Patent ID: 7415375

Claim:
A food waste monitoring system, comprising: an input module to receive an indication of a weight of a container including food waste placed upon an electronic scale; a user interface to receive an indication of a type of the container, a type of food being weighed, and a loss reason representing a reason for the food becoming waste; a database of tare weights for empty containers, a processing module to automatically subtract the empty container tare weight for the indicated container type from the indication of the weight provided by the electronic scale to calculate a weight of the food waste; and a storage module to store the calculated weight of the food waste and the indications of the food type and loss reason; wherein the user interface also receives an indication of an identity of a user placing the food waste on the scale, and wherein the user interface provides a request for an alternative indication of container type when the indication of container type received has a tare weight from the database greater than the indication of weight provided by the electronic scale.