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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

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Optimize your supply chain. Software solutions help optimize supply chains so your products ship and reach your restaurant more quickly and effectively. Recycle and compost. Cities will compost organic waste, turning it into fertilizer, or harvest methane from rotting waste, burning it to generate power.

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Adopting Tech Solutions Is the Smartest Decision Restaurants Can Make

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Increase quality and safety across the supply chain. Your restaurant may prioritize safety, quality, and compliance, but is everyone across the supply chain aligned in this effort? One weak link in the supply chain could cause a food safety breach that could put your guests and brand at risk. Manage labor shortages.

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How Do We Get People to Compost?

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Composting is good for everything and everyone, but food waste continues to be a major problem In the United States, food waste amounts to a whopping 30 to 40 percent of the food supply. Marina Lohrbach /Shutterstock.

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Four Steps to Manage Restaurant Waste

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But costs aren't the only problem here; more waste means more hauling fees, landfill fees, increased equipment costs, and more. This way, you can go back and work on the supply and demand metrics. These wastes can also be transported to landfills to make compost manure and enrich the soil.

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Beyond the Plate: Evolution and Exploration in the 2024 Restaurant Scene

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The year 2024 promises a journey of adaptation and fierce competition for the restaurant industry as it manages stronger-than-expected economic data and slowing inflation while dealing with the headwinds of short labor supply, more demanding customers and an uncertain political environment.

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Protecting the Planet and Profits

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Drivers for implementing carbon reduction efforts come from customers, our supply chain, the government and investors. Owing to the ever-increasing decarbonisation of the electricity supply, electricity is a lower carbon energy source than gas. With it the need to reduce carbon emissions from business activity has grown too.

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How Have Catering Supplies Transformed in 2019?

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Catering supplies have evolved with these trends, and items such as biodegradable and reusable packaging have been introduced. With more people waking up to the climate emergency, customers are demanding eco-friendly catering supplies. The equipment they use is a huge part of this. Cheap and easy solutions are no longer enough.

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