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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry loses an astounding $162 billion each year in food waste. All restaurants should proactively work to reduce food waste, which will also help you save money, increase profits, spotlight your commitment to sustainability, and help the environment. Between a third and a half of food is wasted worldwide annually.

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Have Delivery Apps Changed What a Restaurant Is?

EATER

The pandemic has forced restaurants to accommodate delivery in order to stay relevant. This is Eater Voices , where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. Tricky_Shark/Shutterstock.

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Shifting Priorities During COVID-19: Waste Goes up as Restaurants aim to Stop the Spread of the Pandemic

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Donate Food Waste to Local Charities. Since events are canceling and dining halls are closed, many restaurant owners are seeing an influx of food waste and looking for ways to avoid throwing the food in the trash. You can also look into compostable packaging options and inform customers their takeout packaging can be composted.

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7 Guest Preference Predictions for 2022

Restaurant365

As we end 2021 and consider the vast increase in takeout, comfort food, and overconsumption of alcohol that took place during the throws of the pandemic, many of us are resolved to doing better in 2022. Fortunately, there are a lot of great options when it comes to recyclable and compostable takeout containers and paper products.

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The Trends to Watch in 2022 & Beyond

Future Food

The Trends to Watch in 2022 & Beyond The changing face of Food & Hospitality. Whilst some food and hospitality businesses chose to pivot their businesses early, out of necessity, others have elected to respond to changes in consumer preferences and are quickly reshaping the food and hospitality landscape in front of our eyes.

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Why Food Delivery Packaging Is the Key to Reestablishing Customer Trust

The Restaurant Times

Though food delivery packaging always played an important role in the restaurant business, post COVID-19, it has become even more essential. Thus, food delivery packaging needs to be as sustainable and efficient as it can. Thus, food delivery packaging needs to be as sustainable and efficient as it can.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

In their Q3 2019 Food Sector Retail Index, Placer.ai, the world’s most advanced foot traffic analytics platform, looks at ten of the biggest QSR brands to see who came out on top this quarter. consumers by Vixxo found that two in three Americans still prefer dining in restaurants (62 percent) over takeout or delivery (34 percent).

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