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title: "Restaurants: Here To Serve You Food and Fight Climate Change"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/2c617385-b09a-46fc-bf13-f9441ca88a33
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/restaurants-here-to-serve-you-food-and-fight-climate-change-2710912
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2019-09-03T20:15:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:31:19.371Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/0fdbe03028ff015302c3fefb51db177d9600.jpg
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# Restaurants: Here To Serve You Food and Fight Climate Change

**TL;DR:** Restaurants can play a key role in reversing climate change through new agricultural practices and sustainability trends, such as reusable dishes and carbon farming. The U.S. restaurant industry could fund practices to offset half of the U.S. gasoline consumption by adding a 1% charge towards carbon farming and environmental projects.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-09-03. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/restaurants-here-to-serve-you-food-and-fight-climate-change-2710912).*

## Story

Restaurants just might be the key in the climate change clash. According to Food Tank, new agricultural practices have been discovered that could potentially reverse climate change. How does this fall into a restaurant’s lap? Well, the restaurant industry is the largest sector in the food system believe it or not––therefore having the most impact.

Sustainability has been an ongoing trend in the food industry––from brands replacing plastic with reusable dishes to high-tech machines that encourage reusable water bottles, the restaurant industry is putting its greenest foot forward. Zero Foodprint––an organization helping restaurants educate consumers––is doing its part for the Earth by engaging and encouraging restaurants to fund sustainable farming practices. The newest such practice is one that draws carbon from the atmosphere and places it into soil, known as carbon farming. So, how does this relate to restaurants?

“If the U.S. restaurant industry added a 1% charge at restaurants and sent it towards carbon farming in the food system and other environmental projects, it could fund practices that would offset half of the U.S. gasoline consumption,” said Zero Foodprint Co-Founder Anthony Myint. “The practicality of carbon farming is the biggest climate opportunity and probably the biggest story in food.”

Zero Foodprint has already signed-on some of the most world-renowned restaurant chefs and with the help of other restaurateurs, this could be the start of something huge.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- climate change (topic)
- sustainability trends (topic)
- agricultural practices (topic)
- carbon farming (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/restaurants-here-to-serve-you-food-and-fight-climate-change-2710912). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/2c617385-b09a-46fc-bf13-f9441ca88a33).