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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

Train your staff. Educate your employees why it’s essential to reduce food waste and train them on how to accomplish this. Recycle and compost. Cities will compost organic waste, turning it into fertilizer, or harvest methane from rotting waste, burning it to generate power. Realize that small changes matter.

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7 Ways to Reduce Food Waste in Your Restaurant

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Invest in proper storage areas equipped with technologies that help maintain the freshness of perishable items. Educate staff on food safety, emphasizing the importance of proper storage temperatures. Beyond composting, explore initiatives like partnering with local farms to source fresh produce.

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How to Wield Restaurant Food Costs to Your Advantage

MBB Hospitality

Train your staff to understand these margins as well, so they can effectively upsell higher-margin items. Training staff on proper portioning, storage, and handling can drastically reduce the amount of food that ends up in the trash. Training for Efficiency Staff training is a critical component in controlling costs.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

For the first time, Tripleseat conducted a survey to share with leaders in hospitality the amount of hours professionals put into each event to make sure that every one of their clients' events are a success, as well as their experience in the industry, type of training received, salary earned, among others.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Additionally, while other smoothie establishments use gallons of water to clean each blender, Ono’s patent-pending automated self-cleaning blender and robotic systems use 28x less water because it only needs to clean the blade and because it’s blended in the customer’s compostable cup. Parts Town and Heritage Combine.

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Wasting Away: Reducing Food (and Energy) Waste for Restaurants

Sustainability Beyond the Plate

Richard Young, Director of Education. The Food Service Tecnology Center (FSTC) held two educational seminars in June covering the relationship between food and energy waste. At the San Diego presentation, Richard Young was joined by Ana Carvalho from the City of San Diego and Island Restaurants’ Mike Schuster.

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Organic Waste Recycling for Foodservice: What You Need To Know

Sustainability Beyond the Plate

This will involve learning what is accepted in your area, setting up the proper on-site infrastructure, and training your staff. Composting can be considered a form of recycling. A compostable item is a certain type of biodegradable item that breaks down relatively quickly into humus , a substance that enriches soil.