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Restaurant Experts Talk Sustainability Tips and Trends

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Sourcing local ingredients and producing more in-season vegetable focused dishes help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contributes to improving our carbon footprint. I also actively participate in the Monterey Bay Aquarium sustainable seafood program to maintain an ongoing awareness of which species can be sourced safely.

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We Should All Be Eating More Rabbit

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Rabbits have such a small footprint on our world, and the manure is great for compost for our garden,” says Lisa Webster, co-owner of Maine’s North Star Sheep Farm , where the Vermont Butcher Shop sources its rabbits. In 2017, inhumane practices were exposed at the largest U.S. There’s zero waste, and it’s nutrient dense.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

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Ingredients are clean and sourced from local vendors whenever possible, and the menu is designed to support vegan, gluten-free, and Halal diets in an effort to accommodate all guests, no matter their dietary preferences. Taco Bell committed to making all consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025 worldwide.

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

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In the course of reporting this story, I’ve spoken with more than 20 sources. Over his first 10 years at Stone Barns, he built a flourishing, 10-acre organic vegetable farm using compost and rotational planting to feed the soil. Workers plow fields at the Stone Barns farm in Pocantico Hills, New York, in April 2017.

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

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In 2017, at its annual Stars of the Industry Gala, the Restaurant Association of Maryland presented Plamondon with the Brice & Shirley Phillips Lifetime Achievement Award. That’s why the compostable packaging is more important than ever. We’re thrilled with the compostable solution provided by Harvest Pack.

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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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Orange Is the New Yolk

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The egg’s luxury came as much from its implied provenance as it did from garnishes like caviar and hollandaise: The diner might assume that the chef had sourced the egg from a farm where the chickens’ asses were being wiped with non-GMO Charmin. Consider the 15 different egg options at Mr. Mango, a Brooklyn grocer near my yoga studio.