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Skip the Straw: How Restaurants Can Make an Impact

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A group of Whitehall Middle School students known as “The Coral Keepers” founded National Skip the Straw Day in 2017 under the guidance of their advisor, Susan Tate. When they have run their lifetime, the straws will decompose in your regular garden compost pile. The intention behind National Skip the Straw Day on Feb.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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Global food prices are rising worldwide. Twenty-six countries in the index report food price inflation of 5 percent or higher in the past year. Ongoing turmoil has seen food prices rise most sharply in Venezuela and Syria. .” Findings from the 2019 Global Food Security Index reveal that: ? per person. per person.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

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Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. is rolling out a suite of features and extended price cuts through March 2021 to support restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic. billion valuation in 2017.

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Restaurants Avoiding Big Delivery Apps Have to Get Creative

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To translate this aesthetic to go, takeout food is creatively wrapped in compostable packaging and adorned with colorful custom labels. We started in 2017 because we wanted to provide a nice service for nice people to have food delivered quickly and affordably by bike! My husband used to be a bike courier in Boston. And ride bikes.”.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

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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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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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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. Bolay Promotes Gutierrez.

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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

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Low priced / value perceived / big ticket items brought down to a fixed low price. The utilization of ghost kitchens means more money and opportunity for restaurant operators, without large price or labor hikes. With the loss of foot traffic, restaurants are forced to increase menu prices to compensate.

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