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Skip the Straw: How Restaurants Can Make an Impact

Modern Restaurant Management

Plastic waste is no longer a “problem”: it is a full-blown epidemic. Every year, roughly eight million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans from coastal nations. As a restaurant, real dedication to solving the plastic waste problem is going to take a bigger commitment than just straws.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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For a number of other former employees, what Blue Hill at Stone Barns offered wasn’t worth the price. COMPOST oven: 155 degrees. This was the latest iteration of Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ compost oven, which cooks food in the most sustainable way imaginable — with heat from waste being recycled on-site.

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Hawai?i’s Mushroom Boom Is Here

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He plucks them from composted wood chips nestled in cardboard boxes, and carefully puts them in a clean new box. Yang smiles as he shows off his heaping compost pile: He says he reclaims three to five tons of organic green waste every few weeks to produce substrate, the woody equivalent of soil, for his mushrooms.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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From beer made from rejected cereal pieces to containers made from organic mushroom waste, food waste will lead the way for more sustainable consumption and innovation. Global food prices are rising worldwide. Twenty-six countries in the index report food price inflation of 5 percent or higher in the past year.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

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Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. is rolling out a suite of features and extended price cuts through March 2021 to support restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic. billion valuation in 2017.

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Another Tasty Visit to Alentejo

The Wine Knitter

Herdade De Coelheiros Coelheiros Red, 2017 This is a 50/50 blend of Aragonez and Alicante Bouschet. SRP: $48 WASP Highlight: Carmin composts all organic waste from the winemaking process (grape pomace and lees) into fertilizer. All of these wines are well priced and very pleasing to the palate. Alcohol: 13.5%

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-February 2020-Valentine’s Day Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

percent above the baseline for the period between January 1, 2017 and January 20, 2020. Where Popeyes trailed its poultry rival throughout 2017, 2018 and most of 2019, the new product put the brand on nearly equal footing with KFC. Food Waste is Higher. Top sellers included the 12oz 24 Pack, Regular and Sugar Free.

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