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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

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Rifrullo Café, a cozy farm-to-table restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, hums with customers on a steamy July mid-morning. As a chef, I have a responsibility to do my best to create good environments for people, customers, and the community,” says Marnell-Suhanosky. Food service buildings in the U.S.,

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5 Ways AI Reduces Food Waste in Restaurants by 30%

The Rail

In this article, we'll explore five practical ways AI helps restaurants reduce food waste by up to 30%, making sustainability an attainable goal for the industry. Predicting Customer Demand Accurately One of the leading causes of food waste in restaurants is overproduction.

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

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This ideally reinforces the connection in the customer’s brain between their everyday choices and the resulting impacts on the environment: “You’ve saved so many gallons of water, you’ve saved so many square meters of land and emissions and energy,” as Goldman says. Congratulations. without interruptions. without interruptions.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

2025 Cocktail/Beverage Trends Ingredients on the Rise Super Juice Acid correction is a technique that allows bartenders to sustainably mimic flavors not locally available, such as using acid-corrected local citruses in Roatán in the Caribbean to replace lemons in cocktails.

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MRM Research Roundup: Midyear Report Card, Cowboy Carter Boost, and the Evolving Pumpkin Craze

Modern Restaurant Management

Cafés and quick-service restaurants received 14.72 Tips at full-service restaurants also declined from 14.76 The data weighs the differences between quick-service and fast casual restaurants versus fine dining restaurants across sales, margins, growth, and cost efficiency. percent in Q2. percent and 14.64 percent and 14.2

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

Read any article enumerating the current or emerging trends in restaurants and retail and you will see ideas of health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and brand authenticity coming to the fore. Waste management programs like recycling, composting, and any food-waste reduction measuring done can also help in this category.

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Should coffee roasters sacrifice margins or increase prices?

Perfect Daily Grind

Coffee roasters around the world are struggling to navigate the rising tide of costs without losing loyal customers. While some businesses may choose to absorb these additional expenses, there are limits to how much they can sustain. But an obvious risk is pricing current customers out.”