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The Future of F&B
Hello, I’m Shu, and today we are going to be talking about the future of FNB as a part of our Design and Hospitality podcast series. Joining me are two highly admired FNB professionals, James Knight-Pacheco and Alex Moser. Before we begin, would you like to introduce yourselves, please? So, my name is James Knight-Pacheco. I am the co-founder of Group JKP, I’m also the co-founder of the Dubai chefs collective. My name is Alex I work for email hospitality group and I’m a chef for the last 24 years and really happy to be here I am so glad that you have joined us today. Thank you so much for your time I’m super excited to actually understand a bit more about FNB and one of the key things that we hear is sustainability Which leads me actually to asking you? What are some of the key initiatives or practices that FNB businesses can adopt to enhance sustainability? sustainability within their operations nowadays. Alex, would you like to go first? Yeah, I think, you know, looking at the overall and looking especially at the hospitality segment, I think there’s a lot of things from us to actually work on a more sustainable future. Again, one of the main key initiatives which we are taking as a group is literally to reduce single-use plastic. We implemented bottling plan in some of our hotels to really minimize the usage of this, you know, Food waste, I think, is one of the main factors we are constantly working on, you know, introducing life stations on the buffets rather than having this big cheving dish. And again, I think everybody has a big part to play, even from the customer perspective. Local farming is something which is very close to my heart, and I always believe that, you know, we as chefs need to get more initiatives on understanding where our product comes from, especially in the UAE. surprisingly I came 20 years ago and there was nothing in the desert and now we literally have a lot of opportunities to source locally and I think we should you know focus on this more which obviously helps the carbon footprint and really helps the environment. Yeah I totally agree I think number one the word sustainability gets thrown around a lot but people don’t necessarily seem to understand it so I would like to have more of an education piece, not just from the government, but from everyone. I think that’s really important to understand it. The local farming, I think absolutely. In Dubai, we’re used to sort of importing everything in, and that carbon footprint is massive.....
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