In Our Community

Restaurants create a lot of waste. Produce, wine and other food supplies often come in cardboard boxes; a tremendous amount of fruit and vegetable parings get discarded, along with leftovers; bottles and cans from wine, beer, juice, cider, lemonade, etc, etc get emptied and thrown out; and cooking oil must be regularly changed and safely removed.

ZenKitchen is no different - except perhaps how we deal with this waste.

Along with a garbage bin, we rent a cardboard recycling bin from BMI waste management services. They also pick up cans and bottles, all of which get recycled.

Our cooking oil is picked up by an area man who converts it to bio-diesel for his personal use, saving us both money and keeping the oil out of the landfill.

And our food scraps and leftovers - approximately 60 gallons each week - goes to a local farmer for compost.

We're proud of these initiatives, and we'll continue trying to find ways to improve our ecological footprint.