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Revolutionizing Restaurant Supply Chains: The Impact of AI on Transparency, Validation, Verification, and Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

AI can also improve sustainability within restaurants – and throughout their supply chains – with huge benefits that include waste and carbon emissions reduction, cost savings, and meeting consumer demand. Here, AI can help verify suppliers’ compliance with audit and certification standards. Improving sustainability.

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Understanding the co-operative model in Kenya’s coffee sector

Perfect Daily Grind

When it comes to the coffee sector in Kenya, co-operatives organise the processing , grading, packing, transport, and marketing of members’ coffee – with the latter sometimes including the support of marketing agents in the country. Traditionally, many co-operatives include several wet mills (also called factories).

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Why Zero-Waste Training is Essential for Your Restaurant Team

The Rail

It also increases the use of fuel and release of emissions during product transport. Investment in training your staff in zero-waste can boost sustainability. Waste audits: Train your staff on how to conduct effective waste audits.

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How can coffee shops reduce single-use cup waste? 

Perfect Daily Grind

There are a number of sustainability issues across the entire coffee supply chain , but none have quite received the same level of attention as single-use cups. A 2017 report from the UK’s House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee found that only one in 400 single-use cups are properly recycled in the UK. Enjoyed this?

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

In addition, there is an increasing emphasis on sustainability with our restaurant customers. We’ll move towards a continuous quality model with more self-assessments and collaborative coaching vs. traditional onsite audits. Moving forward, organizations will stop doing the same annual audits for all suppliers.

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

The Restaurant Times

As per the Food Sustainability Index, a person wastes 494 pounds of food per year in the UAE, which is way higher than in the USA and Europe. Conduct Waste Audits. You need to conduct waste audits to know the exact amount of food waste that gets generated from various sources. Categorize The Waste.

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AP Automation for Restaurants is No Longer a Nice-to-Have. Here’s Why

Xtra Chef

AP for restaurants is notoriously difficult to manage, ridden with complications that arise from handling, organizing, and transporting paper from invoices that originate in a busy, messy back of house. No restaurant can afford to do things the old-fashioned way anymore; it’s not sustainable.