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Revolutionizing Restaurants: Embracing Tech Solutions in a Challenging Labor Market

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Inventory management tools, for example, enable the real-time tracking of food stock, alerting staff to use items before they spoil and reducing waste. With the right platform, restaurants can reduce the time managers spend scheduling and performing other labor-management duties, including payroll and tip distribution.

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10 Tips for Promoting Sustainability in the Food Industry

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Even before the pandemic, there was a growing trend for the food distribution system to move from global to local. Here are 10 tips for promoting sustainability in the food industry. Rather than waste food, we can redistribute it. New innovations in takeout packing are helping manage the waste. Consider Permaculture.

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Back of House, Yet Front-Facing Priority – Restaurant BOH Trends to Monitor in 2023

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Everything from decreasing food waste to exploring how automation can increase revenue for small business restaurants is related to BOH procedures. They include restaurant management tips for cutting costs, decreasing food waste, and much more. – received the majority of customer tips.

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The Best Restaurant Technology Of 2025

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Do you lose money due to food waste? Staffing automation, such as 7Shifts , can also take care of payroll, tracking overtime, managing tip distribution, and calculating wages accurately, ensuring employees are paid correctly and laws are followed. Identify your biggest pain points. Are labor costs too high?

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Winnowing Away at Food Waste and Epic Generosity

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Winnow Raises $20M to Fight Food Waste. The company, with US offices located in Iowa City, has recently made headlines in the country, having been selected as a food waste innovator and recipient of the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Kroger Foundation Grant. 63 million tons of food is wasted every year. ” Marc Zornes.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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Workers – 40 points To address employee concerns, you will be asked to discuss pay structures and scale, benefits packages and distribution and speak to the health and safety of your operation. During the pandemic, we implemented a whole-house tip pool and instituted an internal $15 minimum wage.

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Restaurant Experts Talk Sustainability Tips and Trends

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As we look to celebrate Earth Day, restaurant industry insiders offer their top tips and trends. To eliminate waste, I always make pickles or fermentations with excess vegetables and dry cure meats for our charcuterie program to utilize any excess proteins. Sustainability continues to be a pressing issue for restaurants and the world.