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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

We’re continually learning about new and innovative ways to help our clients be more sustainable—whether that be choosing eco-friendly materials and fixtures or finding new products that use recycled or compostable packaging. In 2016, there was plenty of compelling robotics technology geared for the restaurant industry.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2016, there were only four companies operating in the space. One way to accomplish this: offering durable or compostable plates, cups and utensils, which the study proves makes it easier for customers to compost their food scraps and sort their waste into the right bins. Now it is more than thirty.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

billion dollars in 2016 and experienced a staggering 300 percent surge to a $4.65 Offering contactless ordering and payment since 2016, GoTab is helping hospitality operators rethink their service model, especially as they adapt to rapidly evolving regulations and consumer expectations. Before the coronavirus affected the way U.S.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

EATER

2008: Cereal Milk launches an empire Christina Tosi invented or popularized a number of household-name desserts — Compost Cookies, Crack Pie ( now Milk Bar Pie ), naked cakes — but her Cereal Milk, which she initially developed at Wylie Dufresne’s wd~50, reshaped the dessert world. Every meal is an opportunity to post.

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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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Adding Sustainable Alcohol Options to Your Restaurant

The Rail

Modern wineries like the Fetzer Vineyards in California have been net-zero since 2016 and employ a series of methods, including: Installing on-site solar panels that produce 1 million kWh of renewable energy per year; Diverting of 99.2% These steps contribute to achieving a net-zero and zero-waste status.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Additionally, while other smoothie establishments use gallons of water to clean each blender, Ono’s patent-pending automated self-cleaning blender and robotic systems use 28x less water because it only needs to clean the blade and because it’s blended in the customer’s compostable cup.