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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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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

EATER

This puts restaurateurs in a precarious position of having to communicate choices and challenges without sullying the fun of eating out. Customers who are attracted to sustainable eating “come find us because of our sourcing,” he adds, but “there’s only so many places we can communicate that.” without interruptions.

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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

” 2024 Liquid Insights Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits announced findings from its 2024 Liquid Insights Tour , a coast-to-coast educational initiative focused on exploring the top trends shaping the wine and spirits industry. Rum continues to find new consumers through education and quality changing perceptions of rum.

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How To Reduce Food Waste in Restaurants

The Restaurant Group

Educating and empowering them fosters a collective mission for sustainability. Employee Education on Waste Reduction Raise Awareness : Train staff on food wastes environmental and financial impacts. Foster Communication : Encourage staff to share ideas for improvement. Recycle Properly : Train staff to sort recyclables.

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Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Is Dynamic Pricing the Solution?

EATER

While creating such systems, especially the infrastructure to separate food waste to turn into compost, are critical to the fight against climate change, there is also a growing emphasis on prevention. Most stores are really concerned about their brand image and want to be seen as selling premium products,” Lapis says.

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Restaurant Experts Talk Sustainability Tips and Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

It was a wonderful opportunity to educate our guests on bycatch fish (which are the fish picked up in large nets that are typically thrown out) as well as smaller breeds and not the big-name fish (such as halibut, albacore, etc.), and offer an eco-friendly approach that doesn’t deplete the supply chain. Delaware North.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Celebrating the sustainable, health and cost benefits of lab-grown food will be crucial in educating consumers about nature-identical alternatives. "Less than 15 percent of restaurant food waste is collected for composting, and these efforts have primarily focused on collecting food scraps from the kitchen," the study said. "However,

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