Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Food Waste Management Food waste management has always been a challenge for the restaurant industry. To reduce what goes to a landfill, more restaurants will start using closed-loop composting that turns waste into compost in 24 hours using heat and microbes. This is a trend I hope will go away.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2024

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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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These practices include using energy efficient lighting (79 percent of restaurant operators said they use CFL or LED lighting), engaging in recycling (65 percent of operators recycle cardboard and paper) and reducing food waste (22 percent donate leftover food and 14 percent compost food waste).

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I t’s no secret that the key to sustainability in restaurants is managing limited resources and keeping your operations clean and safe. While it’s no easy task, the tools needed to create clean environments for preparing and serving food and making smart decisions on resource management exist. The result: peace of mind.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Innovative tech tools, like AI, can improve forecasting, inventory management, scheduling, customer service, marketing, and many other essential business tasks. Elevate quality management programs. An effective quality management program can help restaurants dramatically improve their safety, quality, performance, and compliance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2021

Not only is sustainability a hot topic in the restaurant industry, but certain sustainable practices can actually help you to manage risk and keep your business going if another disaster should strike. Composting food scraps and leftovers. Using biodegradable packaging. Not serving bottled water or offering plastic straws.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 1, 2022

One of these alternatives is compostable coffee capsules. What are compostable capsules? He tells me: “A truly compostable coffee capsule is one that has been verified to be able to break down under certain conditions. There are two certification categories for compostable pods: industrial and home-compatible.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 6, 2022

There is no longer an answer as to what's stopping these restaurants from adopting organic waste management solutions. In an era of rapid urbanization and population growth, waste management is critical for sustainable, healthy, and inclusive cities. A greenhouse gas with 80 times more warming power than CO2.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 13, 2025

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine connected with Clint Hughey, Snooze’s Director of Impact, to learn how the Change Maker role is one of the most essential at Snooze. In many ways, the Change Maker serves as an extension of our management team support system, similar to a supervisor or a future manager.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 24, 2024

” Additionally, you will speak to or put in place written policies around employee and manager expectations and a code of ethics. Environment – 45 points For environment, you will look specifically at your management of materials and space.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Restaurant management is no exception. Other approaches to reducing your carbon footprint can be achieved from initiatives such as increasing recycling, reuse of packaging as well as reducing waste that goes to landfill for example by offering compostable or even edible packaging and reducing food waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This also extends to how we manage our staff. based Nardin Academy to set up a waste tracking system for recycling, compost, and landfill refuse that helped Nardin divert 86 percent of its cafeteria waste during the school year. This adds up to a significant amount of money saved. Organization is key.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Alto-Shaam identified the emerging culinary shifts that are set to move into mainstream influence in menu management nationwide as hope appears on the horizon for the industry. ” Metz Culinary Dining Trends Metz Culinary Management, Inc.

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The Rail

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Indeed, with coffee drinkers trying to drink a product that echoes their values, this is information that restaurant owners and managers need. Think recycling and composting food waste. This short blog looks into these factors and points out how you can tap into this growing market segment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2020

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. Litigation. Administrative Developments. Full-service restaurants are exempt from this law if employees sort organic waste.

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EATER

APRIL 26, 2024

Photo courtesy of Tivoli Mushrooms As demand flourishes, managing the waste from the growing process (known as substrate) poses some problems but brings solutions that could ensure a sustainable future for the market This story originally appeared on Civil Eats. Fruiting mushrooms in substrate. It wasn’t a tough sell. In the U.S.,

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

There was little waste since managing twenty seats was much easier than trying to fill expansive dining rooms with a turn or two on busy nights. Instead of thirty-gallon trash cans spread out through the kitchen, there were two much smaller cans, a recycling bin, and tubs for compost.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies. Additionally, turnover rates for restaurant employees and managers continue to be at all-time highs.

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Goliath Consulting

MAY 19, 2020

It can be stressful to manage a growing catering business without relying on technology. there will be logistical challenges in trying to keep track of every detail without a business management software. They also offer all serving utensils with compostable options. Are you interested in managing your catering program?

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Restaurant Business

MARCH 20, 2024

While implementing recycling programs or oil management systems can indeed contribute to sustainability initiatives in foodservice, they can be much more costly to support, especially in the beginning. However, there’s a new solution—the GC120 from Continental Cup which is curbside recyclable or commercially compostable in 120 days.

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The Restaurant Group

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Implementing Inventory Management Practices Effective inventory management reduces overstocking and spoilage, keeping operations efficient and sustainable. Organize Storage : Keep storage areas neat for easy inventory management. Composting and Recycling Programs Start Composting : Divert organic waste to composting facilities.

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Perfect Daily Grind

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

To address this problem, some coffee businesses are opting for more sustainable approaches to waste management, including circular economy models. This is widely considered to be the first implementation of official zero-waste management practices in the US. I worked as a barista and coffee shop manager for more than six years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2022

This list can go on and on for waste, however, when waste is FINALLY just waste, compost is the answer or if the trimmings are safe, I'll give them to my sous chef, who then feeds them to her chickens. Using creative plating opportunities when arisen. Delaware North.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

As Modern Restaurant Management Restaurant (MRM) magazine celebrates its fifth anniversary this month, we reached out to industry insiders to garner their insights on what issues have impacted the industry over the last five years and what issues they feel will impact restaurants in the years to come. Think paper straws versus plastic.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Fine-tuned scheduling, proactive management, and continuous training harmonize staff efforts with the fast-paced QSR landscape, ensuring teams align with business goals and evolving demands. For example, compostable materials, such as biodegradable packaging and utensils made from renewable resources, have gained widespread acceptance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2024

They can easily compost, without having to find partners or programs to take the compost. Food waste is another concern regarding sustainability in restaurants. By producing the food themselves, restaurants have new options available to them to control food waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. BIBO is a full- service importer/exporter, national sales, and brand management agency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2022

Remove the seat and staple a fabric into the void; then, fill it with compost and see your flowers grow. For instance, an old chair tarnished by the weather could become the perfect vase for vibrant plants. This also allows you to raise your plants from the ground, making them more visible for everyone to enjoy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Surprisingly, at a certain point in quantity, compostable flatware can be purchased for the same rate as the unsustainable plastic option. Balancing the long-term vision along with the immediate needs of a shorter strategy put into perspective how we wanted to grow our business.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

San Diego’s Rady School of Management suggests that it might. While creating such systems, especially the infrastructure to separate food waste to turn into compost, are critical to the fight against climate change, there is also a growing emphasis on prevention. A recent study from U.C.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When they have run their lifetime, the straws will decompose in your regular garden compost pile. Bamboo : Bamboo straws serve as the “middleman” between a single-use and a forever-use item. Bamboo straws are durable, but they probably won’t last you a lifetime. Going Beyond the Straw.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

Let your customers know what your business is doing to help local and global communities from recycling and composting to locally sourcing ingredients to supporting local food pantries. Plant-based is associated with sustainability and the bigger picture of being more environmentally responsible. And if you have not given this much thought.

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EATER

MAY 5, 2021

We also didn’t consider that the person who ordered them, noting the now-cold carnitas, might blithely pop everything into a microwave until the tacos were, yes, hot again, but also a bit rubbery, and proceed to eat them straight out of the now sweaty compostable box while watching Season 17 of the Bachelorette. The scene is what T.,

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 18, 2022

Whether it’s digital or manual, such a tool helps managers spot food waste patterns and take actions to correct them. Provide your managers with tools they need to project sales levels and the inventory required to meet demand. Compost all remaining food waste. Keep a food waste journal. Use forecasting tools to prevent waste.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 21, 2022

Reusable, recyclable, and compostable are the three major categories that fall under the sustainable packaging category. Compostable. Compostable products are defined as biodegradable and non-toxic. PLA Coated Paper or Clear PLA (Polylactic Acid): PLA can also be used to make clear compostable carry-out containers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2020

The results of this sustainability movement have encouraged restaurateurs to begin composting, eliminate single-use plastic products and source locally grown or foraged ingredients. Biodegradable or compostable diningware like napkins, plates and cutlery. An emphasis on using reusable items like to-go containers and straws.

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