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Effective Promotional Ingredients for Going Green

Modern Restaurant Management

A 2018 National Restaurant Association (NRA) State of Restaurant Sustainability survey found that a restaurant’s sustainability efforts can impact a consumer’s choice of restaurants. Connect with these bloggers to see if they will post a blog entry in exchange for an opportunity to dine at the restaurant.

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Restaurant Sustainability Efforts and Customer Attraction

The Restaurant Group

Today, chefs, owners, employees, and consumers have taken on personal awareness of best practices for the environment and the NRA 2018 State of Restaurant Sustainability Survey results show that it is having an impact on how restaurants operate and on consumers choices. 14% compost some food waste. Nearly 50% track food waste.

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Restaurant Sustainability: Is Your Waste a Waste?

The Restaurant Group

Did you know a 2018 study done by The National Restaurant Association shows that out of 500 businesses that they conducted surveys with, about half were monitoring their waste levels? The numbers are up from before, and will continue rising, due to large-scale to mom-and-pop restaurants finding more ways to reduce and utilize waste.

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

EATER

At the end of her externship, Huo turned down a full-time position because she felt that the long hours — she frequently wrote her blog posts in the middle of the night after working a 70-hour week — and low wages brought out the worst in people. COMPOST oven: 155 degrees. Amy Huo started in 2016 as an unpaid extern.

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Switching to Biodegradable Utensils & Straws

KaTom

This operational change is at odds with an ongoing environmentally conscious push to eliminate the use of plastic straws that, by 2018, had already ushered in city-wide bans across the country and calls for biodegradable alternatives. The post Switching to Biodegradable Utensils & Straws appeared first on KaTom Blog.

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MRM Research Roundup: Halloween-2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

They collected and analyzed sales data between January 2018 and July 2019 from over 10,000 restaurants nationwide, measured the sales performance of each item, and ranked each item based on its overall and trending popularity. percent mark set in July 2018 and was saw 3.0 percent above in 2018. National Menu Trends.

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