出一大步，期望在全球文華東方酒店內全面採用Winnow技術，減低對生態的影響。Winnow共同創辦人暨執行長Marc Zornes表示：「文華東方酒店集團在永續發展上，一直處於豪華酒店業界的領先地位，是次合作證明人工智能技術和數據對減少食物浪費有顯著成效。Winnow很榮幸能夠與文華東方酒店集團攜手，實現集團減少食物浪費的遠大目標，共同訂立全新的行業標準，並為地球環境帶來實際改變。」
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