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

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As part of creating that good environment, she’s taken multiple steps to cut Rifrullo’s carbon footprint, including composting all food scraps, one of the most important steps restaurants can take to combat climate change. For takeout, she uses compostable containers and wooden silverware.

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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. Second, the shift of Thanksgiving into December of 2019 converts from tailwind to headwind this month. percent from 2018 to 2019, sales for the whole weekend only increased about four percent. First, at 2.1

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

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Goldman says that though employees are trained to speak on the environmental benefits of plant-based eating, “it’s not as embedded in our cashier training or our interactions with consumers, because we really are focused on positive guest experience.” The environmental mission can come later.

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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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Can you run a zero-waste coffee shop?

Perfect Daily Grind

Lenka Kriz is a co-owner of Cat & Cow Coffee in New South Wales, Australia – a zero-waste coffee shop she co-founded with her husband in 2019. “[For We also use compostable and recyclable items, so our landfill bin is only a quarter-full every two weeks.”. “It’s about creating a community of people with similar mindsets.”.

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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. ” Presto's New Vision.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

There are kitchen robots you can easily “train” by having them exactly replicate your arm movements and perform highly complicated yet repetitive cooking and preparation tasks. In 2019, Coconut Bliss found success partnering with popular California spot, Mel’s Drive – In, a Los Angeles staple since 1947.