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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry loses an astounding $162 billion each year in food waste. All restaurants should proactively work to reduce food waste, which will also help you save money, increase profits, spotlight your commitment to sustainability, and help the environment. Between a third and a half of food is wasted worldwide annually.

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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. Marina Lohrbach /Shutterstock.

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The Trends to Watch in 2022 & Beyond

Future Food

Re purposing It has been inspiring to see the commitment of modern food and hospitality operators in minimising their impact on the environment, through the reduction in food and equipment waste across the sector. This is not new and this is not the last year this will appear in this forecast, but it shows that this trend is here to stay.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

In their Q3 2019 Food Sector Retail Index, Placer.ai, the world’s most advanced foot traffic analytics platform, looks at ten of the biggest QSR brands to see who came out on top this quarter. Diverting Food Waste. The study noted that restaurants are recovering some food waste — but far too much is still thrown out. "Less

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

The Restaurant Times

Danone , a large food corporation, recently made the decision to cut waste by incorporating wasted fruits into its yoghurt products. Increasing numbers of people are actively making intentional decisions to compost food waste rather than simply discarding it.

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Can you run a zero-waste coffee shop?

Perfect Daily Grind

And while many initiatives focus on reducing the environmental impact of coffee production , the volume of waste produced by coffee shops is also a major concern for many people. To address this problem, some coffee businesses are opting for more sustainable approaches to waste management, including circular economy models.

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Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Is Dynamic Pricing the Solution?

EATER

Dynamic pricing is not new; for decades, the airline, fashion, and hospitality industries have all found that dynamic pricing — the incremental adjustments to prices to reflect inventory, demand, and supply — has helped companies cut waste and save money. All of this food waste — 35 percent of the U.S. A recent study from U.C.

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