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Winterizing Your Restaurant: Navigating Challenges and Ensuring Sustainability

The Rail

Salting sidewalks, parking lots, and outdoor patio areas nightly helps, as does enlisting a snow removal service (if severe storms occur). Outdoor heating units, sheltered patios, and table umbrellas are absolute musts, and the season also offers opportunities to get creative with lighting and atmosphere.

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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. Many restaurants have also pivoted to outdoor dining amid the pandemic.

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Top F&B Industry Trends To Watch Out For In 2022

The Restaurant Times

Sustainable Living And Meals . Individuals will, we expect, choose sustainable diets that are environmentally friendly this year. Increasing numbers of people are actively making intentional decisions to compost food waste rather than simply discarding it. Outdoor Dining . Eating outdoors is becoming increasingly popular!

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Summer 2021 Food & Beverage Trends

Goliath Consulting

With the pandemic and climate change being hot topics in recent months, Summer 2021 will have guests wanting to see more healthy and sustainable items on their menu. Especially compostable menus.) According to this NielsenIQ report , hard seltzer products have “shown the most sustainable growth trajectory across the U.S.

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Chefs speak: 4 major issues for restaurants in 2023

Open for Business

She also constantly surveys her menu to make it smart and sustainable. “We We recycle and compost. But there is at least one major change that isn’t going anywhere: the massive expansion of streeteries and outdoor dining. “We We are always looking to find ways in which there will be less waste.

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Food Truck Design 101: How To Design A Food Truck

The Restaurant Times

However, there are many ways to run the business sustainably and affordably. If you stay put, you need to include outdoor seating and outdoor public restrooms in your food truck design. However, composting toilets will add to the time spent on cleaning your food truck. Run your food truck.

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Organic Waste Recycling for Foodservice: What You Need To Know

Sustainability Beyond the Plate

Composting can be considered a form of recycling. A compostable item is a certain type of biodegradable item that breaks down relatively quickly into humus , a substance that enriches soil. An extensive list of composting terms and their definitions can be found here. all organic matter) for soil amendments.