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Article contributed by Mike Berman, COO, Day & Nite/All Service

On the very same day Total Food Service and the Day & Nite Family of Companies partnered to produce and host the inaugural Hospitality Sustainability and Food Waste Summit the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August 2021 labor turnover report.

Besting the 4 million Americans voluntarily leaving their jobs in July, the 4.3 million leaving prior employers in August is the most ever recorded since BLS started tracking these numbers some two decades ago. By far, hospitality set the unenviable pace logging the highest continued volume of employees walking away. While some might find the Summit taking place on the same day BLS issued their report coincidental, there is assuredly deep correlation.

Citing the 2021 Food and Agricultural Benchmark Study, Green in a New World of Clean moderator Eric Israel pulled no punches observing that by comparison to other fields, the industry is a sustainable business practices laggard.  Expert panelist Emerald Brand’s RJ Bianculli quickly referred to considerable research showing a growing percentage of the workforce expects employers will have serious, evolving commitment to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policy.  Just as consumer behaviors, tastes and demands continue to evolve, in a labor constrained environment data shows employee preferences are changing at even more rapid rates.  Businesses seeking to remove hiring barriers, simultaneously reducing unprecedented turnover rates, are wise to adopt or accelerate tangible ESG programs.  But cultivating the right workforce hardly ends there.

ABCO’s Brandon Bradley and Atmos Air’s Tony Abate—both globally recognized for their unrivaled knowledge—raised the importance of indoor environmental quality as major workplace health and safety concerns highly influencing employee behaviors.  Where HVAC had long been relegated to just comfort heating and cooling, both raised the fact every living organism is breathing yet few of us actually know what we’re breathing when we’re indoors.  No less important, while we have monitors for just about everything in our homes and offices, the lack of air quality monitoring and reporting represents an opportunity to attract and retain employees and customers.  Although the general public may not realize it, HVAC, indoor air quality technologies are advancing at the same pace as more visible ones like smart phones.  Not only are high-impact solutions more affordable in of themselves, but Con Edison’s Shaun Hoyte rattled off a series of incentives and programs available to all business types and sizes—particularly restaurants—designed to radically reduce direct expenses while improving overall equipment efficiency.  After all, HVAC is the single largest drain on the energy grid with the always operating refrigeration tracking not too far behind..

Even those casually acquainted with NYC Hospitality Alliance’s Andrew Rigie know him to be an insightful leader, uniquely able to see the future with clarity because he has such a firm grasp on current conditions.  His strong guidance to build sustainable business practices into the ethos of every operation is echoed by State University New York-Canton professor Dr Rajiv Narula’s sage advice “if we all adopt Paris Agreement  standards in our daily lives, business affairs, it really doesn’t matter what governments do, especially because grassroots always moves governments”Michael DiNuzzo, NYU’s Associate Director-Campus Services is as widely recognized in education as Andrew Rigie is for restaurant & bar leadership, his words always have the meaning of someone routinely getting results.  Included in his many profound and practical panel discussion ideas is adopting the right, most relevant technologies as the pathway for change in an engaged, thorough, integrated and permanent ESG process.

  • BelGioioso Burrata
  • Imperial Dade
  • McKee Foodservice
  • Inline Plastics Safe-T-Chef
  • T&S Brass Eversteel Pre-Rinse Units
  • DAVO Sales Tax
  • Red Gold Sacramento
  • Texas Pete
  • Atosa USA
  • RATIONAL USA
  • RAK Porcelain
  • Day & Nite
  • Simplot Frozen Avocado
  • AyrKing Mixstir

With a PhD in applied economics and leading a SUNY agribusiness program, Dr Hiren Bhavsar is uniquely qualified to lead any discussion about producing quantifiably positive change throughout the end-to-end food production to waste cycle.  Going beyond Scientific Direct’s detailed analysis and approach effective technology was highlighted as a major influence for cost-effectively reducing food waste and methane as well as co2 emissions (NOTE: special thanks to audience member Matt Keller Trace.Tech CEO & Co-Founder for sharing ScienceDirect’s study with us!).  More than a tagline “Inspired By Nature, Fueled By Science” defines Orca Digestors as the epitome of efficient, cost-reducing technology.  Robert Gates description of how Orca products function clearly resonates with a labor pool determined to work only for enterprises with serious, measurable sustainable business practice action.

It has been said that crisis changes behavior.  With dual labor and environmental crises as catalysts, Sustainability and Food Waste moderators and panelists provided immediate, practical means and methods for every hospitality industry segment.  In keeping with that commitment, October 12, 2021 is but a start of Day & Nite/All/Service/Popular Plumbing/Performance Air Mechanical and Total Food Service’s commitment.  Everyone not only looks forward to the next Summit, producers & hosts Matt Sher and Fred Klashman promise the next one will be even bigger, better and (FINALLY!) in person rather than another virtual event

  • Red Gold Sacramento
  • Imperial Dade
  • Inline Plastics Safe-T-Chef
  • T&S Brass Eversteel Pre-Rinse Units
  • Texas Pete
  • McKee Foodservice
  • DAVO Sales Tax
  • Atosa USA
  • BelGioioso Burrata
  • Day & Nite
  • RATIONAL USA
  • AyrKing Mixstir
  • Simplot Frozen Avocado
  • RAK Porcelain