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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. For instance, AI can help drive the following benefits: Improving transparency throughout the supply chain.

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Certifications and direct trade in the coffee industry

Perfect Daily Grind

The idea is simple: by reducing the number of intermediaries in the supply chain, the farmer receives a higher percentage of the final sale price. There is also no specific “direct trade” certification for coffee – and as such, the definition of it can be used rather loosely in the coffee industry. So where does that leave us?

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Amid Influx of New Employees, Restaurants Must Build and Reinforce Brand Excellence

Modern Restaurant Management

To increase key metrics for your restaurant – including customer loyalty, sales, and profits – establish and maintain an exemplary food safety culture, where all employees work collaboratively to maximize safety and minimize risks. Ensure safety all along the supply chain. Tech is essential to this effort.

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

We're all here for it! Coffee shops can be so much more than a place to grab a cup of joe and a croissant. They are places where friends and family gather, where ideas are formed and spread, and where important work gets done. At their best, they're an essential part of their community—a third place beyond work and the home. Table of Contents.

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Medellín’s Cafes and Farms Are Taking Back Colombian Coffee

EATER

They’ve also helped reshape dynamics around the supply chain and the economic significance of Colombian coffee. Medellín’s bounty of coffee beans. In the blacksmith’s house, a wooden hoe. Though the country is known around the world for its smooth coffee, producers have long exported the best beans to foreign markets.

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THINK GLOBALLY – ACT LOCALLY

Culinary Cues

Our first instinct is to introvert, to protect ourselves and those close to us – yes, to horde supplies and discount the needs of others in lieu of finding some comfort in preparedness. We are naturally skeptical, inherently frightened, and for the most part void of any real plan moving forward. This is, without a doubt, essential.

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The New Order: Five Important Focus Areas for Greener Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

One of the largest problems on the hands of restaurant and catering professionals through the unpredictable supply and demand of COVID-19 was food waste. Problems with supply left a deficit of some items and a surplus of others. Problems with supply left a deficit of some items and a surplus of others.