Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 6, 2024

These experiences use VR to transport diners to different settings or to tell a story that compliments the meal. Example AR information that could be acquired by viewing the plate or wine glass with your smartphone may include: Ingredients, Sources/Regions, Recipe, Cooking Methods, Calories, Carbs, etc. )

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Daily travel numbers are nearly back to what they were in 2019, according to the Transportation Security Administration ( TSA). On the other hand, those labeled “sustainable” are held to a much higher standard, and they must be made from renewable sources. Source products with sustainability certifications.

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The Rail

JULY 26, 2024

The food and beverage sector is one of the most significant sources of carbon emissions. There are, of course, many ways that restaurants can adopt sustainable practices, but the best place to start is the beginning of the supply chain — specifically, your sourcing. Unfortunately, plastic is a major contributor to pollution.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Another area where the labor shortage is impacting foodservice operators is in the area of truck drivers for the transport of goods. With restaurants still facing some difficulty sourcing their normal ingredients, consistent menu items have fallen through the cracks, and operators have faced the risk of losing their customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2023

Their ingredients are responsibly sourced, prioritizing people, animals, and the environment. Tech solutions with real-time capabilities gather data in one place for a single source of truth, providing analytics that help operators make smarter decisions. Prioritize ESG initiatives. Chipotle famously prioritizes ESG.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The FSMA confirms the primary role of the producer, processor, transportation, distributor, and retail outlet in assuring food safety, requiring the food industry to conduct risk-based hazard analysis and implement preventive controls to minimize identified hazards, and applies to domestic as well as imported foods. .”

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2024

People have become increasingly aware of climate change and the importance of ethical sourcing. What they cannot produce themselves, they source locally. Transportation alone accounts for nearly 20 percent of food-system emissions. Buying locally has been trending for quite a few years for several reasons. What is hyperlocal?

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But for chefs looking to emphasize the latter, it still starts at the source. This radically seasonal, regional restaurant sources its ingredients exclusively from the ocean, climate-adapted farms, and wild plants of the Mid-Atlantic. Also, these foods require fossil fuels to transport them across the ocean and then throughout the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Evolving Consumer Expectations – Consumer expectations continued to evolve in 2023, particularly in the areas of transparency, ethical sourcing, and dietary preferences. Restaurants adapted by providing comprehensive information about ingredients, sourcing practices, and sustainable initiatives.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 9, 2021

Organic food waste can be recycled for use as renewable energy sources. 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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 5, 2024

While commodity shortages, transportation logjams and other disruptions have eased, restaurants and other food service providers continue to apply lessons learned from recent periods of instability to make logistics and resupply processes more nimble and resilient. Modernizing sourcing technology. Regionalized supply chains.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Wasting food while seeing people go hungry is only one aspect of the problem – consider the environmental resources needed to produce, package, and transport, and food waste grows even more concerning. More than ever, we’re seeing threats at the source.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

The steps involved in food production include food processing, transportation of food and food wastage. Furthermore, the increasing demand for food dishes made from naturally sourced ingredients, organic vegan superfoods and vegan protein shakes will become popular. This emits carbon emissions on a large scale.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2024

A daily water truck delivery can be disruptive to the environment, increasing transportation costs and emissions. Sourcing fresh and filtered water directly from the taps reduces this impact by cutting out the middleman.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Lama Patel reinterpreted the stew as hummus, utilizing white beans sourced from Nepals Solu region. But even a few years ago, restaurants like Across, which transport Himalayan cuisine to cities beyond the foothills, seemed impossible.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Most consumers (70 percent) said it is important to know how their food and ingredients are manufactured, prepared, and handled, while 69 percent agreed knowing how their food is sourced is also important. They used Google Trends, a reliable source of big data, to analyze the search interest level for veganism across the world.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is largely attributed to a reduction in transport. Other key trends for restaurant owners to make note of this year include a continued rise in veganism along with a heightened awareness of sustainability, with people looking to dine in more eco-conscious restaurants that use locally sourced ingredients.

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Squirrel Systems

MARCH 5, 2025

restaurantbusinessonline.com Sustainable Sourcing and Regenerative Agriculture Sustainability remains a driving force in the food industry. Restaurants are highlighting locally sourced, organic, and regenerative ingredients, emphasizing seasonality and reducing carbon footprints.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 3, 2020

Government regulations have also elevated its value, setting mandates on how much biofuel must be mixed into petroleum diesel fuel to bring about a specified reduction in transportation emissions. Currently, the EPA requires refiners to blend 20 billion gallons of biofuels (which includes biodiesel and renewable diesel) into their fuel.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Specifically, the toolkit explores how to: Prepare a capital plan for relaunch that carefully considers timing; Protect cash flow and seek additional capital through public and private sector sources; Implement changes such as improved signage, customer communication tools, and marketing to setup the business for recovery; and.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2023

According to the United Nations , the food sector (from production to consumption, including processing, transport and packaging) accounts for 30 percent of the world's total energy consumption and around 22 percent of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 6, 2020

The guide breaks down the bill, cites sources, explains how to go about calculating your loan amount, and breaks down forgiveness terms. Additional wages paid to tipped employees. To learn more, go to www.SBA.gov/Coronavirus. It is focused on two key programs: 1) Paycheck Protection Program. 2) Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2023

Warm wood tones abound, accented by terracotta and greenery, and touches of nostalgia, like individually sourced vintage flour sacks framed on the walls and a custom collage of cutting boards and rolling pins by local artisan Hannah Bailey. The interior is clad with floor-to-ceiling green and white handmade tile.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Many of the operators make the mistake of taking their in-store experience and transporting it to an online experience in its entirety. The most common routing of drivers was 1:1 – pickup one packet of food from the source (restaurant) and deliver it to one destination (customer).

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Blue-Plate Special was a hearty meal that always included meat, potatoes, a vegetable, bread and butter, and ample amounts of coffee. Full-service restaurants would later refer to this as a Table d’hote selection.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

since the 1960s, and are likely the source of the nuts that East Coasters most often see advertised as “American chestnuts.” The next time you spot chestnuts at a market near you, try them out: It might not be able to transport you back to 1870, it may just help make chestnuts part of our country’s future.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They also cause power outages and disrupt transportation and distribution, which increases the price of all goods, including food. Andina sources them mostly from Mexico, where a perfect storm of colder weather , floods , and price manipulations by drug cartels caused prices to fluctuate between $37 and $67 from July 2023 to July 2024.

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EATER

AUGUST 12, 2021

Customs restrictions, high transport costs, and a short shelf life have made the world’s greatest mangoes — grown in Pakistan — difficult to come by in the U.S. In every single case, the mangoes were sourced off WhatsApp. is the second largest importer of mangoes in the world, with the majority sourced from Mexico.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Shortages and sourcing issues are becoming the new normal for restaurant operators. “We Restaurants require a constant supply of raw ingredients, of course, but also other materials — cleaning supplies, plates and glassware, chairs and tables, and so much more — and have felt the effects of these disruptions to shipping and transportation. “In

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Embrace the Suck

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Then throw on top of that the drivers who have to follow strict rules and regulations for transporting food over interstates and you might now see your labor issues as not so bad. You see foodservice distributors are more in the transportation business than the food business. The night team loads the trucks that become your route.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For immigrants across the world, its a well-loved system of transport and trade. Queso aejo, a source of great pride to the Laguna Grande region, is an identifying cultural mark. Fanesha Fabre In my family, a wheel of queso aejo often finds itself tucked away in a suitcase and ferried across the border.

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EATER

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Owner Anthony Mangieri sourced vintage coupes from Italy, and he hopes that in New York City, they call to mind both Italy and the New Jersey ice cream shop that his grandfather owned for decades, though his grandfather’s shop didn’t use them specifically. Their transportive appeal spans the globe.

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EATER

AUGUST 3, 2020

The sausages hovered over freshly sourced chiles from different villages, solam (kokum), tamarind, mangoes, and fish, all spread on newspaper or mats woven from coconut palms. Fighting them off on hot summer days was our main source of entertainment during this long and tedious process, and we fought bravely.

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The Rail

MARCH 31, 2023

There are ways to make your restaurant sustainable: using less water, utilizing energy-efficient appliances, as well as sourcing and servicing local ingredients and seasonal meals available in town. They will show their intentions by shopping at eco-friendly retailers and eating at sustainable restaurants.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Know your source. I realized very early that the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport people to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.”. I offer their insights as a spark that will hopefully give others a chance to breathe deep and wrestle with the realities before them. “I

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Ken Burgin

JANUARY 27, 2020

Export industries – rock lobster exports from Western Australia to China have stopped , because of transport and logistics problems in China. Much of it is delivered at very low cost through an extraordinarily efficient transport system – how will that be affected? What is their Plan B? Plus the ABC and Guardian.

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EATER

JUNE 3, 2020

Food Chain Workers Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain.

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