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How to Engage Your Employees in Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

2016 reports say that 83 percent of millennials-students and teenagers- are more loyal to companies engaged in environmental issues. If you’re reducing food waste or saving energy and need employees on board, read on. In creating strategies for a recycling and food waste plan, ask them how they would put that into practice.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

By encouraging diners to book and pay in advance, restaurants can better manage food waste, curb no shows and drive much needed revenue. billion dollars in 2016 and experienced a staggering 300 percent surge to a $4.65 Every year, over 40 billion pieces of single-use plastic cutlery are produced and discarded as waste.

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Changes at McDonald’s and Reducing Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

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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The Future of Restaurants Depends on Universal Healthcare

EATER

Ray’s seminal book The Ethnic Restaurateur , published in 2016, reveals the changing tastes of the American diner, as seen through the cuisines they eat and the livelihoods of the immigrant restaurateurs that make those dishes. But I’m pessimistic about others,” Ray said in a 2016 interview with the Washington Post.

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

Modern Restaurant Management

Dunkin’ is also on track to fully transition to new, recyclable hot coffee cup lids in all of its U.S. Dunkin’s transition to paper cups will remove approximately one billion foam cups from the waste stream annually. The company is also on track to be fully transitioned to recyclable hot coffee cup lids in its U.S.

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Adding Sustainable Alcohol Options to Your Restaurant

The Rail

Low Waste Wines Vineyards and wineries around the world are pivoting towards more sustainable solutions. Modern wineries like the Fetzer Vineyards in California have been net-zero since 2016 and employ a series of methods, including: Installing on-site solar panels that produce 1 million kWh of renewable energy per year; Diverting of 99.2%

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MRM Franchise Feed: Randy’s Donuts Plans Rise and Burger King Makes Sustainable Commitment

Modern Restaurant Management

Their commitment has resulted in an average of 30 to 60 new restaurant openings each year since 2016, and a pipeline of more than 500 units committed to be developed in the coming years. This could translate to an additional 500 to 1,500 metric tons of paper waste eliminated annually across the U.S. Away From Home, Kraft Heinz.

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