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How Do We Get People to Compost?

EATER

Composting is good for everything and everyone, but food waste continues to be a major problem In the United States, food waste amounts to a whopping 30 to 40 percent of the food supply. New York City, on the other hand, introduced a curbside composting program that failed completely because there was little incentive to participate.

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Beyond the Plate: Evolution and Exploration in the 2024 Restaurant Scene

Modern Restaurant Management

The year 2024 promises a journey of adaptation and fierce competition for the restaurant industry as it manages stronger-than-expected economic data and slowing inflation while dealing with the headwinds of short labor supply, more demanding customers and an uncertain political environment.

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Adopting Tech Solutions Is the Smartest Decision Restaurants Can Make

Modern Restaurant Management

Innovative tech tools, like AI, can improve forecasting, inventory management, scheduling, customer service, marketing, and many other essential business tasks. Increase quality and safety across the supply chain. One weak link in the supply chain could cause a food safety breach that could put your guests and brand at risk.

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How can specialty coffee push for a circular economy model?

Perfect Daily Grind

This ranges from using more sustainable processing methods on farms to using recyclable and compostable packaging. For example, reusing and recycling coffee grounds into biofuel, compost, or fertiliser is already a popular way of minimising waste production. A large part of this revolves around the concept of a circular economy.

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What Hotel Menu Trends Will Define 2022?

Hot Schedules

Leading up to this, its pivotal that operators navigate global supply chain disruptions to continue enticing potential diners with a killer offering. You have lots of choices on which companies supply your restaurant inventory, but how do you spot and manage great food suppliers? b3lineicon|b3icon-heart-care|?|Heart Heart Care.

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Restaurant Sustainability is About Success, Not Just Recycling.

Ken Burgin

Now more than ever, with soaring supply prices, staff shortages and crazy weather, sustainability makes sense across all business areas – it’s much more than recycled packaging and local vegetables. Sustainable businesses buy locall y when they can because disruptions in Australia and worldwide remind us that supply lines are fragile.

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Restaurant Sustainability Efforts and Customer Attraction

The Restaurant Group

3/4 buy some packaging/supplies that contain recycled materials or are certified compostable. 14% compost some food waste. Many operators fear liability, keeping them from donating leftover food and cite local ordinances, space or facility constraints, and pest concerns as reasons for not composting.