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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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The Rise of Sustainable Food Sourcing: Considerations for Seafood Restaurateurs

Modern Restaurant Management

Globally, aquaculture supplies more than 50 percent of all seafood produced for human consumption—and that percentage will continue to rise, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Sustainable Food Sourcing Is Worth the Effort. Sourcing seafood sustainably takes a bit more work but is worth it.

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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. What are certification programmes?

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What Food Supply Chain News Means to You and Your Restaurant

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After having served the restaurant industry for nearly a decade, we know that one of the greatest challenges in managing a restaurant business is predicting supply and demand trends and understanding procurement challenges. Meet Our Food Supply Chain Specialist. Need help making sense of food supply chain news?

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Roadmap to Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

Once sustainability rises to the top of the to-do list, the next hurdle is lack of information about the sources of the food they are buying and the practices used to produce it. Restaurant operators can think of sustainability in three phases: sourcing, operations, and disposal. Actions like waste reduction are actually cost savers.

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Coffee News Recap, 2 Sep: Ethiopian government reports US $1.4 billion earnings from 2021/22 coffee exports, volumes of sustainably-sourced green coffee increased by 29% in 2021 & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Four producer groups in Nicaragua and Sierra Leone have received the certification, which is certified by the Regenerative Organic Alliance. According to the report, the volumes of sustainably-sourced green coffee increased by 29% on 2021. First Regenerative Organic Certified coffee products launched in the US. Wed, 31 Aug.

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A LETTER TO CULINARY SCHOOL GRADUATES

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First and foremost – congratulations on earning your degree or certificate. Know that the degree or certificate is more than an acknowledgement of the skills and knowledge that you have gained – it represents your level commitment and discipline that will serve you well.