Top Foodservice Industry Resources
We have compiled the most popular foodservice industry guidelines, best practices, case studies, white papers, videos, and more to help you easily find the resources you need to implement GS1 Standards.
Guidelines
- GS1 US Attribute Recommendations for the USDA School Meals Programs
- GS1 US Foodservice Attribution Scorecard
- North American Industry Implementation Guidance for Standard Case Code Labeling
- Read the RFID Advantage: The Value of EPC/RFID With Extended Attributes
- Foodservice Data Quality Guide
- GS1 US Guidance for Sharing Product Attributes via GDSN in Foodservice PDF (1934 KB)
- Foodservice Implementation Guideline for Case-Level Traceability Using GS1 Standards PDF (1 MB)
- Implementation Resources and Guidelines for Produce on the Produce Traceability Initiative webpage
- GS1 US Trade Item Identification and Communication Guidelines for Electronic Data Interchange PDF (1 MB)
Implementation Resources
- GS1 US Product Image Sharing Guidance for Retail Grocery and Foodservice
- Foodservice Industry Progress Microsite
- Discovery App: GS1 Standards in Foodservice
- Inaccurate Package Measurements: A Common, but Preventable Root Cause of Data Quality Problems PDF (165 KB)
- Implementation Checklist for Manufacturers PDF
- Implementation Checklist for Distributors DOCX
- Implementation Checklist for Operators DOCX
- How do GS1 Standards Enable Traceability for Enhanced Food Safety? Webpage
Case Studies
- Golden State Foods - Delivers Visibility Side Innovation
- Union Farms - Achieving Carbon Neutrality in the Name of Sustainability
- CKE Restaurants Trace Food
- Georgia-Pacific - Proves the Value of Where and Who; Adding GS1 Global Location Numbers to its data set adds efficiency
- Ocean Mist Farms - End-to-End Produce Traceability
- Georgia-Pacific — Centralizing data governance maintains data quality
- IPC/Subway Delivers the Promise of End-to-End Traceability Throughout the Subway System
- Bush Brothers & Company − Bean Counting is Easier with Quality Data
- Ecolab Takes a Clean Approach to Spotless Product Data
- Beaver Street Fisheries - Taking a deep dive into solid data governance