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Zero Restaurant Food Waste for the Environment and Lower CoGS

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While true zero-restaurant food waste is extremely rare, it can be a meaningful goal. Implementing a zero-waste initiative can help minimize your carbon footprint and may even attract new customers who embrace your environmental friendliness. Additionally, limiting your food waste can improve your restaurant’s bottom line.

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How Pineapples Became the Gucci Purse of 1700s Europe

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Tanner’s bark is a mulch of coarsely powdered oak bark that, as it gently composts, gives off enough heat to keep the soil beneath at a balmy 80 degrees Fahrenheit—heating the pineapple plants evenly and with less steam, which can easily damage them. What a waste,” Beauman explained. Why would you eat that?

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Minimal Waste – Ono’s food truck is designed to be environmentally sustainable. From cups to straws, all of Ono’s consumables are compostable, making Ono more sustainable compared to traditional smoothie establishments. Gathering of visual content to identify potential coaching and training opportunities.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

Modern Restaurant Management

Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers. Taco Bell committed to making all consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025 worldwide. Taco Bell's 2020 Commitments.

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MRM Research Roundup: Halloween-2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumer pressure is mounting to phase out single-use plastics, and replace these with more easily recyclable aluminum and glass, plant-based and compostable “hybrid” plastics, or re-use and re-fill containers. .” Here are some highlights: Single-use plastics: it’s time to go.

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