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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

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Chef-owner Colleen Marnell-Suhanosky opened the restaurant in 2013 after working for renowned Boston chef Lydia Shire and at various East Coast restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern in New York City. Food waste from all sources is responsible for eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the U.S. Community, environment.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

I have been fortunate to work with Sleepy Bee Cafe since its founding in 2013. B Corp was one of a few certifications or collectives we investigated to find guidance and validation for the way we do business, particularly our long-standing sustainable sourcing mission. Green Restaurant and Slow Food were others we considered.

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

Modern Restaurant Management

Dash From the Past: A Decade Delivered In 2013, things started off small, with a simple idea. Today, we’re looking back on the decade to see how much our tastes have changed since 2013 and what’s stayed consistent — our passion for chicken sandwiches, for one. Since 2013, more than 600 million (!)

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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

The owner of Delicious Raw, a healthy fast casual concept launched in 2013, is looking to grow the brand and create a one-stop-shop for healthy consumables for a broad audience. We first launched Delicious Raw in 2013 and once we opened our Miami Beach location in 2018, there was no turning back. Flemming Madsen.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

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As the Michael Bloomberg mayorship (2002 to 2013) stoked massive residential development projects to accommodate the city’s growing population, more white-collar professionals found themselves in Brooklyn. Black residents, who made up 78 percent of the Crown Heights population in 2000, only accounted for 57 percent by 2013. [1-CHART

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Chargebacks: A Fast-Growing Threat Facing the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Back in 2013, the food and beverage industry had one of the lowest average chargeback rates of any business vertical. This means identifying chargebacks based on their three fundamental sources: criminal fraud, friendly fraud, and merchant error. At that time, the typical restaurant saw a chargeback rate of barely 0.01

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The Internet’s Most Incredible Collection of Food History Has Been Saved

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The page on soup alone contains over 70,000 words from primary sources, cataloged in breathless detail. But I noticed that around 2013, the timeline mysteriously stopped. Curious about the first appearance of sorghum in our diets? It’s all there.

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