Nick Sterling

Associate Director of Sustainability, The Cheesecake Factory

It’s always been important for our organization to redirect surplus food to protect the planet and aid those in need in our local communities. Copia has not only enabled us to achieve this seamlessly at scale, but our collective work has helped build a foundation to improve the sustainability of other businesses nationally. With Copia, we’ve found a solution that aligns with our business needs, provides legislative compliance, and supports our standard for sustainable practices.

Scott Schaefer

Market Director of Meetings and Special Events, The Ritz-Carlton

I fully support the use of Copia! It was so refreshing to find a company offering a very easy solution to reducing our Carbon Footprint in our Banquet Operation and overall hotel. The process of preparing and making the donations was extremely easy, and the daily reporting of the good we were doing made all of us proud of our efforts. The pricing is also very reasonable–keep doing good!

Jack Breezee

Valley Area Regional Director Food and Nutrition Services, Sutter Health

Copia has helped us develop a process that is doable, manageable and most importantly replicable day after day. Copia has helped us make a positive impact on many fronts; food waste reduction, donating food to our communities, as well as the positive environmental impact of reducing greenhouse gases and water conservation.

Catherine Onate

Learning and Development Manager, 1 Hotels

Partnering with Copia has been incredible for our organization. Not only has our team been able to expand its reach and support within the community, but we have also been able to analyze, quantify, and better understand our impact. As we continue to learn and grow, we look forward to working with incredible people and an organization that aligns with our mission and values! Thank you Copia team!

Lauren Trahan

North Texas Franchise

Rudy's North Texas partners with Copia to donate our surplus food to neighbors in need across North Texas. On average, Rudy's shares 662 pounds of food, providing over 550 meals per week to our local communities! Copia enables our team make a strong financial case for doing the right thing. The Copia tax portal makes it as easy as possible for Rudy's to project and claim our Enhanced Tax Deduction, proving that it helps our bottom line to do good.

Casey Stock

Director of Global ESG & Sustainability, Natera

At Natera, we have been able to partner with Copia to redirect our excess catered food directly to organizations who could benefit from it. In 2021, we struggled to understand how much extra food we were over-ordering and did not know what to do with the extra food in a sustainable and impactful way. Our partnership with Copia has enabled us to donate our edible food to organizations in the Austin and San Carlos communities, while reducing our Scope 3 emissions and further informing our team how to order less food overall. In 2022, our partnership expanded to donate extra food from our larger national events. We are grateful to have Copia as a partner to help us maximize the impact in our communities while reducing our greenhouse gas emissions.

Jessica Coons

Senior Conference Coordinator, GreenBiz

​​As a leader in sustainability conferences, GreenBiz recognizes the importance of prioritizing sustainability within our event operations. Copia has helped us achieve this with a repeatable process that gives us the opportunity to divert our food waste from landfills while providing food to those who need it within the communities where we operate. Having access to our donation metrics via the Copia Portal allows us to celebrate these ESG wins with our staff, attendees, sponsors and the broader sustainability community

Melanie Murry

Senior Event Producer, Foxtail Catering & Events

When servicing large scale events, having leftovers is inevitable. That's why we're so grateful we found Copia. Foxtail catering builds in a 10% overage in production, but Copia makes sure all of our surplus is diverted to local nonprofits in need. Copia's easy-to-use technology makes it possible for us to switch locations and know that our expected leftovers end up in the hands of local neighbors in need.