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How Better Cooking Oil Management Enhances Efficiency and Reduces Costs

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To learn more about how cooking oil management can help with this goal, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to John Michals, COO of Filta Environmental Kitchen Services. What Can Be Done : Ther are long-term cost savings associated with sustainable practices, including oil filtration and recycling services.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

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Use tech tools to track supplier certifications to be sure your suppliers are consistently practicing proper food safety and quality protocols. Donate unused but still good food to food banks and soup kitchens, reducing waste and feeding the food insecure in your community. Recycle and compost. Optimize your supply chain.

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Welcoming Customers Back: How to Resell the Dine-in Experience as Restaurants Reopen

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Now that states are beginning to loosen their lockdown restrictions and reopen small businesses like restaurants, it’s fair to wonder how drastically the dine-in experience will have to change to accommodate the new safety requirements. How does that work with the new safety requirements? It may seem like a difficult balance.

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Checklist For Reopening Your Restaurant

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However, as long as you keep the spotlight on food safety – sanitization, employee health monitoring and personal hygiene, and social distancing – your restaurant won’t be a hub of contagion. They are cost-effective and reduce the likelihood of contamination – buy disposable menus in bulk and recycle them.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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Increasing Regulatory Pressures on the Food Service Industry I expect more states and municipalities to implement stronger organics recycling laws in 2025, mandating food waste diversion for commercial food service operators. This shift will likely be complemented by an increased focus on reducing waste generated from animal products.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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” as our ability to staff a kitchen and invite guests into our dining room was replaced with whatever pandemic-friendly forms of food service our creativity could conjure. Waste management programs like recycling, composting, and any food-waste reduction measuring done can also help in this category.

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Managing Your Restaurant’s Maintenance & Sanitization During COVID-19

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With all restaurants under extreme pressure of heightened safety and potential staff shortage, you can delegate the reactivation and re-scoping of your recurring preventive maintenance plans to your trusted repair and maintenance solution provider. A restaurant’s health code depends on it!