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Gen Z Wants More Than Good Food — Here’s How to Keep Them Coming Back

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This generation prioritizes social responsibility over traditional brand loyalty and gravitates toward integrity, sustainability, and values-driven experiences. ” By openly communicating these standards and staying true to them, restaurants can build trust with a generation that demands integrity in food sourcing and preparation.

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Building Resilient and Less-Stress Restaurant Operations

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Discover practical strategies to reduce stress and establish clear standard operating procedures, or SOPs, to create a sustainable work environment. Sustainable SOPs for Efficient Operations To increase a restaurant’s operational efficiency, you need clear and sustainable SOPs.

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Roadmap to Sustainability

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There is not one simple thing a company can do to be more sustainable–there are dozens that need to done every day, but they are doable. Over the past 30 years, she has been the architect of their groundbreaking approach to responsible purchasing and a leading force behind their pivotal shift toward sustainability.

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How to Engage Your Employees in Sustainability

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Smart restaurant owners understand sustainability benefits their bottom line and customer base. if you’ve decided to get started, how do you get employees excited about sustainability too? Your employees will complete the majority of your sustainability actions. Guess who cares about sustainability?

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Revolutionizing Restaurant Supply Chains: The Impact of AI on Transparency, Validation, Verification, and Sustainability

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It can help improve restaurants’ transparency, validation, verification, and communication, driving key performance indicators (KPIs) like increased customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty. Additionally, AI helps ensure smooth, efficient, accurate communication between suppliers and restaurant operators for better quality control.

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ESOPs and Sustainable Restaurant Culture

Modern Restaurant Management

Denver-based chef Justin Cucci has long been a champion for sustainability at his farm-to table eateries. We figured out that an ESOP committee was a strong engine of communication, and we created one that had three members from each of our five restaurants. One hourly FOH employee, one hourly BOH employee, and one salaried manager.

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

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Changing temperatures and weather patterns mean ingredients that were once common are now harder to come by , and sourcing ingredients from sustainable farms can often be more expensive. This puts restaurateurs in a precarious position of having to communicate choices and challenges without sullying the fun of eating out.