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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. Practice good stock control. Recycle and compost. Food takes up more space in US landfills than anything else.

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Emerging from COVID With a More Sustainable Approach

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Consumer demands have also caused a shortage of certain items, especially meats. It’s a good idea, as a restauranteur, to know where your food is coming from and how it was cared for. One survey found that 88 percent of consumers want brands and businesses to help them be more sustainable in their everyday lives.

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QSR Brands Can Leverage Technology to Overcome a Recession

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Smart kitchen equipment, such as automated stove tops and automatic recycling oil fryers, make order fulfillment easier, faster, and more consistent. Updating each price change and physically adding an “unavailable” sticker to traditional signage was time-consuming and inefficient.

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Making Your Food Delivery Business More Sustainable

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The results demonstrated that online consumers seek delivery services from providers committed to carbon-neutral processes. This trend of seeking out a more sustainable process of e-commerce related to food goods is not going away anytime soon. The rest goes to feeding local consumers and livestock or turning them into biofuels.

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10 Tips for Promoting Sustainability in the Food Industry

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Efficiencies here can help the entire lifecycle of how food is produced, processed, packaged, distributed, marketed, consumed, and even disposed. Building on the concepts of a circular food economy, talk centers around recycling and how to return packaging to suppliers. Manage the Packaging.

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Be Prepared: Cocktail and Beverage Trends for Events

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A trendy cocktail and beverage selection can truly transform an event and now is a good time for event planners to recalculate and learn about trends so they will be prepared and armed with knowledge when businesses are back up and running. need to be in the know with all the upcoming trends.

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As Consumers Prioritize Sustainability, Forward-Thinking Operators Accommodate

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It’s no secret that in recent years, consumers have increasingly prioritized eco-friendliness and sustainability in various parts of their lives. From the rise in popularity of electric cars to consumers’ obsession with reusable water bottles, it’s clear that consumers want more sustainability in their day-to-day lives.