4/25/2013

Restaurants Vow to Stop Tossing Out So Much Food

The next time you bite into that pork bun at Momofuku or burrito at Chipotle, you can tell yourself that you are doing something for the environment.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Thursday that more than 100 New York City restaurants, including haute cuisine temples like Le Bernardin and chains like Pret a Manger, have pledged to reduce the food waste they send to landfills by 50 percent.