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15 Tips for Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

Restaurant365

Start by auditing your food waste. It basically refers to your inventory turnover, whether applied to your inventory as a whole or to an individual ingredient. Compost all remaining food waste. Finally, if there is food waste that you cannot minimize, reuse, or repurpose, your food scraps are excellent inputs for compost.

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How to Reduce Food Waste in Restaurants: 16 Practical Tips

Touch Bistro

Conduct a Food Waste Audit. DOH refers to how long an item has been in storage (bag of potatoes on the back shelf, we’re looking at you). Compost Whenever Possible. Building on the idea of leveraging partnerships to decrease restaurant food waste, if you work with local suppliers, ask if you can provide them with compost.

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Now Is the Time to Make Your Kitchen More Sustainable. Here’s How.

EATER

Energy Star deserves a shoutout,” says Sandra Goldmark, director of campus sustainability and climate action at Barnard College, referring to the Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department program that identifies energy-efficient devices. However, sometimes the greenest thing to do is to stick with what you’ve got.