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

EATER

Schaible kept a notebook in his back pocket to write down everything he learned: how sheep-grazing patterns affect flavor, the proper way to butcher old dairy cattle. No chef has shaped the 21st-century conversation about the connections between agriculture , cuisine , ecology , health , and climate change more profoundly than Barber.

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Coffee News Recap, 6 May: Vietnamese coffee production could drop 10% in 2022/23, China’s coffee imports to increase by 5% in 2022 & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

The US roaster visited the White House as part of President Biden’s promotion of small business growth in the US. United States Department of Agriculture report states China’s 2022 coffee imports to increase 5%. Mon, 2 May. Beans Coffee Club becomes official coffee partner for electronics retailer Currys.

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Hawai?i’s Mushroom Boom Is Here

EATER

He plucks them from composted wood chips nestled in cardboard boxes, and carefully puts them in a clean new box. Yang smiles as he shows off his heaping compost pile: He says he reclaims three to five tons of organic green waste every few weeks to produce substrate, the woody equivalent of soil, for his mushrooms. I love eating them.”

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