2025 Recycling Sustainability 
Modern Restaurant Management
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.
Modern Restaurant Management
JUNE 13, 2022
Starbucks recently announced that it aims to have every customer either use their own personal mug or cup or borrow a reusable cup from their local Starbucks — by 2025. This change will directly contribute to the coffee chain’s 2030 sustainability goals to conserve water usage by 50 percent and achieve carbon neutral green coffee.
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Modern Restaurant Management
OCTOBER 22, 2019
If catering companies want to keep up with consumer trends, they must start focussing on sustainably and how their products can support social change. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and World Economic Forum, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2025. Cheap and easy solutions are no longer enough.
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 12, 2020
As restaurants around the country look towards reopening, Edward Lee and Lindsey Ofcacek, director of The LEE Initiative are committed to helping reset the supply chains for farmers and restaurant operators who are committed to sustainable food. Dunkin' Sustainability. franchisees for use in their restaurants.
Goliath Consulting
MARCH 14, 2020
On the other hand, restaurants with innovative, sustainable packaging can increase traffic among consumers. Sustainability. A Nielsen study reported that consumers are increasingly willing to pay more for sustainable brands (10). This probably explains the trend of previously-recycled and reusable packaging. Conclusion.
EATER
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Vermont established a universal recycling law that requires separation and diversion of food scraps from the waste stream. It can be done in a really classy way, if you actually frame it as a sustainable discount [and] you put signage indicating this is for the benefit of waste reduction,” he says.
Lavu
JUNE 6, 2025
Running a successful restaurant in 2025 means more than just great food—it requires smart financial decisions. Reducing restaurant expenses is critical for improving profitability and sustainability. Taking proactive steps to minimize waste can save money and make the food industry more sustainable and responsible.
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