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

EATER

Independent restaurants can get help through utility energy audit and equipment rebate programs—if their state has them. The restaurant, called Shia, will strive to be a zero-gas, zero-plastics kitchen that will test different sustainability practices and share its learnings with other small, independent restaurants.

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Tips to Navigate a Perfect Storm That’s Threatening Our Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

Today’s digital solutions allow you to audit and evaluate your supply chain’s sustainability and resilience. Vertical farming is an agricultural process where crops are grown vertically, in controlled indoor environments, rather than in traditional, horizontal rows outside. Use tech tools to manage your supply chain.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The previous spike we saw in community supported agriculture and grocery has started to dip (down 54 percent and 26 percent, respectively), as people head back into restaurants and cook at home less. Takeout and delivery has continued to sustain interest on Yelp, still up 148 percent based on consumer interest relative to pre-pandemic levels.

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Why Zero-Waste Training is Essential for Your Restaurant Team

The Rail

Not using ingredients to their fullest may mean you’re over-ordering, which puts greater pressure on local agriculture. Investment in training your staff in zero-waste can boost sustainability. Waste audits: Train your staff on how to conduct effective waste audits.

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3 Simple Ways Restaurants Can Reduce Food Waste this Holiday Season

Xtra Chef

The guide serves as a resource for restaurant sustainability directors, owners and other leaders in the industry who are developing and implementing food waste reduction strategies. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 1 in 9 Americans are food insecure. Donate Leftover Food. According to the U.S.

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Understanding the co-operative model in Kenya’s coffee sector

Perfect Daily Grind

These traded a number of agricultural commodities, including coffee. As of 2017, there were more than 22,800 registered co-ops in the country which traded a range of agricultural crops, although this number may have changed over the past five years. When Kenya became independent in 1963, there were around 1,000 registered co-ops.

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The Top 10 U.S. Food Vendors: Do you know everything you should about your restaurant food vendors?

Marketman

Number 10: Food Services of America (FSA) – In response to a growing number of restaurants heeding patrons demands for healthy, natural and organic meals, FSA created the SNOR (Sustainable Natural Organic Regional) program. Committed to the wise use of resources, FSA established Working Intelligently for a Sustainable Enterprise (WISE).