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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurant sales were lower for November of 2018, November of 2019 did not include the same holiday headwinds. This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies.

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How to Reduce and Track Restaurant Food Waste

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For example, Toast’s 2019 Restaurant Success Report states that 38% of restaurants reuse kitchen trimmings to reduce waste. Food waste is a serious environmental and humanitarian issue. But restaurant food waste poses a huge problem for overall profitability in the business: The U.S. What Causes Restaurant Food Waste?

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3 Simple Ways Restaurants Can Reduce Food Waste this Holiday Season

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The season of giving thanks and celebrating with friends, family and colleagues is upon us. And, with it, comes a rise in reservations for holiday parties, special family outings and overall overindulgence. The Issue of Food Waste in the Restaurant Industry. Food waste in the restaurant industry is real. Let’s take a peep at the numbers.

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How to Reduce Food Waste in Restaurants: 16 Practical Tips

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The best way to do this is to create a food waste tracker (this can be as simple as a hard copy sheet of paper) to account for all of your front- and back-of-house waste for a given period of time, such as one week. Running a foodservice operation involves a lot of moving parts. Different Types of Restaurant Food Waste.

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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. Ono Food Co.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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But former employees say that narrative often obscured a more complicated reality. This story contains a detailed account of a sexual assault. In November 2013, a 22-year-old cook named John Schaible arrived in Pocantico Hills, New York, to work at Blue Hill at Stone Barns. All I could think about is how sad it is.

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MRM Research Roundup: Halloween-2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

They collected and analyzed sales data between January 2018 and July 2019 from over 10,000 restaurants nationwide, measured the sales performance of each item, and ranked each item based on its overall and trending popularity. National Menu Trends. The team at Upserve just released their latest trends report. Order for Pickup Stats.

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