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Investigating the Causes of Food Waste in the Hospitality Sector in Dubai-UAE. Toward Implementing Food Waste Prevention Strategies
(Springer Cham, 2025) Reham Zeyad Sadeh; Bassam Abu Hijleh
One of the major environmental problems worldwide is food waste and loss. In Dubai, an Emirate in the United Arab Emirates, this problem is most significant in the hospitality sector including restaurants, hotels and food services, at the consumption level. The efforts to create campaigns and initiatives are notable, however, the theoretical part of finding the actual causes of this problem is still unobtrusive. This research focuses to fill this gap and find the main causes of food waste (FW) especially in the hospitality sector of Dubai and suggests prevention strategies for food services to follow. It used a mixed-mode methodology by spreading two surveys for food services guests and employees, then interviewing expert-positioned people in the emirate to verify the data. It found that customers’ main causes of FW were taking big portions and lack of awareness. The causes of FW from food services were mainly their over-production and wrong forecasting for numbers. Interviewees suggested strategies to prevent FW. Thus, the research combined all results to come up with a FW reduction fundamental plan for food services to follow.