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Sustaining the Earth and Customers’ Goodwill: The Impact of IoT

Modern Restaurant Management

So technicians climb into their trucks, making three extra 40-mile round trips to complete the necessary repairs. This is just one of the questions restaurants are tackling in their focus on sustainability. Not only are restaurants themselves driving this sustainability movement, so are their customers.

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Surviving COVID-19: 7 Financing Options for Restaurants

7 Shifts

Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) were also a hot commodity, but the government has since limited application to the agriculture industry—so they're not any use to restaurant owners at this time. A short term loan can get you the cash you need in as little as 24 hours, but that speed comes at the price of higher interest rates.

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Meet Alaska’s Last Milkman

EATER

Since he started milking in Delta Junction a year ago, he’s found that locals who rarely get really fresh milk or have never lived anywhere near a dairy farm have a thirst for his mostly grass-fed, nonhomogenized, glass-bottled stuff, even at a higher price. Outside of Alaska, most dairymen are raising cattle and milking, not processing food.

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

Increasingly, we’re seeing companies that are looking to provide food via convenient and affordable formats that have attractive unit economics or are more relevant to emerging consumer trends — bringing food to customers where they live, work, eat, play, shop, and so on. There were some 180 food halls in the U.S. In the U.K.

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Where to Eat in 2022

EATER

Where to find the best food around the world in 2022. They’re delicious, too, but there’s good food everywhere. These stories are told by a diverse cast of chefs, home cooks, street hawkers, and restaurateurs, all people who make us excited to travel, cooking the foods that make us excited to eat.

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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 company states the new electric ship will reduce its annual carbon emissions by the equivalent of 40,000 diesel trucks. United States Department of Agriculture report states China’s 2022 coffee imports to increase 5%. The acquisition company states the app can improve equity and sustainability in the coffee supply chain.

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The Lost Soybeans of Okinawa

EATER

In an excerpt from “Eating to Extinction,” author Dan Saladino visits Okinawa where one farmer is hoping to bring back one of the world’s rarest soybeans Our food supply is suffering from a diversity crisis. This is the argument Dan Saladino lays out in his book Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them.