Some business owners may not believe that reducing food waste will really benefit their business. But we wholeheartedly confirm that Zero Food Waste Management can be surprisingly beneficial to your restaurant ✨ It helps save costs, increases revenue, is used as a marketing and public relations tool, helps increase employee performance, helps you provide better service to customers, and even changes your attitude towards life, etc.
If we were to really go into more detail, it would have many benefits, both directly and indirectly, for business owners, employees, customers, and even society and the world. But what are they? Let’s take a look at each one.
How does Zero Food Waste benefit business owners?
The direct benefit of Zero Food Waste for restaurant owners is reduced ingredient costs. Food waste typically accounts for an average of 4-12 percent of total ingredient costs. So if your restaurant manages it well, you can save that money, which means more income! So how can you let money leak away with food waste!?
Reducing food waste also has indirect benefits for businesses. It creates a good image for the restaurant. You can use Zero Food Waste as a marketing tool and free public relations because the trend of eco-friendly restaurants is gaining popularity. We can see that restaurants in this style are supported and well-received by the media and new-generation customers. Turning to Zero Food Waste Management also helps you offer better products and services to customers, whether it's serving fresh food (good raw material management keeps the ingredients fresh at all times) or offering special complimentary dishes (prepared to prevent leftover ingredients from becoming food waste). When customers are impressed with the products and services and feel that your restaurant is operating socially responsible, what they will receive is love and support in various forms.
Not only that, Zero Food Waste Management can also change your attitude and way of life, allowing you to live a more mindful and purposeful life.
How does Zero Food Waste benefit employees?
The adjustment of Zero Food Waste operations in restaurants is quite beneficial for employees. It helps them learn new ways of working, improves their skills in managing ingredients and food, trains their creativity, analytical thinking, and increases their knowledge, skills, and experience. Every day, the restaurant business increasingly requires personnel with knowledge about Zero Food Waste Management, following the global trend, which has become a 'New Normal' way of doing business in the future. Employees can therefore use their knowledge and experience in Zero Food Waste operations to gain opportunities for career advancement or to further develop their knowledge if they wish to open their own restaurant one day.
For indirect benefits, reducing food waste also provides a change in attitude towards life for those who learn and take action. Being able to help conserve natural resources, helping to save the world, giving happiness and pride in doing good things, learning to live life with more purpose, and having a positive influence on people around you.
How does Zero Food Waste benefit customers?
When the rotation of ingredients is managed efficiently, customers will eat fresher food and may also receive benefits in the form of complimentary food (daily special side dishes, appetizers or snacks) which will create a good impression of the service of the restaurant. In addition, receiving attentive service and supporting a business that is socially and environmentally responsible will create loyalty, wanting to support a good business so that it can continue to do business for a long time. An indirect benefit is that customers are participating in supporting sustainability, preserving the environment through the way they spend their money. When the environment is good, everyone's health will be better.
How does Zero Food Waste benefit society and the world?
Food waste causes 8 percent of greenhouse gases and is a major cause of pollution (landfill waste often contaminates groundwater with toxic leachate, air quality is poor when waste is burned, etc.). Imagine how much we could reduce environmental problems if every restaurant in the world worked together seriously. Without waste to be disposed of by incineration or landfill, pollution that would otherwise leak into the environment would be reduced. There would be less waste contaminating water, air, land, and the sea, which would improve people’s health and the environment, whether at the home, street, community, city, country, or even global level. This would improve people’s quality of life, and it would also conserve natural resources for the better future of our children and grandchildren in the future.
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You can follow the Zero Food Waste Program to reduce costs, increase profits, and reveal the secret recipe for reducing food waste via Facebook: Makro Horeca Academy and website.
To increase know-how, increase ideas for restaurant operators to develop their business to be strong and able to 'survive' in the current situation and learn how to reduce food waste which will help reduce costs and create more profit with online content about food waste and methods of managing and reducing food waste.
We also have a highlight activity, Zero Food Waste Workshop, which is a special workshop that is open for interested people to join for free on November 11, 2020. You can follow the details on Facebook: Makro HoReCa Academy.
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