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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

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The EPA estimated that in 2018, the United States wasted 35.3 According to the food waste hierarchy pyramid, source reduction is the ‘best case scenario’ when it comes to food waste. Composting. In the beginning, it might be helpful to educate team members on the benefits and process of composting.

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MRM Plant-Based: Five Easy Ways To Increase Your Sales (Without Cauliflower Pizza)

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Grubhub released its annual “ Year In Food ” report, highlighting the top trends of 2019 and found that vegan and vegetarian orders rose by 27 percent in popularity overall in 2019 as compared to 2018. Vegan and vegetarian dishes took over seven of the top ten most ordered dishes on Grubhub, up from three of the top spots in 2018.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

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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. Think paper straws versus plastic. The focus is to cut down the impact we have on the environment.

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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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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

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In 2018 she became the first solo woman to win Grand Cochon, a national whole hog cook-off. In 2018, the Frederick County United Way bestowed him with its first ‘Red Feather’ United Way Award, acknowledging his personal and organizational commitment to the organization.

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

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Eighteen former workers at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture allege dysfunction in the livestock program at America’s most famous regenerative farm “This isn’t a joke,” police told the Daily Voice , a hyperlocal news site in Westchester County, New York, on August 30, 2018. “We

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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. GlobalData). Foodable Labs).