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Four Steps to Manage Restaurant Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

But costs aren't the only problem here; more waste means more hauling fees, landfill fees, increased equipment costs, and more. Whichever your specific goals are, they will fall under one of the following categories: reduce waste production, reuse and recycle. Reuse and Recycle. now recycle their waste.

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Protecting the Planet and Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

When considering the transport element, the method of transport is more significant than distance travelled and avoiding food that has been air-freighted will have the most significant travel-based impact. Owing to the ever-increasing decarbonisation of the electricity supply, electricity is a lower carbon energy source than gas.

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Designing Super Sustainable Restaurant Kitchens

Modern Restaurant Management

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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How do specialty coffee shops filter water for coffee?

Perfect Daily Grind

Firstly, you want to protect your espresso machine and equipment from corrosion or the build-up of limescale, which reduces efficiency. In terms of protecting equipment from corrosion and limescale, higher levels of minerals and compounds in water can leave chalky deposits – especially in espresso machine pipes and boilers.

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How is the home espresso machine market evolving?

Perfect Daily Grind

Filippo Mazzoni is the Coffee Equipment Manager at Gruppo Cimbali. While there is still no substitute for barista training, with the right equipment and enough research, anyone can pull a great espresso shot or prepare a delicious cappuccino. “I Now more than ever, consumers are looking to buy products that are ethically sourced.

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Setting Up A Sustainable Food Truck In 2021

The Restaurant Times

Source Your Raw Materials Locally. It is a better option to rely on local vendors to build a sustainable supply chain as opposed to getting raw materials transported from far-off places. When you source your raw materials from local sources, they are actually fresh. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Trash or Treasure? Used Cooking Oil’s Golden Allure Isn’t Just About its Color

Modern Restaurant Management

In the 1990’s, key players in the rendering industry began producing biofuel from recycled animal fats and cooking oils on a commercial scale. While these mandates help the environment and put safer fuel on our roads, it also can unintentionally promote bad practices if the buyer doesn’t track the material back to its source.

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