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Restaurants were excited about this plan to reduce food waste. Why did it fail?


Restaurants were excited about this plan to reduce food waste. Why did it fail?

At the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns, when restaurants were surviving on takeout and delivery and household garbage cans were overflowing with discarded to-go containers, Dispatch Goods launched a restaurant service with reusable containers that many hoped would be the long-awaited elegant solution to the problem of bloated restaurant waste. In January 2021, the San […]

Minnie Bell’s moves to San Francisco and other restaurants recently leave the company


Minnie Bell’s moves to San Francisco and other restaurants recently leave the company

Restaurant closures in Berkeley Gilman Grill 08.01.24: Gilman Grill’s last day was July 31, after “maybe 30 years or so,” said an employee in the quiet, nearly empty, old-fashioned little restaurant on its last day of operation (it was open for 33 years), smiling and shrugging. “It was a good time.” The highly visible shop […]