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How To Stay Open When The Power Is Out 

Modern Restaurant Management

Between the product waste from refrigerated food expiring in two to four hours and the inability to keep generating income from a kitchen shutdown, power outages have the potential of putting unprepared restaurants out of business. That source can be solar panels, a standby generator or even the grid.

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Kimpton’s 2021 Culinary & Cocktail Trend Forecast (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

Comfort food, outdoor dining, Riesling and streamlined menus were top trends for 2020, according to Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants ' seventh annual Culinary & Cocktail Trend Forecast for 2021. People will also prefer locally sourced foods that represent the area of the restaurant. More Outdoor Dining Options.

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Top F&B Industry Trends To Watch Out For In 2022

The Restaurant Times

Danone , a large food corporation, recently made the decision to cut waste by incorporating wasted fruits into its yoghurt products. Increasing numbers of people are actively making intentional decisions to compost food waste rather than simply discarding it. Source: Inhabitat. Outdoor Dining .

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Winterizing Your Restaurant: Navigating Challenges and Ensuring Sustainability

The Rail

Salting sidewalks, parking lots, and outdoor patio areas nightly helps, as does enlisting a snow removal service (if severe storms occur). Outdoor heating units, sheltered patios, and table umbrellas are absolute musts, and the season also offers opportunities to get creative with lighting and atmosphere.

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How to Deal with Legal Regulations Affecting Your New Restaurant

Open for Business

She warns that even though a lot of standards are consistent across the country, there are some things that are drastically different, like outdoor seating regulations. The Department of Health really drives so much of the construction for your kitchen, back of house, and outdoor seating areas,” says Jennifer.

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Organic Waste Recycling for Foodservice: What You Need To Know

Sustainability Beyond the Plate

If you produce 4 cubic yards* (the size of a standard commercial bin, not the smaller ‘cart’) or more of organic waste per week, you must separate and recycle that waste. When people differentiate between these two terms, they could be talking about other non-food organic waste streams like landscaping waste and cow manure.

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The Great Shortage

EATER

At its start, the pandemic brought us images of vast trenches of rotting onions, piles of abandoned produce, and lakes of wasted milk, dumped by farmers who no longer had restaurants to buy their products. Shortages and sourcing issues are becoming the new normal for restaurant operators. “We Here’s how three owners are doing it.