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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

This zero waste cooking technique will also allow chefs and bartenders to creatively repurpose leftover produce and give it new life. For instance, Metz is leaning into upcycling, zero-waste, excess food remediation initiatives, and providing compostable takeout dinnerware for eco-conscious dining. ” – T.J.

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Tech Meets Tannins: The Role of AI in Modern Event Planning

Modern Restaurant Management

By leveraging predictive analytics, AI provides planners with deep insights into guest preferences, optimizes inventory management, and significantly cuts waste. This precision in forecasting addresses one of the industry's major challenges—excess inventory and waste—head-on.

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Enhancing Guest-Centric Experiences with QR Code Technology and Time-Tested Human Connections

Modern Restaurant Management

Tech’s Role in a People-Centric Industry By collecting data on guest preferences, restaurants can also anticipate ordering trends, resulting in cost savings and reduced food waste. The future of dining might feature meta-events, sending diners on a virtual journey to the vineyard where their wine was cultivated.

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Adding Sustainable Alcohol Options to Your Restaurant

The Rail

Switching to sustainable drinks can also help you connect with local stakeholders, as buying from micro-breweries and local vineyards can lower transport-related carbon costs due to the supplier’s proximity to your restaurant. Low Waste Wines Vineyards and wineries around the world are pivoting towards more sustainable solutions.

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An Eater’s Guide to Visiting (and Drinking) Champagne 

EATER

Chardonnay represents approximately 70% of vineyards and (almost always) makes up 100% of Blanc de Blancs Champagnes, characterized by its exclusively white grape composition. acre vineyard adjacent to the winery purchased back in 1935 and largely considered one of the region’s most exceptional terroirs.

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The Tasting Menu at the End of the World

EATER

About two hours north of San Francisco, it exemplifies Northern California’s magnetism, with dramatic Pacific views, redwood forests, and rolling hills lined with vineyard rows. There is no waste.”. When the Connaughtons first thought about moving to the area in 1999, they were taken by its pastoral charm. “We

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LUKE Wines

The Wine Knitter

LUKE partners with vineyards that grow the highest quality wine grapes in the most socially, economically, and environmentally responsible manner possible. Investment in special machinery reduces water usage, and all wastewater from winemaking is collected, treated, and reused in vineyard irrigation. ” Photo courtesy of LUKE.