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  In Singapore, food waste concerns are on the rise. Last year, we threw out 744 million kg of food – the weight of about 51,000 double-decker buses! The sheer amount of food wastage is troubling in two ways. One, because it adds to the limited space in Singapore’s only landfill. Two, because Singapore must import most of its food due to our limited land resources to grow our own, we’re wasting a significant number of resources and energy that goes into growing, processing, and transporting food for our consumption. This in turn also increases our carbon footprint, as we’ll have to find ways to dispose of the wastage in an environmentally safe manner. What can we do as consumers? For starters, food waste at the consumer level tends to be because we buy too much for our own consumption, and then throw it out once it hits the best-by dates. Another way is when we order too much food when we are eating out at buffets or hawker centres and find ourselves unable to finish our food. In both

  The past 2 years had been terrible with the in-person restrictions and dining-in measures in place for the F&B industry. However, things should look up for the year 2022 as the vast majority of the populace have been inoculated against the covid-virus, and with the latest omicron variant posing no serious threats to vaccinated individuals based on recent reports. For 2022, we’d believe that most individuals will experience some significant events in their life journey as well. Planning for such significant events is nevertheless time-consuming when you strive to make them memorable! As in all kinds of planned events, there is one item that you can’t omit from your list, Food! And sadly, this is also one of the trickiest parts of your list. There are simply too many things to consider when choosing the perfect caterer for your event. Quality of food, presentation, food hygiene and safety, and of course cost! There are many mistakes that people made through the course of catering f