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How Better Cooking Oil Management Enhances Efficiency and Reduces Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

Misconception 4: Sustainable Oils Are Always More Expensive Why It’s Made : Operators often equate sustainability with higher costs, influenced by the initial price tags of some sustainable products. Energy Efficiency: By properly recycling used cooking oil, restaurants can contribute to renewable energy production.

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Supporting Guests and the Environment with Sustainable Restrooms

Modern Restaurant Management

Consider a variety of features and solutions that your facility can invest in to reduce its carbon footprint and provide visitors with a clean and green restroom, including: Look for restroom products made from renewable sources and/or from recycled materials. Minimize your facility’s output of plastic waste.

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Hot Restaurant Menu Trends for 2022

Modern Restaurant Management

Sustainability will continue to influence menus and how restaurants make decisions across the board. From reusable and recyclable packaging to zero-waste options, restaurants are continuing to prioritize sustainable initiatives.

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Tapping into the Trend of Sustainable Coffee in Dining

The Rail

Understanding What’s Driving the Demand for Sustainable Coffee Understanding changing food trends is about understanding what factors and influences are changing the perceptions and, therefore, behaviors of consumers and your guests. Think recycling and composting food waste.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Increasing Regulatory Pressures on the Food Service Industry I expect more states and municipalities to implement stronger organics recycling laws in 2025, mandating food waste diversion for commercial food service operators. This shift will likely be complemented by an increased focus on reducing waste generated from animal products.

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AMERICAN RESTAURANTS – AN INTERESTING EVOLUTION

Culinary Cues

PART ONE: An Immigrant Nation Melting Pot: America was the land of opportunity and tens of thousands came to our shores, through Ellis Island, and stood at the gates of New York ready to become American and bring their ethnic influence the country’s profile.

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Restaurant QR Codes: 2020’s Comeback Story

Modern Restaurant Management

QR codes are providing customers with digital access to menus – replacing traditional paper menus that require cleaning, recycling and never-ending updates – making this aspect of the restaurant experience truly touchless. The QR code has made a rapid resurgence filling needs people did not even know they had.

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