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Emerging from COVID With a More Sustainable Approach

Modern Restaurant Management

Disruptions in processing, as well as transportation, have created numerous problems for restaurant owners across the country. It’s also a more environmentally friendly endeavor as it doesn’t rely as much on large forms of transportation. Composting food scraps and leftovers. Using biodegradable packaging.

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Protecting the Planet and Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

When considering the transport element, the method of transport is more significant than distance travelled and avoiding food that has been air-freighted will have the most significant travel-based impact. Beef in particular has a very high carbon footprint relative to other meats, emitting 60 kg of carbon for every kg of beef.

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Four Steps to Manage Restaurant Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

These wastes can also be transported to landfills to make compost manure and enrich the soil. While working with the right waste management company, here is how you can embrace the Reuse and Recycle in your restaurant. Organic food waste can be recycled for use as renewable energy sources.

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The Challenges — and Opportunities — of Establishing a More Circular Mushroom Economy

EATER

It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. Stempel currently takes most of the material to a nearby compost facility, but local farms, gardeners, and florists also take a portion. It wasn’t a tough sell. In the U.S.,

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Embracing Hyperlocal Ingredients: Transforming Menus and Communities

Modern Restaurant Management

Sustainability and the Local Economy Sustainability is a trend in its own right, but it is also a perfect counterpart to hyperlocal ingredients, which have fewer packaging, storing, and transportation needs. Transportation alone accounts for nearly 20 percent of food-system emissions.

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How Organic Ingredients Can Enhance Your Restaurant’s Sustainability Initiatives

The Rail

They generate large amounts of waste and carbon emissions through food production and transportation. Additionally, sourcing organic products from local providers can help reduce food miles and carbon emissions associated with transportation. Organic farming methods enhance soil health through crop rotation and cover cropping.

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What’s Packing Your Food? Restaurant Delivery Packaging Trends

Goliath Consulting

It also means that the packaging should allow for easy transport while keeping foods sealed and protected from spills or physical damage. It goes without saying that the food inside the packaging should be clean and organized, as well as compartmentalized with dividers so that they do not mix during transport. Presentation. Conclusion.

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