How To Reduce Waste at Your Hospitality Business
In this piece I will offer some handy tips that any Hospitality business can take to start reducing their waste production, and what happens when you produce less waste? You save MONEY off your waste bill!Â
Waste is one of the most colossal challenges of our times. Waste production continues to increase, Ireland is facing a potential waste mountain with no place to go, for some facts and stats continue reading to the end of this blog.Â
What is one of the first but most important steps to start reducing waste at your hospitality business?
Check your bins
It's a simple task but certainly not one that people want to engage with. I myself have carried this task out during my time as green manager.
However one thing is for sure, I learned from it and I in carrying out this onerous task, we managed to reduce our waste by 30% in one year.Â
Investigating your bins allows you to understand what waste is produced at your business, so you can then take the necessary action to reduce some ...
Why does the Hospitality Industry keep putting money in the bin?
Do you own or run a Hospitality Business? And do you know how much money are you putting in the bin? Food Waste is a REAL issue.
There is a staggering statistic that 70% of the Food Waste produced by Hotels and Restaurants is actually avoidable. While we are putting food in the bin there are millions of people starving in other countries but for this blog I am going to move away from the human side of this problem, and talk about what most motivates business owners: COST SAVINGS.
Putting food in the bin is literally the equivalent of putting your hard earned cash in the bin. More so even, than any other waste type. You have to factor in the following elements:
- You bought the raw produce at a cost
- You stored it in your fridges and freezers using energy that also cost you money
- Then you cooked it, using energy and staff wages to add to that cost.
- And then when the food comes back from your food service areas, or when it is spoiled in your fridges, you pay money for your waste com ...
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