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Why Restaurants Are Switching to Intelligent Packaging

Modern Restaurant Management

Online food delivery and takeaway concept boomed amidst pandemic and continues to gain momentum till today. Multiple restaurants, cafes, bakeries and other food stores integrated takeout and at home delivery to their services to gain customers and keep their business afloat during the crisis.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

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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An Environmentally Friendly Strategy to Reduce Restaurant Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

percent of the leftover food is recycled, 1.4 The circular economy is a model of production and consumption involving the reuse or recycling of materials to its fullest life cycle. 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.

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What’s Packing Your Food? Restaurant Delivery Packaging Trends

Goliath Consulting

A research conducted by US Foods reported that the top complaints from ordering customers included, “food was not warm or fresh” and “food got shaken or messed up during delivery” (3). With more consumers using food delivery services, the demand for better food packaging is stronger than ever. Sustainability. Conclusion.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

What issues have affected the industry over the last five years in the topics of marketing, design, operations, law, finance, technology and equipment? Businesses pivoted their operations with technological tools such as contactless payments, delivery platforms, and kitchen assisting robots to battle these challenges.

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The Trends to Watch in 2022 & Beyond

Future Food

Online ordering, self-checkouts, touchless payments, food delivery and pick-up will continue to propagate as the demand for off-premise consumption continues to grow. Less human interaction will advance the involvement of robots in food preparation, service and delivery, prompting enhanced labour and operational efficiencies.

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2022 Restaurant Industry Trends: Part 2

The Restaurant Group

As food deliveries and takeaways continue to rule the food industry in 2022, forward-looking restaurants are now moving away from plastic and other non-recyclable materials in their food packaging. They are increasingly adopting compostable packaging materials in food deliveries to reduce their carbon footprint.

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