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

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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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Six Important Steps Restaurants Should Take to Build a Strong Food Safety Culture

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Luckily, there are proven ways to help build a solid, positive food safety culture, including boosting trust, improving communication, educating employees, and relying on tech tools, including Artificial Intelligence. Six important ways to create and maintain a strong food safety culture include: 1.

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From Recipe to Retail: Steps to Create a Sellable Product

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y Money, time, patience and education, the latter meaning educate yourself as best as possible while still relying on the expertise of your consultant. Step #6: Audit the Co-Packer Make sure they are GMP or Good Manufacturing Practice compliant. Step #1: Make Sure You Have Funding Do you have money?

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Outdated Health and Safety Checks Are Holding QSRs Back

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By modernizing employee task management, quick service restaurants (QSRs) can streamline routine health and safety audits. Ensure Routine Health and Safety Audits Run Smoothly Outdated processes, like pen and paper audits, can make health and safety checks a tiresome, time-consuming task with room for human error.

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Building a Culture of Consistent Foodservice Safety

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Training and education around hygiene and food safety continue to be a standard, but there are further steps managers can take to guarantee the safest, most hygienic, and highest-quality experience for guests. Instead, take a step back and audit your current food safety and hygiene practices.

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COVID Caused Five Permanent Changes in the Restaurant Industry

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For many brands, an annual audit was the norm, while employees may have focused on not "getting in trouble" or "getting a good score" rather than the creation of culture. The auditors looked for infractions but didn’t help teams correct areas of non-compliance or educate them on how to mitigate risks.

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The Importance of NSF Certification for Restaurant Tools and Knives

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The NSF has a standards team that facilitates the development of public health standards, and a service team that test, audit, and certify products and services – which brings us to NSF Certification. Most products that receive the certification bear the NSF mark on their packaging to help buyers make educated purchases.