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Smart Supply Chain Management Can Reduce Food Waste and Improve Margins in Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Around 33 to 40 percent of food goes to waste each year. In this article, we’ll look at the smart strategies restaurants can enact in their supply chain management to minimize food waste, improve margins, and ease their environmental impact in the process. It’s the cost of waste.

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Strategies for Achieving a Zero-Waste Kitchen in Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

One of the most prominent is its engagement in the zero-waste movement. Is zero waste achievable? What strategic steps can you take to bring your kitchen closer to achieving zero-waste? Managing Inventory The first area of focus for any waste elimination strategy is your restaurant’s approach to ingredients.

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Fighting Food Waste with Smarter Operations: A Business Imperative for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Food waste is one of the restaurant industry’s most persistent and costly challenges. According to ReFED , restaurants in the United States alone waste 5.76 That food waste equates to billions of dollars literally thrown away. Technology plays a critical role in helping restaurants minimize waste and improve efficiency.

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5 Ways AI Reduces Food Waste in Restaurants by 30%

The Rail

By Bailey Ramsey, Contributor Food waste is a critical issue in the restaurant industry. To put this in perspective, restaurants waste anywhere between 4% to 10% of the food they purchase. Predicting Customer Demand Accurately One of the leading causes of food waste in restaurants is overproduction.

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Maximize Restaurant Profitability: 5 Key Strategies to Control Costs Effectively

Learn how to track and reduce food waste, optimize labor costs with smart scheduling, make data-driven decisions with regular P&L reviews, and manage fixed and variable costs efficiently. Running a profitable restaurant requires more than great food and service.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry loses an astounding $162 billion each year in food waste. All restaurants should proactively work to reduce food waste, which will also help you save money, increase profits, spotlight your commitment to sustainability, and help the environment. Between a third and a half of food is wasted worldwide annually.

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Tech to Trash Can – How Technology Is Redefining Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Food waste is recognized as an endemic challenge around the world. is wasted each year, about 119 billion pounds, estimated at over $408 billion. For restaurants, an industry with challenging profit margins, minimizing food waste is nothing less than a survival strategy. But unchecked waste can threaten the bottom line.

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

Running an ABM program on data you don’t trust means wasted time, resources, and lost revenue. Without it, you can’t find and reach your target accounts. And yet only 43% of marketers are completely satisfied with the quality of their data. ZoomInfo’s MarketingOS changes all that.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

The amount of bad data causes teams to waste valuable time during their workflow, and decreases their number of targeted prospects. Not so fast, though. According to Forrester Research, only 8% of marketing professionals have confidence that their data is 90-100% accurate.

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Data: A Lifeline for Tight-Margin Restaurants

Real-time data helps with labor scheduling, adjusting menu items, reducing waste and improving profitability. In the competitive restaurant industry, data is crucial for controlling costs and boosting efficiency. Learn how harnessing data enables better decision-making and enhances operational success.

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3 Mistakes Organizations Make While Developing ABM Programs

Wasteful technology and service spending. Download ZoomInfo’s latest eBook to learn about the three most common mistakes organizations make while executing an ABM program, including: Poor account selection process. Inadequate contact inventory within universe.

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The Operator’s Guide to Productivity in a Short Staffed World

Minimizing wasted effort. Your employees are your most valuable asset; it’s difficult to lose even one. Driving productivity in your stores, the field, and HQ with the employees you have today means: Accomplishing more with fewer people. Improving the consistency of work.

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Digital Transformation in the Restaurant Industry

Think, a 25-75% reduction in food waste that translates to millions of dollars in savings. The digital transformation of restaurants and food service businesses represents major advances for the industry, especially when the driving force becomes AI. A fully automated supply chain.