{"id":3723,"date":"2018-10-20T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/2019\/03\/27\/2019-restaurant-trend-3-transparency-show-off-your-progress\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T10:13:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:13:38","slug":"2019-restaurant-trend-3-transparency-show-off-your-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/2019-restaurant-trend-3-transparency-show-off-your-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Restaurant Trend # 3: Transparency &#8211; Show Off your Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current trends that are driving the restaurant business like <a href=\"\/blog\/2018-restaurant-trend-localization-contributing-to-the-local-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">localization<\/a>, being transparent, and participating in <a href=\"\/blog\/2018-restaurant-trends-social-responsibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">socially responsible programs<\/a> aren\u2019t always as easy to adapt to large-scale operations. Single location restaurants have a huge advantage when it comes to being flexible with their waste reduction, management, and recycling options \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t mean that multiple location restaurants can\u2019t keep up with eco-conscious consumers. That\u2019s where Quest comes in.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">At Quest, we understand that these trends aren\u2019t just important for <a href=\"\/blog\/2018\/02\/14\/corporate-sustainability-initiatives-restaurants-make-good-business-sense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">making and saving money<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2013 they are real ways for big businesses to have a positive impact on the communities they are a part of. We also understand that the same concepts that make single-location restaurants so popular don\u2019t have to be limited to small businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Delivering Insights Shows Customers that You Care<\/strong><br \/>\nLocalization and Social Responsibility are both great concepts on paper, but if you can\u2019t PROVE to your consumers that your restaurant is actually doing the right thing \u2013 the social backlash can be even worse than not doing anything at all. \u201cGreenwashing\u201d has become a bad word in any business model and claiming to do something environmentally or socially impactful without follow-through can lead to a negative PR nightmare. Quest\u2019s recycling programs always track the amount of material recycled so you can confidently share your environmental responsibility.<br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Imagine a nice cardstock tent on each table of your restaurants that features exactly how many meals you\u2019ve donated to a homeless shelter, or how many pounds of waste have been diverted from landfills through recycling programs. Consumers love that kind of stuff, and you\u2019re building in loyalty simply by doing the right thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Quest Delivers Data Your Customers Can See \u2013 So You Don\u2019t Have To Mess with it<\/strong><br \/>\nThe problem that large-scale restaurant chains run into that small businesses don\u2019t is tracking the data that customers want to see. The more restaurants you have, the harder all that data is to track, compile, and present. With all of the other numbers that a facility manager or store manager is faced with on an everyday basis &#8211; keeping up with recycling rates can turn into a serious headache.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">At Quest, we not only design the programs that <a href=\"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/restaurant-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">help you reduce waste\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">we track all of that data so that you have PROOF, not a concept, of the waste you\u2019ve kept out of landfills. This data can be the difference when it comes to even the pickiest of consumers. That\u2019s one of the main benefits of working with Quest: service. We don\u2019t only design the waste reduction programs that make you look good to your customers, we manage the programs and track them so that you have the data you need to proudly display your customers that you are running an environmentally sound business .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Even if a company is doing the right things to be socially and environmentally responsible, if the consumers don\u2019t know about it \u2013 the company will not see all the benefits of the programs they\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">have put in place. Consumers don\u2019t want to just HEAR that you are doing great things \u2013 they want to SEE it.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Contact us today, and let\u2019s see how we can help your restaurant chains stay on track with the trends that are most important to today\u2019s increasingly aware consumers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current trends that are driving the restaurant business like localization, being transparent, and participating in socially responsible programs aren\u2019t always as easy to adapt to large-scale operations. Single location restaurants have a huge advantage when it comes to being flexible with their waste reduction, management, and recycling options \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t mean that multiple&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[33,3210,3209,40],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurant-solutions-blog","tag-waste-reduction","tag-successful-restaurant-operation","tag-sustainability-trends","tag-sustainability-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}