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How Better Cooking Oil Management Enhances Efficiency and Reduces Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

To learn more about how cooking oil management can help with this goal, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to John Michals, COO of Filta Environmental Kitchen Services. What Can Be Done : Ther are long-term cost savings associated with sustainable practices, including oil filtration and recycling services.

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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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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Steady Online Ordering Brings Food Waste, Donations to the Forefront of Priorities Ordering food online increases restaurant sales, but it also can potentially increase wasted food if proactive measures aren’t taken – for both the business and consumers at home.

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Welcoming Customers Back: How to Resell the Dine-in Experience as Restaurants Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

Now that states are beginning to loosen their lockdown restrictions and reopen small businesses like restaurants, it’s fair to wonder how drastically the dine-in experience will have to change to accommodate the new safety requirements. How does that work with the new safety requirements? It may seem like a difficult balance.

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RATIONAL’s iCareSystem AutoDose helps you keep your oven clean without the extra effort

Restaurant Business

23, 2025 Photograph: RATIONAL Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Maintaining clean and hygienic equipment is one of the most important tasks in food service — and also one of the most despised. Most of all, it’s not nearly as much fun as preparing food and serving customers, the reason most people love working in food service.

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Checklist For Reopening Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

However, as long as you keep the spotlight on food safety – sanitization, employee health monitoring and personal hygiene, and social distancing – your restaurant won’t be a hub of contagion. They are cost-effective and reduce the likelihood of contamination – buy disposable menus in bulk and recycle them.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

B Corp Restaurants As of early 2024, almost 150 restaurants around the world have achieved the certification, from fine-dining independents to fast-casual chains, with hotels, breweries and food delivery companies also dotting the list. Green Restaurant and Slow Food were others we considered.