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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 Tips to Reduce Food Waste & Increase Profit Margins

Cheetah

San Francisco’s mandatory composting ordinance, for example, encourages residents and businesses to reduce their landfill fees by shifting as much as possible to composting. Use social media, educate your serving staff, and communicate in your menu! Get your staff on board and train them in proper handling and preparation.

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7 Ways to Reduce Food Waste in Your Restaurant

Lavu

Educate staff on food safety, emphasizing the importance of proper storage temperatures. Compost Any Wasted Food Your Restaurant Can Converting organic waste into compost is an environmentally friendly practice, transforming waste into nutrient-rich soil.

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Restaurant Kitchen Staff is Key to Food Cost Savings

Restaurant365

Training your store-level managers and your kitchen staff about food waste reduction is critical to improving overall Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS). Train your store-level managers. The success of your food waste optimization hinges on prioritizing training for your store-level managers in every area.

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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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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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