Zenbird Editorial TeamExcelsior Cafe is extending its collaboration with TABETE, a food waste rescue service, to include 99 of its stores. Starting from January this year, Excelsior Cafe’s first batch of 40 stores prevented more than 250kg of food waste. The success pushes the collaboration further as Excelsior Cafe introduces another 49 stores, mainly in the Tokyo region and other prefectures like Saitama and Chiba Prefectures.
To know more about food waste in Japan
- 2026-03-05: Global food waste app Too Good To Go enters Japan as first Asian market
- 2026-02-23: Aeon Agri Create pilots methane fermentation for sustainable agriculture
- 2026-02-19: Bakery range turns 30 tonnes of asparagus trimmings into value
- 2026-02-09: FamilyMart upcycles bread crusts to cut food waste
- 2026-02-05: Upcycled soy sauce waste finds new life in Japanese skincare masks
