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

EATER

Heating and cooling, refrigeration, and cooking equipment are the biggest energy users, followed by lighting. More Energy Guzzlers Cooking equipment is just one facet of restaurant energy use. Budderfly also installed a new HVAC system at one location and made other equipment upgrades that have cut his energy use by 20 percent.

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How Education Can Attract Workers to QSRs Amid High Turnover

Modern Restaurant Management

Consider a large Mexican fast-casual chain that implemented a tuition coverage program for employees pursuing degrees in fields like agriculture, culinary arts, and hospitality. In response, the company developed a new initiative aligned with its corporate culture and offering technical flexibility to accommodate individual franchises.

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Navigating the Supply Chain in the Restaurant Industry

Goliath Consulting

According to this McKinsey Report, these “changes in consumer behavior continue to ripple through the US food and agricultural supply chains” even today (1). This is precisely what Akash Kapoor, CEO of Bay Area-based franchise Curry Up Now, has been doing to get around the problem of ingredient deficits.

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What Now? COVID-19 Survival Guide for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant enterprises and franchise owners can take advantage of this technology immediately as it does not require professional installation and is readily available.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

.” Zemke points out that robotic technology designed to perform specific physical tasks has recently emerged as an option for hospitality businesses due to decreasing robotic equipment costs. San Francisco has the most community-supported agriculture programs (per square root of population), 0.0172, which is 21.5

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Coffee News Recap, 23 Dec: SCA approves plant-based and other animal milks at WBC 2023, USDA predicts rebound in global coffee production and increased consumption for 2022/23 & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

The Italian coffee equipment manufacturer received carbon neutral certifications for the Dalla Corte XT and Zero espresso machines, with emissions offset through the Ntakata Mountains project. US Congress also approved a 2023 budget to support agricultural research and development, which WCR states is of value to the coffee industry.

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Fast-Casual Academia, Climatarian Menu and Ice Auction

Modern Restaurant Management

Single restaurant proprietors and large franchise chains alike utilize SALIDO’s enterprise-level solution to revamp traditional and outdated operational systems. yrKing, leading food prep equipment manufacturer, has introduced the BBS Flex, a new series of Breader Blender Sifter (BBS) models.