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

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As part of creating that good environment, she’s taken multiple steps to cut Rifrullo’s carbon footprint, including composting all food scraps, one of the most important steps restaurants can take to combat climate change. “Community, environment. It’s part of my DNA. produces the equivalent annual emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants.

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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Donation, composting, and organic recycling are all available options to restaurant operators attempting to reduce the amount of food scraps entering their solid waste bins. Most of the time, back-of-the-house food that is being tossed, isn’t because its spoiled, and often times, still perfectly edible. Composting.

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Emerging from COVID With a More Sustainable Approach

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But, when it comes to both front and back-of-house operations, there are things you can do to cut back on waste production, including: Setting up a recycling program. Composting food scraps and leftovers. You can also cut back on waste by simplifying your menu. A Sustainable Supply Chain. Quite a bit.

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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. But is B Corp certification something restaurants should pursue? I have been fortunate to work with Sleepy Bee Cafe since its founding in 2013.

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BRING BACK THE 20 SEAT BISTRO

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This restaurant was their house, and they had a handle on how the house was doing. Bigger is less predictable and much more difficult to control and bigger takes cooks and chefs away from what they love to do, what attracted them to the trade in the beginning – to cook from the heart. That was it!

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

” “We were on a path to integrate more technology into our operations before COVID-19 and found ourselves fast-tracking during the pandemic so that we could get back to business as fast as possible, serve our customers and keep our people employed,” said Kevin Youkilis, owner of Loma Brewing Company. SpotOn Transact, Inc.

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Four Ways To Manage Limited Resources And Increase Your Margins

Modern Restaurant Management

Identifying the right tools and even back-of-the-house partners can make your operations more sustainable and your bottom line stronger. While it’s no easy task, the tools needed to create clean environments for preparing and serving food and making smart decisions on resource management exist. The result: peace of mind.