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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

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Approximately 45 percent of all fruits and vegetables , 35 percent of seafood, 30 percent of cereals, and 20 percent of meat and dairy products are wasted by suppliers, retailers, and consumers each year. Recycle and compost. Between a third and a half of food is wasted worldwide annually. Realize that small changes matter.

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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. New York City, on the other hand, introduced a curbside composting program that failed completely because there was little incentive to participate.

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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. Waste management programs like recycling, composting, and any food-waste reduction measuring done can also help in this category.

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Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Is Dynamic Pricing the Solution?

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Robert Sanders, the study’s author, used economic models to show that if grocery retailers used dynamic pricing to adjust prices for perishable foods based on how long they’ve been on the shelves, retailers would likely dramatically curb food waste. San Diego’s Rady School of Management suggests that it might.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

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Retail foodservice, specifically convenience store foodservice traffic, was a growth area for the industry. Morning meal has been a bright spot for foodservice over the past two years, and restaurants and retail foodservice have contributed to the growth. The breakfast and A.M.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

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Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. Restaurants have been pivoting to reach and serve customers in new ways, and retailers have been seeing the lines blur between brick and mortar and e-commerce.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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In their Q3 2019 Food Sector Retail Index, Placer.ai, the world’s most advanced foot traffic analytics platform, looks at ten of the biggest QSR brands to see who came out on top this quarter. " To learn more about this report, click here. Top QSR Traffic. percent of market share. Theme Park Visitors Don't Like the Food.

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