{"id":13215,"date":"2017-07-18T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=13215"},"modified":"2017-07-18T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T21:00:15","slug":"5-steps-to-successful-local-sourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/5-steps-to-successful-local-sourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 steps to successful local sourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">The sustainable restaurant Association has some tips that can help you source locally. More than 50 percent of our foods come from overseas and over 95 percent of our fruit is from overseas. Most British people thought it was important to eat locally but thought it would be hard to do so. Challenge your typical supplier by telling them what the local area has. Tap into social media to find more food. Promote your producers and they will prosper with you.<\/p>\n<p id=\"takeawayheader\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">Eyes down for a full larder. Instagram and Twitter are fast becoming the smart way to spot the best new producers in your neighbourhood.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">View each month as a menu creator and generator of fresh new tastes and flavours rather than seeing the seasons as a straight-jacket<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">By showcasing the fabulous produce you\u2019re sourcing and the people producing it, you\u2019ll be feeding your customers\u2019 passion for provenance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;There\u2019s an amazing larder on the doorstep of most restaurants. A great starting point for tapping into this networks of fabulous producers is to challenge your largest supplier to tell you what produce is available in your local area&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bighospitality.co.uk\/Business\/5-steps-to-successful-local-sourcing\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bighospitality.co.uk\/Business\/5-steps-to-successful-local-sourcing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"task_trail\" style=\"display:none\">(abstract 30UZJB2POHCM5YP47XX9TIIPJZO534 3TK8OJTYM1LCX17Z1OHVY3B91D4PVN A7UHLVF8JINUG)(authorquote 3VMHWJRYHVGQNTP7XYH6MAY6FO4XFG 3KV0LJBBH2LEJRT50OKTG2SBB2NRM7 A1E5J6R70RF4LA)(keypoints 3OKP4QVBP2XK5GD9X8VAKNNKFIWAGP 3E337GFOL98TCJ5RWE5HUD34EJRGN5 A1E5J6R70RF4LA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sustainable restaurant Association has some tips that can help you source locally. More than 50 percent of our foods come from overseas and over 95 percent of our fruit is from overseas. Most British people thought it was important to eat locally but thought it would be hard to do so. Challenge your typical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}