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Why Restaurants Are Switching to Intelligent Packaging

Modern Restaurant Management

According to Future Market Insights, since 2021, online food delivery services market is growing at over 9.5% Majority of people believe that compostable packaging can be thrown away with the rest trash and it will decompose on its own. of overall waste generated in 2021. million tonnes or 28.1%

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

EATER

We’re ordering larger quantities than ever before, but six pounds of chocolate that cost us $72 in 2021 is now $129 thanks to climate, crop disease, and market speculators.” Crave Fishbar is also a B Corp-certified restaurant, recognized for its social impact along with several other criteria, including environmental impact.

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Summer 2021 Food & Beverage Trends

Goliath Consulting

With the pandemic and climate change being hot topics in recent months, Summer 2021 will have guests wanting to see more healthy and sustainable items on their menu. Especially compostable menus.) According to Yelp’s 2021 Trend Forecast Report , the rate of review mentions of hard seltzer was up 189%. Plant-forward.

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The Challenges — and Opportunities — of Establishing a More Circular Mushroom Economy

EATER

It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. Stempel currently takes most of the material to a nearby compost facility, but local farms, gardeners, and florists also take a portion. It wasn’t a tough sell. In the U.S.,

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

For Sleepy Bee, we submitted our assessment in June 2021, entered the review process in March 2022, and completed it in November of 2022. Waste management programs like recycling, composting, and any food-waste reduction measuring done can also help in this category. Once that is submitted you are subject to a thorough review.

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July/August 2020 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

California Requires Quick Service Restaurants to Make Composting Bins Available : On July 1, a California law, requiring restaurants, malls and other businesses to make composting and recycling bins accessible to customers officially went into effect. Administrative Developments. FDA Resumes Domestic Inspections : On July 10, the U.S.

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How a New York City Restaurant Loses Money on a $14 Sandwich

EATER

The choice of an oval container, made of biodegradable and compostable sugarcane pulp, hurtles food costs upward to 24 percent. Dirt Candy’s electricity bill jumped from $2,000 in February 2020 to $6,000 for February 2021. Until we include packaging, a current requirement for the takeout and delivery sales on which restaurants depend.