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Throwing food away has severe consequences, including environmental harm, starvation, and financial waste. Thankfully, there are plenty of methods you can employ to decrease food waste in your QSR—while boosting profitability. Read more here as we discuss sustainability strategies to help your QSR sustainability strategy. The United States has a serious problem with food waste. Of the 229 million tons of food produced in the US in 2019, consumers, retailers, and restaurants wasted 35% of it. While charitable organizations donated some of this “surplus” to those in need, most of it wound up in...
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Quarterly Market Review: Q3 2022 By: Paul Dickson, Director of Research and Mark Stevens, Chief Investment Officer How much are recession expectations already priced in? The third quarter of 2022 will be remembered as the turning point in the battle against inflation. Global central banks, led by the U.S. Federal Reserve, appeared to decide that risking a recession would be preferable to risking rising inflation, and the markets took heed. U.S. equity markets started the quarter by recovering from earlier declines. This recovery was quickly upended by the Fed’s unsettlingly sharp interest rate...
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Sustainability remains front and center in people’s minds today, and this is particularly true in the business sector. In this blog post, we discuss 10 sustainable business practices that can have a powerful impact. Read on to find out more. Modern companies are increasingly turning to sustainable business practices for innovative and impactful solutions to ongoing challenges. With such high levels of environmental awareness among their consumer base, organizations of all shapes and sizes should take sustainability factors into consideration in order to remain competitive. Sustainable business...
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Inflation has had a significant impact on businesses and this can lead to a financial stress. However, it is possible for businesses to increase buyer traffic and boost sales even in times of market chaos by employing strategic product and service bundling. Read more here. To combat inflation and slow spending, the US Federal Reserve recently announced the fourth interest rate hike of 2022. Raising interest rates by another three-quarter of a percentage point—after just doing so in June, marking the most significant rate hike in 22 years—will generate even wider ripple effects throughout the...
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As of May 2022, annual inflation hit 8.6%, and the Fed hiked interest rates by .75%, begging questions about the future of CRE and equipment loans. Find out more as we pick apart CRE loans, diving into what business leaders across all branches of industry need to know moving forward. For those looking to expand or even break ground, understanding how inflation and rising rates will affect your CRE and equipment loans is crucial to financial success. Everyone has felt inflation's sting in one way or another. Supply chain issues persist in the waning days of the pandemic; meanwhile, the...