The Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative seeks to facilitate GS1 Standards adoption in an effort to make the industry’s value chain more visible, secure, and sustainable with complete and accurate data. The goals of the initiative are to drive waste out of the foodservice value chain, improve product information for customers, and establish a foundation for improving food safety and traceability that companies can choose to adopt.
Foodservice manufacturers, distributors, and operators in the United States are asked to consider voluntary individual company adoption and implementation of the following GS1 Standards:
- Location Identification - Assignment of the Global Location Number (GLN) for manufacturer, distributor, and operator use, as applicable.
- Product Identification - Application of the Global Trade Item Number® (GTIN®) to foodservice products to ensure unique identification of individual products.
- Baseline product information (product attributes) to facilitate the aligned exchange of complete and accurate product information among manufacturers, distributors, and operators who voluntarily choose to adopt these attributes.
- Continuous real-time exchange of consistent, accurate product information among value chain partners through the GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network® (GDSN®). The GS1 GDSN is an open platform with many certified technology providers. GDSN data pools are interoperable – publishing to one or retrieving data from one means that companies can retrieve data from all GS1 GDSN-certified data pools.
Community Leadership
GS1 US works closely with industry to connect communities, identify and resolve industry issues, and share best practices.The Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative serves as a strategic effort in which individual companies and industry trade associations may choose to join on a voluntary basis to assist with their company’s independent decision to adopt and implement GS1 Standards (see Anti Trust Policy Statement).
The Initiative is striving for 75 percent adoption of GS1 Standards throughout the foodservice industry by 2015. Participating companies to date include manufacturers, distributors, and operators of all sizes and from many segments of the industry.
Review our founding members list.