It Isn't Just Good For The Environment,

It's Good For Business

JFConnolly & Associates is an operations-focused, expense-oriented management consulting firm that specializes in assisting organizations in the food service sector and corresponding stakeholders such as composting facilities, hauling companies, cities, and governmental agencies realize the operational, economic, environmental, and community relations advantages of diverting food waste and other organic waste out of landfills and into composting.

The need for these services is evident as large food waste producers, particularly supermarkets, strive to meet increasingly stringent municipal, state, and federal environmental regulations against a background of growing public awareness toward environmental issues.

In addition, there is the need for supermarket chains and others to create competitive advantage through effective expense management practices, environmental responsibility, unique marketing initiatives, and positive community relations.  In essence, diversion of organics waste to composting is an integral part of the new green wave of sustainability, with organics diversion serving as a cornerstone to an organization's comprehensive recycling and sustainability program.

For the past six years, JFConnolly & Associates has been directly engaged in the organics recycling/composting strategy for Massachusetts-based supermarket chains, convention centers, hotels, restaurants, food processors, and educational institutions.

We have participated in collaborative activities with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, US EPA, Massachusetts Food Association, City of Cambridge, regional supermarket chains, Boston area hotels, Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, composting facilities, organics-niche haulers, and trade associations representing the supermarket, food service, and organics recycling sectors.  

Our work in Massachusetts has delivered convincing operational, economic, environmental, and community relations results for all parties involved.  We are currently working with the State of Ohio as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio EPA, the Ohio Grocers Association, composting facilities, organics-niche hauling entities, and others formulate going forward strategy for organics diversion to composting in that state.

This work positions us as an industry resource nationally for supermarket chains, other generators of food waste, composting facilities, vendors of services, food industry associations, and federal/state/city governmental agencies interested in diverting organic waste out of landfills into composting as part of an overall environmental strategy.

A critical key to successful recycling efforts is the effective combination of operational and economic viability. Long-term success emanates from organics recycling strategies that are synergistically profitable for all participants while meeting the strategic objectives of environmental stewardship and effective community relations.

Our strategies focus on achievement of operational objectives and organizational goals, support top-line sales growth, provide effective management of operational expense, and deliver corresponding bottom-line earnings improvements. We have an extensive background in retail operations and corporate leadership of multi-regional supermarket chains. Experience spans single and multi-store independents, regional divisions, and consolidated national chain operations. As such, we bring comprehensive knowledge of generator operations, vendor relations, corporate functions, and corresponding industry practices to our clients.

We assist organizations and partner stakeholders having a desire to leverage operational practices, sustainability directives, expense management initiatives, comparative analyses, technology, and goal-setting to reduce expense and enhance operating performance. Significant expertise is offered developing and executing recycling & environmental initiatives for generators of compostable waste, particularly in the supermarket sector.

Prior to forming JFConnolly & Associates, the firm’s founder, John Connolly, was responsible for organizational management of $765.0 million of supermarket chain retail operating expense for over 250 stores with annual sales of $4.5 billion. Throughout more than 20 years of providing chain-wide retail and corporate expense management services, and now as an independent consultant to the supermarket industry, the composting sector, and their business partners, the strategies we have put into effect have resulted in direct annual savings ranging from tens of thousands to millions of dollars depending on the size of the company, number of locations, and annual sales volume.

Creating Operational Excellence

Through Intelligent Expense Management