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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Can you run a zero-waste coffee shop?

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With more and more consumers focusing on sustainability in the coffee industry, the term “zero waste” has become somewhat of a buzzword over the past few years. Essentially, the concept of zero waste is based on the elimination of waste, mainly through reusing and recycling products, materials, and packaging.

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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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6 Tips to Make the Switch to Sustainable To-Go Containers Painless

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More than 180 billion single use takeout containers are thrown away in the US every year, and recycling is not a solution. A UN funded study estimated that barely 10% of plastic packaging is recycled effectively and more than 70% reaches landfills and nature. It takes at least 500 years to decompose and cannot be fully recycled.

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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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