Restaurant chain to pursue national waste and utility expense management

Kona Grill is looking to minimize energy consumption and cut down on waste.



The restaurant company selected Ecova to provide waste expense management strategy and utility expense data management for the American grill and sushi bar chain’s more than 43 restaurants in the United States and Puerto Rico.



Ecova will perform a series of services for Kona, including utility bill processing, site specific utility service management, and monitoring monthly financial information to help optimize budgets.



For waste management, Ecova will assist with waste bill processing and analysis, and waste service optimization management. Kona Grill will access these analyses through Ecova’s energy and sustainability management platform, a single intuitive source of data and insights that will assist in setting companywide benchmarks, identify performance outliers and prioritize facility improvements.



“We believe that minimizing energy consumption and waste output begins with having reliable data,” said Paige Miller, director of facilities at Kona Grill. “Ecova is a fantastic partner not just for the range of data it can help us acquire, but also in the actionable insight it can read from our data. We’ll soon be able to improve our cost savings and environmental footprint company-wide.”