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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Donation, composting, and organic recycling are all available options to restaurant operators attempting to reduce the amount of food scraps entering their solid waste bins. The next time that your restaurant prepares a pan of food that goes uneaten, or has an inventory order that surpasses demand, think donation. Composting.

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How to Run a Restaurant and Reap the Benefits of Recycling

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How to Run a Restaurant and Reap the Benefits of Recycling . You have customers to please, inventory to order, and staff to manage – to name just a few things on your growing “To Do” list. So when someone brings up food recycling, you’re probably asking yourself when you’ll ever have time to give it any thought.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

Upgrade inventory and ordering systems with the latest technology. Proper inventory management is essential to decreasing food waste and saving related expenses. All employees should practice proper “first in, first out” inventory management. Recycle and compost. Implement a digital system (e.g.,

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Zero Restaurant Food Waste for the Environment and Lower CoGS

Restaurant365

Pre-consumer waste is all food that’s wasted before it gets to the customer, like spoiled inventory and kitchen scraps. Separate your trash, recyclables, food waste, etc., Food waste reduction requires some additional work to properly store, monitor, and use inventory ingredients, so employees must be fully invested in the process.

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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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You can also look into compostable packaging options and inform customers their takeout packaging can be composted. Or, give customers instructions on recycling the current packaging you use for carryout and delivery orders. Automatic inventory tracking (avoid over-ordering). Keep Track of Inventory with POS Integrations.

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7 Guest Preference Predictions for 2022

Restaurant365

Fortunately, there are a lot of great options when it comes to recyclable and compostable takeout containers and paper products. Reusable, recyclable, and compostable are the three major categories that fall under the sustainable packaging category. Each provides something different.

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Waste Reduction for Better Food and Increased Sales

Modern Restaurant Management

Because we keep it simple, we are never in the position of having thousands of dollars of unused inventory sitting on our shelves, an unfortunate liability that many restaurants were faced with when their businesses unceremoniously shut down earlier this year. For example, we once helped Buffalo, N.Y.-based

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