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Keeping Track of Your Cash During One of the Biggest Weekends of the Year

Modern Restaurant Management

Whether customers are meeting their friends for an evening out or they’re placing an order for take-out for their at-home festivities, food establishments can expect to see an uptick in business this weekend. The big game is often one of the busiest weekends of the year for restaurants and bars.

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Protecting the Planet and Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

Let’s take food first. When considering the transport element, the method of transport is more significant than distance travelled and avoiding food that has been air-freighted will have the most significant travel-based impact. And what changes can you make while preserving your profit, and even save money in the process?

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How can coffee shops reduce single-use cup waste? 

Perfect Daily Grind

As they’re difficult to recycle, we can also conclude most of these cups end up going to landfill, where they contribute to a growing waste problem. To find out, I spoke with four coffee professionals involved with the HuskeeSwap reusable cup programme. Can you recycle single-use cups? But how do these initiatives work?

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Trash or Treasure? Used Cooking Oil’s Golden Allure Isn’t Just About its Color

Modern Restaurant Management

Used cooking oil, sometimes referred to as “liquid gold”, turns out to be an extremely valuable resource for both restaurateurs and refineries — and thieves. In the 1990’s, key players in the rendering industry began producing biofuel from recycled animal fats and cooking oils on a commercial scale.

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5 Things to Look For When Picking the Right Commissary Kitchen for your Food Truck

Cheetah

Specifically for food trucks, a commissary kitchen offers a designated parking spot, hookups for electricity, cleaning and sanitation areas, water and propane refills, disposal facilities of greywater, grease, solid waste, recycling facilities and more. It also means more room for things that take up too much space in the food truck.

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Setting Up A Sustainable Food Truck In 2021

The Restaurant Times

It is a better option to rely on local vendors to build a sustainable supply chain as opposed to getting raw materials transported from far-off places. This procurement strategy not only cuts down on the transportation cost but also rids the raw materials from the preservatives added to keep the raw materials fresh.

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How is the home espresso machine market evolving?

Perfect Daily Grind

Read on to find out what they told me. Let’s take a look at some of the ways in which they’ve changed. However, while there is rightly a focus on the use of fertilisers and how coffee is transported internationally, the process of brewing coffee also uses energy, and therefore has a carbon footprint. Growing versatility.

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