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

EATER

“Community, environment. It’s part of my DNA. As a chef, I have a responsibility to do my best to create good environments for people, customers, and the community,” says Marnell-Suhanosky. When food waste goes to landfills, it creates methane , a powerful greenhouse gas. produces the equivalent annual emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants.

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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, 13 Jun: Gesha scores 98 points at 2025 BoP, potential IPO for Pret A Manger & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the week. Editor’s note Best of Panama (BoP) is always guaranteed to grab headlines, but this year’s competition was especially newsworthy. This set the precedent for future astonishing auction prices, which have since surpassed US $10,000/kg. billion in sales.

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Navigating the Supply Chain in the Restaurant Industry

Goliath Consulting

According to this McKinsey Report, these “changes in consumer behavior continue to ripple through the US food and agricultural supply chains” even today (1). Since the start of the pandemic, safety measures such as social distancing, lockdowns and mask-wearing have completely changed our understanding of how consumers spend on food.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

In the context of 2024, we anticipate the cultivated meat industry expanding its horizons by forging more meaningful partnerships with a diverse array of stakeholders, such as governments, large industrial and agricultural players, NGOs, academia, and investors. The cultivated meat industry is entering its next chapter.

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How I Got My Job: Leading the Dining Program at a Working Farm and Writing Cookbooks

EATER

I get to work with the agriculture teams, which manage our vegetable and grain production, and the retail team, which leads the farm store and the online farm store. I wanted to really give people a resource for how to cook with all of this produce that we were growing,” she explains. The cooks and I take that and brainstorm dishes.

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How I Got My Job: Connecting Top Restaurants and Home Cooks with Heirloom Corn and Masa

EATER

Although he headed to college thinking he would be a lawyer, like his father and grandfather before him, Gaviria found his passion for food impossible to ignore, so he ditched his legal pursuits in favor of an internship at an agricultural estate in Tuscany, where he learned about vegetable farming and animal husbandry. What did it involve?