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Les Routiers to list SRA ratings on its website

SRA logoThe Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has teamed up with eating out guide Les Routiers UK & Ireland, which will highlight establishments' sustainability credentials on its website...
Posted: 16 May 2012 | 10:06

Brett Graham cooks at Number 10 Downing Street for VisitBritain’s Food is Great

Brett GrahamMichelin-starred chef Brett Graham is to cater for more than 150 top British chefs, restaurateurs and food producers at a reception at Number 10 Downing Street today. The event will launch VisitBritain's Food is Great, a key element of its GREAT Britain campaign, in partnership with the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA).
Posted: 30 April 2012 | 11:46

Accor aims for 10% CO2 emissions reduction by 2015

Accor Sept 2011Hotel group Accor has announced plans to reduce its worldwide CO2 emissions by 10% by 2015, even as the company continues with its plans to grow by around 40,000 rooms each year. Those were the proposals laid out in its new sustainability programme, Planet 21, launched this morning.
Posted: 13 April 2012 | 10:41

D&D London’s receives across-the-board star ratings from the Sustainable Restaurant Association

SRA logoPaternoster Chop House has led restaurant group D&D London's across-the-board success following its recent evaluation from the Sustainable Restaurant Association. As a whole, the group achieved a two-star rating (out of a possible three), with most individual sites being awarded this.
Posted: 12 April 2012 | 12:10

Ethical Eats asks London restaurants to serve offal for Nose-to-Tail Fortnight

Catererandhotekeeper NewsCatering network Ethical Eats is calling on London restaurants to get involved in its Nose-to-Tail Fortnight promoting offal and lesser-known cuts of meat. The event, which will run from 30 April to 14 May, is designed to raise awareness both among chefs and consumers about unnecessary food waste.
Posted: 05 April 2012 | 17:22

Pret A Manger’s expansion plans mean 550 new UK jobs

Pret A MangerSandwich chain Pret A Manger is to create 550 UK jobs as part of ongoing expansion plans after a year of record sales and store openings. The 286-strong chain, which launched in London in 1986, plans to open 44 stores in 2012, of which 20 will be overseas, including its first in Boston in the USA.
Posted: 03 April 2012 | 11:46

Harden's to become first restaurant guide to include SRA ratings

Harden's logo_150The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has teamed up with Harden's, which will become the first restaurant guide to highlight establishments' sustainability credentials alongside its ratings for food, service and atmosphere.
Posted: 03 April 2012 | 11:27

Perthshire hotels join forces to film green credentials

Green videoA group of competing hotels in Perthshire have come together to produce a film showcasing the area's environmental tourism credentials to audiences throughout the UK and overseas. The film features Perthshire's Green Resorts group working together to exchange ideas and promote sustainability.
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 12:28

Considerate Hotel of the Year Awards deadline extended

Considerate HoteliersThe deadline for the Considerate Hotel of the Year Awards 2011/12 has been extended to 18 April. Accommodation providers at every level - bed and breakfast operations, guesthouses, pubs, inns and restaurants with rooms...
Posted: 28 March 2012 | 11:01

How to... reduce energy costs

energyGovernment departments and businesses regularly launch their own energy efficiency schemes, which can be confusing, especially for small businesses that have not yet taken action to reduce their carbon footprint.
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 12:08

New wave of Responsibility Deal pledges announced by health secretary

Andrew LansleyA new wave of Responsibility Deal pledges have been announced, one year on from the introduction of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's approach to improving public health. Compass Group, Unilever and Tesco were among a list of the country's biggest food outlets, manufacturers and supermarkets...
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 17:35

WSH wins Good Food on the Public Plate Award

The UK's largest independent catering firm Westbury Street Holdings (WSH) has won a Good Food on the Public Plate Award for its commitment to offering a sustainable food service through its BaxterStorey, Caterlink and Holroyd Howe businesses.
Posted: 23 March 2012 | 14:50

Licensed industry welcomes Government plans to introduce minimum alcohol pricing

David CameronPlans to introduce minimum alcohol pricing have been announced by the coalition today, in a bid to tackle the country's problem with binge-drinking. Proposals were revealed in the Government's Alcohol Strategy: Choice, Challenge and Responsibility, after Prime Minister David Cameron said it was no longer acceptable that "beer is cheaper than water".
Posted: 23 March 2012 | 11:25

Birmingham's Green Restaurant Award winners announced

Birmingham's most environmentally-conscious restaurants were honoured at the city's third annual Green Restaurant Awards, with ChangeKitchen, Glynn Purnell's...
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 09:48

McDonald's to offer 100% British chicken in Olympic restaurants

McDonald's logoThe Green Party has claimed it helped to sway McDonald's into serving only British chicken in its four restaurants at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Green Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones said she had pressured McDonald's into increasing its domestic chicken supply...
Posted: 19 March 2012 | 17:40

Pub firms Peach and Renaissance join Sustainable Restaurant Association

sustainable restaurant association logoPub firms Peach and Renaissance have both joined the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA). Renaissance, with six pubs in south London, and Peach, with 15 pubs in the Home Counties and the Midlands, are the latest recruits to an association which now has a membership of more than 700 restaurants, pubs, contract and mobile caterers.
Posted: 15 March 2012 | 15:37

Mobile caterer Squid & Pear wins Sustainable Restaurant Association’s top rating

Squid & PearSquid & Pear has become the first mobile caterer to receive a sustainability rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA). The Putney-based business has been recognised as three star champions, the top rating in the SRA scheme.
Posted: 09 March 2012 | 10:29

Kempinski Hotels launches energy consultancy

Kempinski Hotels claims to be the first hotel group worldwide to create its own energy consultancy, aimed specifically for the industry's needs. KREEN, standing for Kempinski Renewable Energies, aims to optimise energy consumption management at Kempinski hotels and other hotel brands. It will...
Posted: 07 March 2012 | 10:49

Sodexo switches to Fairtrade sugar

Tate and Lyle Sugars White Sugar CubesSodexo has further sealed its commitment to ethical sourcing with the announcement that all loose and cubed sugar at its 929 restaurants and cafés in the UK is now Fairtrade. The caterer and facilities management firm has partnered with Tate & Lyle Sugars to make the move...
Posted: 06 March 2012 | 11:31

Feng Sushi wins Sustainable City award

Feng Sushi logoJapanese restaurant and take-away chain Feng Sushi has won a Sustainable City award. Managing director and co-founder Silla Bjerrum took home the "green gong" in the sustainable food category, which this year focused on sustainable fish and was judged by celebrated Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc.
Posted: 02 March 2012 | 17:21

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