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

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As part of creating that good environment, she’s taken multiple steps to cut Rifrullo’s carbon footprint, including composting all food scraps, one of the most important steps restaurants can take to combat climate change. For takeout, she uses compostable containers and wooden silverware. I struggle with it.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

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Inspect all food deliveries. Sometimes unscrupulous vendors will attempt to put rotting (or nearly rotting) produce at the bottom of restaurant deliveries. Carefully check each delivery before accepting it or you may be immediately throwing food (and money!) Recycle and compost. Realize that small changes matter.

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Restaurant Trends to Look For in 2025

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Contactless Ordering, Inside and Out Door Dash, Uber Eats and other third-party delivery services will continue to expand. We now design in specific pick-up areas for these third-party delivery systems. per month that provides more reward points, unlimited free delivery, priority reservations and the services of a VIP concierge.

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Have Delivery Apps Changed What a Restaurant Is?

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The pandemic has forced restaurants to accommodate delivery in order to stay relevant. Although we did offer delivery, our menu decisions, like most of our decisions, had up until that point prioritized the entire dining room experience. were for delivery — an even split that is not atypical. Tricky_Shark/Shutterstock.

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Restaurants Avoiding Big Delivery Apps Have to Get Creative

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But some restaurateurs are sticking with in-house delivery or small local companies instead. To translate this aesthetic to go, takeout food is creatively wrapped in compostable packaging and adorned with colorful custom labels. Delivery companies promise restaurants easy ordering and incremental sales.

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An Environmentally Friendly Strategy to Reduce Restaurant Costs

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A move in this direction would include changing the way restaurants handle food waste, and now with deliveries becoming more common, plastic waste as well. Taking action to make changes to achieve these goals would create a pivotal change for the restaurant industry.

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How Organic Ingredients Can Enhance Your Restaurant’s Sustainability Initiatives

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Waste Reduction Strategies Effective waste reduction strategies like composting and recycling can enhance sustainability. Compost organic kitchen scraps to reduce landfill waste and create nutrient-rich soil for local farms or your garden.