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Be the Change: How Snooze Prioritizes Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

From compostable and recyclable containers to eco-friendly materials, we're always looking for ways to minimize waste while maintaining the quality and care our Guests expect. Across our restaurants, we prioritize energy and water efficiency through features like LED lighting and low-flow water aerators.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Since 2017, the GFSI has included an assessment of how food secure countries are in light of climate and resilience risks, from exposure to temperature changes and sea level rise to dependency on food imports. However, in order for recycling and composting to succeed, the sorting has to be done properly.

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How can coffee shops reduce single-use cup waste? 

Perfect Daily Grind

As more and more countries implement bans on single-use cups and plastics , we’ve seen the number of biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable alternatives increase. A 2017 report from the UK’s House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee found that only one in 400 single-use cups are properly recycled in the UK.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Restaurants Avoiding Big Delivery Apps Have to Get Creative

EATER

To translate this aesthetic to go, takeout food is creatively wrapped in compostable packaging and adorned with colorful custom labels. We started in 2017 because we wanted to provide a nice service for nice people to have food delivered quickly and affordably by bike! My husband used to be a bike courier in Boston.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

billion valuation in 2017. ” “I have been impressed with Novalent’s groundbreaking technology, research and engineering capabilities since our first discussions in 2017 and I and look forward to advising the team to help Novalent bring critical life-saving protection to their food producing clients in the U.S.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

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.