How to Reduce Food Waste in Your Restaurant

Implementing a plan to manage food waste will help the restaurant industry boost its profitability, save money, and streamline operations. Here are the best methods to reduce food waste.

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The amount of food waste in America is a crisis. As 42 million people are struggling to secure food for their homes, the restaurant industry is losing 162 billion a year in food waste costs.

How can a country have so many impoverished people and still have billions of dollars in wasted food? This disparity demonstrates that solutions are desperately needed.

Employing an effective strategy to reduce waste will increase profitability, streamline workflows, and save money. Read ahead to learn how food is going bad, how waste causes financial harm and what the best practices are to use food strategically.

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