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This article in interesting because it took going green and portrayed it from a religious aspect. This article suggests giving up certain things and replacing certain everyday household items for lent. Such things as regular detergents to do your laundry or paper towels may be replaces with equivalent substitutes that cost nothing or little more than usual. Also these items will help the environment.
Although this article does not particularly pertain to the food service industry, it may be indirectly related into any establishment especially the hospitality. If the establishment you work in does its own laundry and linens, and they switch over to the more natural detergent and use air drying may help save the business money, but also help the environment. Also with the amount that chefs/cooks wash their hands cutting out the cost and the waste of paper towels would have a huge impact on the costs of the company. Having the business go paperless with their advertisements and promotions will also help, instead of sending out mail with coupons and promotions on it, just use email which seems to be the more popular form of communication these days. All of these slides are directed on a small scale to household users, but may also be related to the hospitality industry as we use all of these products or procedures but just on a much larger scale. So in the long run restaurants and hotels will have an even bigger portion of helping the environment if they simply just change the ways the do the small things.
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All these things could definitely be directed towards the hospitality/food industry. Just like has been mentioned in previous articles and comments, its all about the baby steps. You have to start somewhere to get on the path of making huge differences.
ReplyDeleteSome of the items mentioned in the article/slideshow do not really affect the industry we are so widely talking about. Some, however, might make prime examples of problems within a food establishment.
ReplyDeleteThis article tells us nine different ways that we can help the environment and it would cost us little to nothing to execute. One of these items has to do with food shopping. We need to get rid of the plastic and paper bags and switch to a more conservative reusable bag for our groceries. This might not affect restaurants but what about those small establishments that have their chef(s) shop for the day prior to coming in for their shift? These reusable bags can help by eliminating the paper and plastic bags used upon transport.
Another one that could relate to the food industry is the unwanted catalogs. Establishments get all kinds of catalogs that advertise new equipment and upcoming gadgets. Why receive the catalogs if they are just going to collect dust in your office? These small little changes are crucial in helping out the "green" movement.
Many things can be done to help out the environment and these things can be small in nature. Something that requires no extra cost can be substituted and turned around for the better. It would be nice if more establishments took the hint.