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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

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From updating policies to gearing up for tax season, these steps will enhance your compliance and position your restaurant for sustained growth. Auditing Classifications : Double-check exempt versus nonexempt statuses for all employees to avoid costly fines and incorrect paychecks and tax withholdings.

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The Rise of Sustainable Food Sourcing: Considerations for Seafood Restaurateurs

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Sustainable Food Sourcing Is Worth the Effort. Sourcing seafood sustainably takes a bit more work but is worth it. Fishery improvement projects and aquaculture improvement projects are designated fisheries and aquacultures that have expressed a desire to be more sustainable. Source Responsibly.

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Revolutionizing Restaurant Supply Chains: The Impact of AI on Transparency, Validation, Verification, and Sustainability

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AI can also improve sustainability within restaurants – and throughout their supply chains – with huge benefits that include waste and carbon emissions reduction, cost savings, and meeting consumer demand. Here, AI can help verify suppliers’ compliance with audit and certification standards. Improving sustainability.

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Strategies for Achieving a Zero-Waste Kitchen in Your Restaurant

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Teach workers how to implement a waste auditing system that allows both you and them to identify patterns in wastage. Sustainability is measured by looking at a number of areas throughout a business. Monitoring practices : It’s difficult to reduce food waste if you don’t know what is being wasted.

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Tech Will Be Essential to Boost Food Safety and Quality in 2023

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Focus on Sustainable Food Production. As climate change puts traditional farming methods – and food production – at risk, there will be a renewed effort around sustainable food production, like vertical farming, hydroponics, and aquaponics. In the coming year, operators should rely on restaurant technology (ResTech) to help them: 1.

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Adopting Tech Solutions Is the Smartest Decision Restaurants Can Make

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Sweetgreen implemented tech solutions to improve their operations, boost sustainability , and personalize customers’ experiences. It’s wise to invest in fully featured software options, which offer audit management and compliance tracking capabilities to maximize the safety of your food, guests, and business.

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