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Restaurant Sustainability is About Success, Not Just Recycling.

Ken Burgin

Sustainability is about survival and prosperity – can we put that upfront? Now more than ever, with soaring supply prices, staff shortages and crazy weather, sustainability makes sense across all business areas – it’s much more than recycled packaging and local vegetables. They have a vital purpose and passion.

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Which Sustainably Packaging Model Is Best for Your Business?

Restaurant365

Many of the sustainability practices that we were committed to pre-COVID flew out the door when we entered this unprecedented era. 60% Americans would support local ordinances improving recyclability standards for takeout containers. So, which sustainable packaging model is best for your business? Recyclable.

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How to Engage Your Employees in Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

Smart restaurant owners understand sustainability benefits their bottom line and customer base. if you’ve decided to get started, how do you get employees excited about sustainability too? Your employees will complete the majority of your sustainability actions. Guess who cares about sustainability?

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Green Restaurant and Slow Food were others we considered. But it was the pivots in the pandemic that pointed us toward B.

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How the Pandemic Has Forever Changed the Way We Eat

Modern Restaurant Management

According to SEC filings, food delivery apps experienced tremendous growth in 2020 earning a combined $5.5 billion in revenue from April through September of 2020—compared with $2.5 billion from the same period in 2019.

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The New Order: Five Important Focus Areas for Greener Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

Throughout the paused activity of 2020 and 2021, people everywhere were reminded of the delicate ecosystem that exists between individuals and their communities, as well as between people and their planet. Luckily, a commitment to more sustainable operations can coexist with healthy profits, and even growing margins.

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What’s the difference between plastic and metal coffee pods?

Perfect Daily Grind

And which is more sustainable? Recyclability & sustainability. And while the production of “virgin” aluminium is energy-intensive, it is infinitely recyclable. Figures from the European Aluminium Association estimate that in 2015, the aluminium can recycling rate for Europe was over 76%. Which is stronger?

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