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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

We’re continually learning about new and innovative ways to help our clients be more sustainable—whether that be choosing eco-friendly materials and fixtures or finding new products that use recycled or compostable packaging. Think paper straws versus plastic. The focus is to cut down the impact we have on the environment.

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Restaurant Kitchen Staff is Key to Food Cost Savings

Restaurant365

While the focus for food waste reduction usually lies with the back of house (BOH), a significant amount of food waste can also come from front of house (FOH) errors. Engage in Composting. Composting is the process of turning food scraps and food waste into nutritious materials that can be added back to our soils.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant design footprint will fundamentally change with more BOH kitchen size needed and less FOH seats as more people gravitate toward digital and delivery. While paper and fiber packaging are an improvement, there is a lack of recycling and composting infrastructure to effectively reuse them – most end up in the landfill.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

Along with those extraordinary steps, they compost pre-consumer and post-consumer food waste, purchase organic food products, use reusable products, and much more. GreenPoints™ Carvers’ Cafe has on-site solar panels that produce over 57 percent of its annual energy usage, on-site BOH composting, and much more.