Green Kitchen Standard

 Enhancing reputation

Credible reassurance

Provides comprehensive and credible reassurance to customers, staff and stakeholders

Commitment to sustainable practices

Demonstrates a commitment to sustainable catering across a wide set of criteria

Delivering efficiencies

Evaluating operational practices

Provides critical input to evaluating current operational and environmental practices

Identifies efficiencies

Helps identify opportunities to improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs

Facilitating compliance

Supports tendering for contracts

Supports compliance with procurement requirements and helps in tendering for new and existing contracts

Aligns with government requirements

Offers an independent verification standard that aligns with Defra’s Balanced Scorecard

Meeting the standard

Points are awarded to caterers based on actions taken to reduce energy, water and waste. Some suggestions of ways to score points are

Energy, water or waste policy 

Providing staff training

Having improvement targets in place

Providing free tap water

Working with suppliers to reduce energy, water or waste

Staff communications

Having energy or water-efficient equipment

 Redesigning menu to minimise food waste

Maintaining equipment

Having a responsibility structure in place

Composting food waste

Engaging with landlord to install sub-metering

Calculating a carbon foodprint

Customer communication

Having a switch-off policy

Monitoring energy, water or waste

Environmentally conscious sourcing

Providing recycling bins for staff and customers

Applying the Government Buying Standards

Donating surplus food

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