How Solar Power Can Help a Restaurant’s Bottom Line

Each year, food waste in the restaurant industry reaches losses that are in the billions. And, while there are multiple points of waste throughout the food supply chain, imagine if it were possible to limit losses due to power outages. What would it mean for a restaurant’s bottom line to keep refrigerators, freezers, ice machines and display coolers running during power outages? For standalone restaurant locations to caterers to food halls to drive-thrus, even food co-packers and storage facilities, solar power could significantly reduce, if not altogether avoid, this problem for restaurants. 

Solar power is often overlooked by businesses because it is so closely tied to homeownership, but it shouldn’t be because it can help every restaurant reduce its dependence on the grid. Quite simply, solar panel rooftops create electricity that can be used, stored, even potentially be resold. How much electricity can be made is based on a series of factors, but solar power works even in the…