Your Free Guide to Smart, Effective Sustainability Communications Inspired by their recent Working Group, The Sustainable Restaurant Association has created a free-to-download PDF guide to creating effective communications around your sustainability work. Once your business is doing the work on sustainability, it’s important to share it with your customers, staff and stakeholders; being open and […]
The Sustainable Restaurant Association explores what it means to celebrate provenance in your procurement strategies, in your kitchen and on your menu. Provenance can be described as the story behind your food: where and how it was grown, raised, caught or made, and who was responsible for doing so. More than ever, diners want to […]
The Real Junk Food Project has launched a fundraising campaign to open a full-time pay-as-you-feel restaurant in Manchester next year, using only food destined to be thrown out. The project needs to raise £20,000 by January 13 in order to go ahead, with pledges being sought through Crowdfunder. Chef Mary-Ellen McTague, formerly of the Fat Duck and Manchester’s Aumbry, […]
Chefs must use their influence to guide consumers towards more sustainable ways of eating, Andrew Stephen, CEO of the Sustainable Restaurant Association, said this week. He was speaking at a sold-out dinner hosted by Peter Harden and Raymond Blanc, president of the SRA, at the Belmond Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, and attended by a food-loving crowd including […]
How important is sustainability to you – the diner? We want to know! Here at Harden’s we are conscious that restaurants are striving to become more sustainable and less wasteful (it is estimated waste from the food industry alone costs the UK £5bn a year). Many establishments now source their ingredients locally and from sustainable suppliers, […]
