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Restaurant Sustainability

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What makes a restaurant sustainable? Sustainability is officially a trend now. Restaurants

everywhere are claiming that they are practicing sustainability. Restaurants growing and raising

their own ingredients is an example of sustainability. Restaurants also buy their ingredients from

local farms. There is more to restaurant sustainability though; I personally think Starbucks is a

great example of a company that is trying to be sustainable, but can they do more?

Some people think that there is no point to sustainability. I disagree because “the basic

rule of human existence is to sustain the conditions life depends on” (Engel, 2014, 1). There are a

lot of restaurants think about how much food they use. A lot of that food is wasted …show more content…

A trend in sustainability may not seem like it is enough, but it is. With just a few restaurants

practicing sustainability many more have begun practicing sustainability. If restaurants continue

with this what was a trend will become a standard. Even restaurants like Mcdonald's will begin

start using sustainable practices. Compared to previous decades though sustainability was viewed

more positively, now not so much (Engel, 2014) We still need to work on sustainability.
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I mentioned earlier that Starbucks is a good example of a restaurant that practices sustainability.

A huge chain like Starbucks may not seem like it practices sustainability but it does, and I think

it is important for huge chains to set an example. To start Starbucks is owned by Howard

Schultz, and began in Seattle, Washington; it now has locations all over the world with 191,000

employees from all sorts of backgrounds (Dyer, 2015). Starbucks has a fast food style service

with a menu that has baked goods and sandwiches for breakfast and lunch, but is mainly

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