Cracking Community Cafés: Getting the food right
The second in an series of fact sheets produced by Ethical Eats and Making Local Food Work to help new and existing community cafés get to grips with the basics of running a successful enterprise. This fact sheet looks at your menu and ingredients. It suggests ways to serve up delicious, local and sustainable food whilst keeping prices affordable. It also suggests ways to keep food waste in check.
This is the second in an series of fact sheets produced by Ethical Eats and Making Local Food Work to help new and existing community cafés get to grips with the basics of running a successful enterprise.
This fact sheet looks at your menu and the ingredients you use. It takes you back to basic principles and suggests ways to serve up delicious, local and sustainable food whilst keeping your prices affordable. It also suggests ways in which you can keep food waste in check.
Ethical Eats: Ethical Eats ran a network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability.
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