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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

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Chef-owner Colleen Marnell-Suhanosky opened the restaurant in 2013 after working for renowned Boston chef Lydia Shire and at various East Coast restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern in New York City. When food waste goes to landfills, it creates methane , a powerful greenhouse gas. Community, environment. It’s part of my DNA.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

Read any article enumerating the current or emerging trends in restaurants and retail and you will see ideas of health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and brand authenticity coming to the fore. I have been fortunate to work with Sleepy Bee Cafe since its founding in 2013.

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

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Dash From the Past: A Decade Delivered In 2013, things started off small, with a simple idea. Today, we’re looking back on the decade to see how much our tastes have changed since 2013 and what’s stayed consistent — our passion for chicken sandwiches, for one. Since 2013, more than 600 million (!)

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Winnowing Away at Food Waste and Epic Generosity

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Winnow Raises $20M to Fight Food Waste. The company, with US offices located in Iowa City, has recently made headlines in the country, having been selected as a food waste innovator and recipient of the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Kroger Foundation Grant. 63 million tons of food is wasted every year. ” Marc Zornes.

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Changes at McDonald’s and Reducing Food Waste

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This edition of MRM News Bites features McDonalds, the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, OpenTable, Ordermark, Hudson Group, Hakkasan Group , Waitr and Checkers, ICV Partners, Restaurant Technologies, Diebold Nixdorf and Alto-Shaam. " Reducing Food Waste. Changes at the Top for McDonald's.

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Mutual Aid Groups Reckon With the Future: ‘We Don’t Want This to Just Be a Fad’

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We want this to be a movement where we can be sustainable over the winter,” says Ash Godfrey, one of the people behind Chicago’s Love Fridge project. If we’re giving people what they need to actually grow food themselves, that’s going to be much more sustainable in the long term at addressing food security.”.

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What’s Next?: MRM Restaurant Survival Guide Updates

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Timer is an easy to use application to create timers for any activity that requires time tracking from cooked and cooled food, to non-food items that require tracking such as routine cleaning and waste removal. MenuDrive is offering free online ordering and CRM software, supporting internal or third party courier delivery for U.S.