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Understanding and Combatting Food Waste
Most of us know by now that food waste is a huge problem. In Canada, 60% of food produced is thrown out each year. 60%! We’ve studied food waste in a variety of settings such as restaurants, long-term care homes and even on a cruise ship. It’s interesting how each setting can have a different…
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Decent Work in the Hospitality Industry
This article was written by Rebecca Gordon and Bruce McAdams and was originally featured in The Conversation in 2021. While the labour crisis was a hot topic in 2021, much of these issues discussed in this article still continue today. Restaurant operators across Canada are struggling to find enough staff to run their operations. This…
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Canada’s federal single-use plastics ban: What they got right and what they didn’t
This article written by Emily Robinson was originally published in The Conversation in July 2023. There is little dispute these days over the need to regulate single-use plastics. But there is ample confusion around what plastics to address and how to do so. In 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the intention to reach zero plastic…
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What we’ve been up to
Happy New Year! We’ve been spending some time reflecting on our past year and we realized we did a lot of interesting things – So here is a quick update on what we’ve been up to over the last year. First of all, we attended a lot of events! Our favourites included the FeastON the…
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A Vision for a Circular Foodservice Industry
It is possible for foodservice businesses to thrive and the way to do that is to adopt a circular business model.