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Supporting Guests and the Environment with Sustainable Restrooms

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Daily travel numbers are nearly back to what they were in 2019, according to the Transportation Security Administration ( TSA). Now is the time to also consider sustainability and how to minimize the environmental impact of commercial restrooms. Best Practices for Sustainable Restrooms.

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

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The California Restaurant Association , in fact, joined forces with a state gas utility, SoCalGas, to recently beat back a 2019 Berkeley ordinance banning natural gas in all new buildings, even though the rule wouldn’t have affected existing restaurants. Compostable containers are are an imperfect solution , however, because the U.S.

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How the Pandemic Has Forever Changed the Way We Eat

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billion from the same period in 2019. And as COVID spread, it came became increasingly clear that addressing the larger system that prevents packaging from being properly managed and recycled was a more practical and flexible way to manage bags that were designed to be recycled rather than banning them.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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Read any article enumerating the current or emerging trends in restaurants and retail and you will see ideas of health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and brand authenticity coming to the fore. Waste management programs like recycling, composting, and any food-waste reduction measuring done can also help in this category.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

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” The Weishaupt’s founded the Weishaupt Family Foundation in 2019 to give back to the community-at-large and distributed $50K in grants to nonprofit organizations in the New Orleans area. In 2019, Black Restaurant Week collaborated with nearly 250 Black-owned restaurants and culinary businesses in cities across the U.S.,

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-May 2021 Edition

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percent compared to April 2019. percent compared 2019. percent compared to 2019, outpacing their Full-service counterparts (-13.5 Investing in Sustainability Alternatives to Animal-Based Foods. retail sales excluding automotive and gasoline increased 23.3 percent year-over-year in April, and 10.8 Online sales grew 19.9

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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While restaurant sales were lower for November of 2018, November of 2019 did not include the same holiday headwinds. Second, the shift of Thanksgiving into December of 2019 converts from tailwind to headwind this month. percent from 2018 to 2019, sales for the whole weekend only increased about four percent. First, at 2.1

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