# Re:Dish Co.

> Re:Dish is a New York-based reuse company that replaces single-use foodservice containers and cups with a full-service reusable dishware program. Through its 'Reuse as a Service' model, Re:Dish delivers reusables, collects them daily, sanitizes them at a high-capacity Brooklyn warewashing facility washing up to 75,000 units a day, and tracks the environmental impact through its DishTrack software. Founded by serial entrepreneur Caroline Vanderlip in 2020, it serves corporate cafeterias, schools, hospitals, arenas and production sets, tackling the roughly one trillion single-use foodservice items thrown away in the US each year.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Caroline Vanderlip (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~21 employees
- **Products:** Full-service reusable dishware program, Outsourced warewashing & reverse logistics, DishTrack software
- **Notable:** Named to Inc.'s Best in Business List 2023, In 2023 helped avoid over one million single-use containers, diverting ~65,000 lbs of trash from landfills and preventing over 166,000 kg of carbon emissions, Over 6 million single-use items diverted to date

## Products & services

- **Full-service reusable dishware program** — Supplies reusable plates, cups and containers, then picks them up, professionally cleans and sanitizes them, and returns them - a turnkey 'Reuse as a Service' offering.
- **Outsourced warewashing & reverse logistics** — High-capacity industrial washing and daily collection routes for organizations that already run reusable systems, handled at a Brooklyn facility washing up to 75,000 units per day.
- **DishTrack software** — Proprietary inventory management and impact platform that tracks units in circulation and calculates carbon emissions avoided, water saved and waste diverted for sustainability reporting.

## Achievements

- Named to Inc.'s Best in Business List 2023
- In 2023 helped avoid over one million single-use containers, diverting ~65,000 lbs of trash from landfills and preventing over 166,000 kg of carbon emissions
- Over 6 million single-use items diverted to date
- Built a Brooklyn warewashing facility capable of sanitizing up to 75,000 units per day
- Finalist, US Plastics Pact Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award
- Finalist, Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award
- Selected for Unreasonable Impact Americas

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Featured in Grid Magazine for helping corporations and cafeterias cut waste with reusable dishware.
- **2023-12** — Named to Inc.'s Best in Business List 2023 and profiled in Inc. Magazine on building infrastructure for circularity.
- **2022-12** — Closed $3.4M seed funding led by How Women Invest.
- **2022-11** — Profiled by Food On Demand for building back-end infrastructure for reusable containers and dishware.

## Links

- Website: https://redish.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/redishco
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redish_co

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Last updated: 2026-07-03