LibGuides: Hotel/Restaurant/Tourism Management: Restaurant Corner

Resturant Food Web Resources

Marscafe Chef's Portal
The Marscafe is an electronic platform for fellow professional chefs and others interested in the mysteries of the kitchen. Practical information, Caribbean recipes, interactivity and Dominican Republic culinary insights can be found here. The focus of this web site is on Hospitality Industry Food and Beverage cost controls. The goal is to create an educational and informational web resource, utilizing original content, articles, downloads, interactive exams, surveys, primers, and forum interactivity.
Restaurant Food Cost Calculator for Portion and Menu Costing
This free online recipe cost calculator will help you to quickly and easily break down bulk food purchase costs into portion costs.
"Restaurant" search on U.S. Small Business Administration website
Over 2,000 results waiting to be whittled down.

Pandemic trends drive changes in food service equipment needs
As the “mass feeding” model recedes due to cultural and COVID-related forces, the types of equipment operators look to are seeing a shift.
5 tech things: Sodexo to expand Kiwi robots to 50 campuses by year's end
This and Compass rolling out high-tech Farmshelf hydroponic farm units across multiple markets are some of the tech-related developments you may have missed recently.
CKC Good Food Facility Expansion Means More Business, Better Food
A big move has allowed the school caterer to double its capacity.
Fresh Ideas Food Service develops comprehensive plant-based menu
Launched on Mindful Fork plant-based menu concept program coincides with Fresh Ideas Food Service Management’s announcement to eventually provide one plant-based entrée for every meat-based option.
Chefs to Watch: Chartwells K12's Chef Liberty Rodgers
A whirlwind career path within the hospitality industry has led Executive Chef with Chartwells K12 Liberty Rodgers at Pembroke Pines (Fla.) Charter Schools to a whole new culinary world, where she’s also taking on a leadership role in Compass Group’s efforts toward inclusivity and diversity.

Chefs Collaborative
Chefs Collaborative is a national nonprofit network with a mission to inspire, educate, and celebrate chefs and food professionals building a better food system.
Fish Choice
Sustainable seafood buying guide
Green Restaurant Association
Focuses on water efficiency, waste reduction and recycling, sustainable durable goods & building materials, sustainable food, energy, reusables & environmentally preferable disposables, chemical and pollution reduction.
National Restaurant Association
Find procurement and sustainability news and information under the "Manage My Restaurant" tab.
Sustainable Foodservice Consulting
Clearinghouse of information on sustainable goods and practices for restaurants founded and operated by Oregon restaurateur Paul Kuck in 2002.