Logistic solutions for leftovers

Fast Company (Jan. 30) -- Every year, tens of billions of pounds of perfectly edible food are thrown out by restaurants, groceries, catering companies, and delis. In Chicago, two computer science Ph.D.s --Rajesh Karmani and Caleb Phillips--are trying to bring that number down to zero, with a little bit of logistics and a lot of code. “What keeps me up at night is the fact that there’s still food in the dumpsters,” says Phillips. Their company--Zero Percent--started out simply, somewhere between Karmani’s home and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a grad student.