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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Donation, composting, and organic recycling are all available options to restaurant operators attempting to reduce the amount of food scraps entering their solid waste bins. Audit the waste stream and try to identify current trends and how much waste is actually being generated. Composting. Organic Recycling.

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Takeaways from Toast’s Restaurant Success Report

Xtra Chef

Fluctuating food prices (shoutout to the avocado) and rising labor costs aren’t making it any easier. Others are modifying menu items or raising prices to offset rising costs. Others are modifying menu items or raising prices to offset rising costs. Running a restaurant isn’t easy. Enter inventory management.

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6 Ways To Enhance Waste Management System To Reduce Restaurant Operating Costs

The Restaurant Times

Conduct Waste Audits. You need to conduct waste audits to know the exact amount of food waste that gets generated from various sources. The goals and benefits of the waste audit must be clear to the team so that it can proactively contribute to the audit and come together to refine the waste management system.

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Coffee News Recap, 30 Sep: SCA announces 2022 WBC and WBrC winners at MICE, new study links daily coffee consumption with increased longevity & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

OCRI uses recyclable and compostable packaging and has reduced food waste in its coffee shops to less than 3%. Mon, 19 Sep – New York City’s pension funds investors call for audit of Starbucks workers’ rights. Ozone Coffee and Hasbean (OCRI) achieve B Corp certification.

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Energy Efficiency Strategies for Forward-Thinking Restaurants

The Rail

Conducting an Energy Audit The first step towards improving restaurant efficiency is conducting an energy audit. An audit can help identify outdated equipment that is consuming more resources than necessary. Dining establishments can conduct the audits online or hire a professional to perform a detailed assessment.

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The Return of Sustainable Restaurant Operations: 6 Easy Ways to Get Started

Notch

GET CREATIVE WITH FOOD WASTE Start by: Reducing food waste by Avoiding, Repurposing, and Composting. Expired ingredients, food scraps, leftovers and other waste that is thrown away can be composted, repurposed or avoided. Or check out an app like Good to Go , which allows consumers to purchase your surplus food at a lower price.

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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. average of $1.45

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