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9 Chicago Restaurants Reducing Food Waste in Delicious Ways These Chicagoland restaurants are using ingenious cooking techniques to do everything they can to make sure not one scrap of food goes to waste that doesn’t need to. Here are nine delicious dishes you can feel great about ordering.

Looking to plan a catered event or luncheon? Consider Big Delicious Planet, the Greenest Caterer in America, over half a decade running! Check out the impressive work they do: http://www.bigdeliciousplanet.com/green-initiatives

Happy ! Any donation you make to Next Bites will empower us to keep working with members of the foodservice industry—from restaurants and events to school cafeterias and our airport food courts—inspiring them to adopt sustainable practices. (Yes, we thought we’d catch you right at lunch.)

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Tomorrow: Join us for free drinks, free bites & free Amazon gift cards! It's a Hero Power & Next Bites Happy Hour -

Tuesday: Join us for free drinks, free bites & free Amazon gift cards! It's a Hero Power & Next Bites Happy Hour Join Us This Tuesday, 11/19 at 5:30pm – Clean Energy Happy Hour Hero Power and NextBites are hosting a Happy Hour to discuss the easy way restaurants can switch to clean electricity at no additional cost. Plus, Hero Power CEO Ty Benefiel will explain the Hero Power Partners Program, which provides...

100% renewable energy in Chicago? And free drinks & gift cards? Yes, please! -

100% renewable energy in Chicago? And free drinks & gift cards? Yes, please! Yes! It's true. NextBites is excited to announce a partnership with Hero Power, a 100% clean electricity supplier that offers Illinois residents renewable energy at the same rate as ComEd.    Hero Power is offering Chicagoland restaurants the most affordable way to offset their carbon footprin...

A great writeup of West Town’s food scene on Chicago Ave, where our friends at Homestead (and the organic ingredients from their rooftop farm) sit right in the middle.

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/if-theres-better-two-mile-stretch-dining-chicago-we-dont-know-it?

If there’s a better two-mile stretch for dining in Chicago, we don’t know it Chicago Avenue in West Town between Noble Street and California Avenue is a veritable culinary melting pot.

Bravo to these activists and entrepreneurs! The seven featured here are working to bring food-focused change to communities on our city’s South Side.

Activists and farmers tackle food deserts on Chicago’s South Side — 'Food is a tool of resistance’ Using food as a catalyst for community involvement, empowerment and healthful eating, Black South Side food activists and entrepreneurs are bringing change to neighborhoods commonly thought of as food deserts. Here are profiles of seven of these difference-makers.

Ring in the new year at our January meetup! Join us at Colectivo Coffee Logan Square from 5:30-7pm. Jaclyn Wegner from the Shedd Aquarium will be speaking! 🍽

See you all there! 🍽