EATER

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When food waste goes to landfills, it creates methane , a powerful greenhouse gas. Food waste from all sources is responsible for eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the U.S. But restaurants have other, less visible sources of waste that also contribute to climate change.

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Compost Food Equipment Waste 299

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2025

Sometimes, these packaging materials end up in recycling where they can be broken down for reuse. However, oils and other foodstuffs are often not accepted in recycling plants. Moving to more eco-friendly options like biodegradable materials using bamboo or already recycled paper helps reduce unwanted waste from clogging landfills.

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Sustainability Delivery Recycling Food 221

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, a US Foods study revealed that nearly 30 percent of food delivery drivers taste the food they’re responsible for delivering, sparking an evolution in packaging design to tamper-proof takeout. Legislators Will Rethink How to Better Manage Product Waste.

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Food Safety Recycling Restaurant Law Front of House 558

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

About half of consumers indicated that a “restaurant’s efforts to reduce food waste, recycle or donate food can be factors in choosing where to dine.”

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Recycling Sustainability Loyalty Program Social Media 567

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Consider a variety of features and solutions that your facility can invest in to reduce its carbon footprint and provide visitors with a clean and green restroom, including: Look for restroom products made from renewable sources and/or from recycled materials. Minimize your facility’s output of plastic waste.

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Sustainability Recycling 2040 Waste 491

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2021

Permaculture is a science based on the principles of ecological design and sustainability within natural ecosystems. Rather than waste food, we can redistribute it. Simply, we are talking about being more restorative by design, which is having profound implications on business, economics, and governments. Consider Permaculture.

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Sustainability Tip Distribution Food Food Supply 508

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2023

As extreme weather and climate change continue to make headlines, restaurant owners are recognizing the impact their commercial kitchens have on the environment, with their enormous quantities of waste and carbon emissions. Adaptive Reuse and Recycling The greenest building is one that’s already built.

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Sustainability Design Waste Recycling 419

The Restaurant Group

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Introduction to Food Waste in Restaurants Food waste is a significant challenge for the restaurant industry, impacting both the environment and profitability. Understanding how to reduce food waste in restaurants is the first step toward sustainable and cost-effective operations.

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Waste Compost Food Recycling 78

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. Now, restaurateurs can easily manage and promote these experiences via OpenTable. 22 to Friday Sept.

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Serving White Paper Food Recycling 517

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2021

Waste Reduction. Another way to make your restaurant more sustainable is to reduce the amount of waste you produce through daily operations. But, when it comes to both front and back-of-house operations, there are things you can do to cut back on waste production, including: Setting up a recycling program.

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Sustainability Food Supply Front of House Transportation 537

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 9, 2022

Research has shown that 72% of Americans say that packaging design affects their buying decisions. However, the reality is compostable packaging are designed to be decomposed and processed in commercial composting facilities that provide the right environment for composting in a short period of time. of overall waste generated in 2021.

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Compost Sustainability Online Ordering Kitchen Safety 520

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Waste management programs like recycling, composting, and any food-waste reduction measuring done can also help in this category. They remain a benefit corporation in the state of California (a corporate entity designation available in 36 states).

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Certification Fast Casual Front of House Government 221

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This edition of MRM News Bites features McDonalds, the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, OpenTable, Ordermark, Hudson Group, Hakkasan Group , Waitr and Checkers, ICV Partners, Restaurant Technologies, Diebold Nixdorf and Alto-Shaam. " Reducing Food Waste. Changes at the Top for McDonald's.

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Waste Food Leadership Customer Service 253

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If you’re reducing food waste or saving energy and need employees on board, read on. In creating strategies for a recycling and food waste plan, ask them how they would put that into practice. Check your utility bills or your waste pickup information. Students and teenagers. Ask for Feedback and Input.

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Sustainability Recycling Waste Communication 414

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Aline Architecture Concepts took on the challenge to transform an old yellow costume shop in Phoenix into a modern brewery without creating the waste that normally accompanies typical building demolition and rebuilds. Ham wanted to design his brewery with the environment in mind.

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Brewery Recycling Sustainability Design 472

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Other approaches to reducing your carbon footprint can be achieved from initiatives such as increasing recycling, reuse of packaging as well as reducing waste that goes to landfill for example by offering compostable or even edible packaging and reducing food waste.

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Food Supply Transportation Compost Waste 520

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A short menu can slim down the food costs through streamlined inventory management, as well as reduced food waste. Water pollution and plastic waste have made many people look at restaurants. Creating websites with catchy restaurant website design is a long-term solution, although it's a significant investment for many companies.

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2022 Customer Service Online Ordering Website Management 547

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2021

One of the largest problems on the hands of restaurant and catering professionals through the unpredictable supply and demand of COVID-19 was food waste. Often, the resulting waste was not only the food but also the associated costs and energy spent on more waste management. Using less delivery packaging is a great way to begin.

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Operations Ordering Sustainability Food Supply 493

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

From reusable and recyclable packaging to zero-waste options, restaurants are continuing to prioritize sustainable initiatives. Plant-based proteins are growing increasingly popular on menus and less expensive cuts of protein, such as thighs instead of wings, will have a greater presence in the year to come.

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2022 Menu Recycling Sustainability 493

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2022

To eliminate waste, I always make pickles or fermentations with excess vegetables and dry cure meats for our charcuterie program to utilize any excess proteins. We use recyclable packaging and keep takeout packaging products to the minimum. It’s not just food, but also the supply chain.

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Sustainability Waste Food Supply Recycling 450

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 13, 2022

The company is testing a variety of programs to determine what will most effectively reduce waste while keeping customers satisfied. Meanwhile, the entire restaurant industry struggles immensely with waste from single-use plastics.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

There was little waste since managing twenty seats was much easier than trying to fill expansive dining rooms with a turn or two on busy nights. Instead of thirty-gallon trash cans spread out through the kitchen, there were two much smaller cans, a recycling bin, and tubs for compost.

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Seating Front of House Back of House Cash Management 471

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2020

The National Restaurant Association found that almost half of consumers surveyed consider a restaurant’s sustainability efforts — such as recycling, donating food, or reducing food waste — when making the decision to spend money on a venue.

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Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 21, 2022

As they’re difficult to recycle, we can also conclude most of these cups end up going to landfill, where they contribute to a growing waste problem. However, in response to the issue of single-use cup waste, some coffee shops now offer discounts for customers who bring their own reusable cups, as well as other swap schemes.

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Waste Recycling Compost Café 141

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2020

Judge Stephen Wilson held that the states’ ban was not intended to “create a total ban on foie gras,” but was instead designed to prevent the practice of force-feeding in the state of California. Full-service restaurants are exempt from this law if employees sort organic waste.

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2020 Restaurant Law Agriculture Compost 410

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2023

Even without accounting for the emissions impact of a restaurant's supply chain, the amount of environmental damage from materials consumed and wasted in the food preparation process can be staggering. Reduce material consumption and waste This is probably the easiest way for restaurants to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Transportation Food Supply Supplies Waste 450

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But while recyclability and zero-waste cocktails formed the thrust of sustainable action this year, 2022 will see more initiatives shaped by a focus on how spirits are made, with a vast majority of people now willing to pay more for ethically sourced regenerative refreshments.

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2022 Point of Sale Sustainability Customer Experience 493

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

Dunkin’ is also on track to fully transition to new, recyclable hot coffee cup lids in all of its U.S. Dunkin’s transition to paper cups will remove approximately one billion foam cups from the waste stream annually. The company is also on track to be fully transitioned to recyclable hot coffee cup lids in its U.S.

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Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Food Order Hospitality 376

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

James Beard Foundation Mentorship, presented by KitchenAid, is designed to empower and engage a network of culinary leaders. On average, BYOM™ has reduced printing costs by 80-90 percent while dramatically reducing waste. " Says Claire Peacock, Chief Operating Officer of MenuTrinfo® SAVI 3 Debuts.

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Allergens Kitchen Safety Guest Recovery Customer Service 364

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2023

One-at-a-time and controlled dispensers can reduce waste and serve more guests between refills. Implementing sustainable hygiene practices—like using wipers made from recycled materials or controlled dispensers that reduce waste—reinforces your dedication to helping the planet.

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Front of House Back of House Customer Experience Sustainability 251

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

SALIDO leverages design, data, and workflow management to optimize both front- and back-end operations. They also have the choice of using the MarketConnect app to order and pick up from a designated shelf onsite, avoiding interactions and maintaining necessary social distancing. ” says John Cocker, FOODWORKS’s president.

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Fast Casual Casual Menu Mobile Ordering 405

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Restaurant design footprint will fundamentally change with more BOH kitchen size needed and less FOH seats as more people gravitate toward digital and delivery. Restaurateurs will need to be more digitally savvy and relevant to the star power of design and bar rescues that are a hot in media. The sleeping giant is virtual kitchens.

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Mobile Ordering Front of House Customer Service Customer Experience 539

Restaurant365

JANUARY 21, 2022

Fast Facts: Food related waste, including straws, cutlery, and takeout containers, make up more than 60% of the most commonly collected items at the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC). 60% Americans would support local ordinances improving recyclability standards for takeout containers. Recyclable.

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Sustainability Recycling Compost Small Business 147

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2020

"We have designed our new restaurants around this technology because it allows us to provide better service to our customers with less effort and cost. ” ICE’s new Director of Beverage Studies Eamon Rockey led the program’s design. . This is a game changer in quick-serve and fast casual restaurants."

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Catering Mobile Ordering Customer Service Leadership 305

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company is also a trade representative for Pinhalense and Carmomaq and a manufacturer of its own 100% recyclable and reusable SUMMA “big bags”. Although these bags are designed to protect coffee, the beans can quickly become contaminated if the bags are stored improperly,” she says.

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Recycling Sustainability Waste Transportation 138

EATER

JANUARY 9, 2025

Since then, its design has remained largely unchanged. Even though this particular paper product is usually made with 52 percent recycled materials , were cutting down approximately 4,290,000 trees each year in the U.S. The PIZZycle is a meticulously designed container. to meet the annual market need of two billion pizza boxes.

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Recycling Transportation Mobile Ordering Consumer Goods 264

Cheetah

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

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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Sustainability Compost Recycling Loyalty Program 148