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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

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Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers. Taco Bell committed to making all consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025 worldwide. Taco Bell's 2020 Commitments.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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Additionally, while other smoothie establishments use gallons of water to clean each blender, Ono’s patent-pending automated self-cleaning blender and robotic systems use 28x less water because it only needs to clean the blade and because it’s blended in the customer’s compostable cup. Bolay Promotes Gutierrez.

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MRM Research Roundup: Halloween-2019 Edition

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Consumer pressure is mounting to phase out single-use plastics, and replace these with more easily recyclable aluminum and glass, plant-based and compostable “hybrid” plastics, or re-use and re-fill containers. percent above the baseline for the period from July 2017 through September 2019. percent above the baseline and 4.0

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