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

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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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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part One

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The focus now is finding the minimum necessary seating capacity while maximizing kitchen efficiency and service throughput. Instead of simply trying to fit as many seats as possible into a space, the focus now is finding the minimum necessary seating capacity while maximizing kitchen efficiency and service throughput.

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

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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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Checklist For Reopening Your Restaurant

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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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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

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Dunkin’ is also on track to fully transition to new, recyclable hot coffee cup lids in all of its U.S. The company is also on track to be fully transitioned to recyclable hot coffee cup lids in its U.S. The new lids are made of #5 polypropylene that can be recycled in cities and towns that offer #5 recycling.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

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” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. The sleeping giant is virtual kitchens. Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality.

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Changes at McDonald’s and Reducing Food Waste

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While we'd prefer a bit wider margin of safety at current levels, we'd encourage investors to take advantage of any post-transition weakness in the stock." “We’ve designed two new features that react to incoming reservations in real time and which adapt to operating goals. ” Ordermark Expands in Denver.