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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. “Community, environment. It’s part of my DNA. produces the equivalent annual emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants.

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

EATER

The tool from the East Coast vegan chain — a digital take on a split-flap mechanical display that appears on its website and in the chain’s ordering app — estimates the amounts of water, land, CO2, and oil saved by eating vegan burgers. These numbers are largely hypothetical. Congratulations. The environmental mission can come later.

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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

From salted egg yolks and chili crunch fusions to mushroom-infused teas and freeze-dried fruit powder garnishes, Kimpton’s in-house experts share the standout ingredients, menu items and techniques that will come to the table in 2025.

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Coffee News Recap, 4 Jul: C price drops below US $3/lb, four new World Coffee Champions crowned in Geneva & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

The new printer is capable of high-quality resolution of up to 1200 x 1200 dots per inch, and can print across the front, back, sides, and bottom of coffee bags. The pods are compostable in commercial facilities, and the beans are sourced from cooperatives in Colombia, Ethiopia, and Yunnan. lb over the next 15 months.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Holiday Traffic Not Enough. Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6

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How to Reduce and Track Restaurant Food Waste

Xtra Chef

Department of Agriculture estimates that restaurants waste $162 billion in food each year. Refires occur when a plate of food is sent back to the kitchen and needs to be remade. To forecast your par levels, refer back to past sales data. Food waste is a serious environmental and humanitarian issue.

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3 Simple Ways Restaurants Can Reduce Food Waste this Holiday Season

Xtra Chef

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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