With communities across the nation facing growing solid waste disposal issues, reducing your food waste has become a good idea both for the environment and as a business policy. A study at the University of Arizona estimated that the total food loss per day amounted to 49,296,540 lbs. in all full service restaurants and 85,063,390 lbs. in all fast food restaurants. Below …
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Matt Anderson calls it a “napkano,” the volcano that erupts when guests at Zaxby’s leave a pile of wing-sauce-stained paper napkins—many barely used—on the table. “It’s a struggle,” says Anderson, systems development manager at the 673-unit Athens, Ga.-based chicken chain.“We don’t want to anger people by denying them napkins,” he says, but waste is a concern. And while a …
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