See How Easily You Can Increase Revenue By Conserving Water In Your Restaurant
The economy isn’t doing too well. It hasn’t been doing well for some years now. Everyone knows that. As a restaurant owner, what can you do to cut down on expenses and increase revenue?
One way is to control your use of water. Foodservice establishments use a lot for water – for cooking, cleaning up, washing dishes, and serving guests. Water conservation not only saves your money, you also earn the bragging rights to say your restaurant is a clean and environment-friendly business.
Here are some tips on how to conserve water in your restaurant.
1. Wait for customers to place an order. Don’t serve them one full glass each right away assuming each guest is going to drink it. And don’t spoil your customers with bottled water either as it’s much more expensive. Instead serve them water from the tap installed with a filtering apparatus to ensure its drinking quality.
2. Install a pre-rinse sink in the kitchen. These babies can save you a lot of water, especially since rinsing is one of the biggest culprits of excessive water use in most restaurants.
3. Remind the staff to dishwash full racks only. Thing is many restaurants have some variation of this regulation in effect, but most employees simply choose not to follow, and that’s that. Reinforce the rule from time to time that only a full rack of dirty dishes should go into the dishwasher.
4. Fix leaky faucets right away. Don’t wait for a few months before getting around to hiring someone to fix that leaky faucet in the back kitchen. A single drop of water can quickly add up to several thousand gallons each month. Now that’s a lot of money down the drain.
There are probably hundreds of different ways to go green with your restaurant, but I’ll tell you this: responsible use of water is no doubt one of the best ways to go about preserving the environment. Water conservation. It’s something every restaurant owner in every corner of the Earth should put into practice.
Do you have any more tips to share on how to conserve water in your restaurant? Leave a comment below.