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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

Modern Restaurant Management

Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers. Taco Bell committed to making all consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025 worldwide. Taco Bell's 2020 Commitments.

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Trudging Through the Tedious Swamp of Celebrity Brand Deals

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Fan magazines helped create the very idea of ‘movie stars’ and legitimize our fascination with the intimacies of their lives,” Libby Copeland wrote for Slate in 2011. Many studios even published their own. It’s a two-way street for the brand and the celebrity.

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From the Strategist: Everything You Need to Picnic, According to Picnic Professionals

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“We do most of our picnics in reusable totes, just because you can flatten it and get on with your life,” echoes Wendy Weston, founder of Perfect Picnic , which has been organizing European-style artisanal picnics since 2011. For disposable plates and cutlery, Rosen likes bamboo, because “it’s recyclable and it also just looks really nice.”.

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Coffee News Recap, 28 Oct: Flat whites could hit £4 in the UK, former Luckin Coffee CEO launches new Cotti Coffee chain in China & other stories

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UK’s Cup Neutral launches new 100% recyclable single-wall paper cups. In partnership with Paper Round, each Cup Neutral single-use cup can be fully recycled using the CupCycling scheme. The Indian company reported that Tata Starbucks sales alone increased by 57% during the analysis period.

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Are specialty coffee brands becoming more and more similar?

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Aluminium is the most cost-effective material to recycle and it can be melted down to be used again and again.”. A 2011 study by the Department of Management at the Islamic Azad University concluded that consumers found packaging information more important than graphics when purchasing a product.

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Changes at McDonald’s and Reducing Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Since 2011, FWRA has released insights, model practices and emerging solutions compiled from more than 40 FWRA member companies and expert partners from the hunger relief and waste management sectors. Informing stakeholders of the food waste reduction recognition programs currently available at each respective agency.

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Touring the Douro Valley with the Symington Port Family

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In 2014, Wine spectator awarded Dow’s 2011 vintage port as “Wine of the year” in the “Top 100 Wines of the World.” The many old terraces are maintained, and the company uses low-impact, recyclable packaging. Nevertheless, the wine world appears to like the quality of both Symington port and dry wine.

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