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Making Your Food Delivery Business More Sustainable

Modern Restaurant Management

Sometimes, these packaging materials end up in recycling where they can be broken down for reuse. However, oils and other foodstuffs are often not accepted in recycling plants. Moving to more eco-friendly options like biodegradable materials using bamboo or already recycled paper helps reduce unwanted waste from clogging landfills.

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5 Ways AI Reduces Food Waste in Restaurants by 30%

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Optimizing Inventory Management Spoiled or unused inventory is another major contributor to food waste. AI-powered inventory tools can optimize inventory levels by 35% as they monitor stock levels in real time, alerting staff to slow-moving or soon-to-expire ingredients.

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Can Your Food Delivery Business Be More Sustainable?

Modern Restaurant Management

Sometimes, these packaging materials end up in recycling where they can be broken down for reuse. However, oils and other foodstuffs are often not accepted in recycling plants. Moving to more eco-friendly options like biodegradable materials using bamboo or already recycled paper helps reduce unwanted waste from clogging landfills.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.

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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Donation, composting, and organic recycling are all available options to restaurant operators attempting to reduce the amount of food scraps entering their solid waste bins. The next time that your restaurant prepares a pan of food that goes uneaten, or has an inventory order that surpasses demand, think donation. Organic Recycling.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

Upgrade inventory and ordering systems with the latest technology. Proper inventory management is essential to decreasing food waste and saving related expenses. All employees should practice proper “first in, first out” inventory management. Recycle and compost. Implement a digital system (e.g.,

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Waste Reduction for Better Food and Increased Sales

Modern Restaurant Management

Because we keep it simple, we are never in the position of having thousands of dollars of unused inventory sitting on our shelves, an unfortunate liability that many restaurants were faced with when their businesses unceremoniously shut down earlier this year. For example, we once helped Buffalo, N.Y.-based

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