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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Donation, composting, and organic recycling are all available options to restaurant operators attempting to reduce the amount of food scraps entering their solid waste bins. Composting. The Green Restaurant Association claims that close to 95 percent of restaurants’ waste streams could be recycled or composted.

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Effective Promotional Ingredients for Going Green

Modern Restaurant Management

This preference for environmentally conscious brands makes it critical for restaurants to find ways to integrate sustainability into operations and develop a plan to promote these sustainability initiatives through various channels including digital, marketing materials, and streamlined internal communications and messaging.

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7 Tips to Reduce Food Waste & Increase Profit Margins

Cheetah

San Francisco’s mandatory composting ordinance, for example, encourages residents and businesses to reduce their landfill fees by shifting as much as possible to composting. To drive profits, restaurants need to explain how food is being saved and how leftovers are mobilized to help the community.

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7 Ways to Reduce Food Waste in Your Restaurant

Lavu

Communicate transparently with customers and display temperature logs to build trust. Compost Any Wasted Food Your Restaurant Can Converting organic waste into compost is an environmentally friendly practice, transforming waste into nutrient-rich soil.

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How can coffee shops reduce single-use cup waste? 

Perfect Daily Grind

As more and more countries implement bans on single-use cups and plastics , we’ve seen the number of biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable alternatives increase. Furthermore, while biodegradable and compostable single-use cups are designed to break down faster, this largely depends on how they are disposed of.

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Hospo Reset’s Product of the Week

Ken Burgin

Great Wrap – the cling wrap that’s completely compostable. JobAdder is recruitment software, to track applicants, manage resumes and handle communication. TalkBox – use your customer data to create targeted, personalised communications based on their behaviour, automatically. easy to edit.

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Restaurant Sustainability is About Success, Not Just Recycling.

Ken Burgin

Melissa Goffin from Redgum BBQ talked about how central sustainability is to everything they do – from using local timber for the BBQ, choice of packaging, composting, waste reduction and energy use. Sustainable businesses are fast with communication because it keeps the back of house on their game and builds trust with customers.