Boparan Restaurant Group: All brands now carbon neutral

Its brands have been using energy from renewable sources since 2019.

Boparan Restaurant Group (BRG) announced that all of its brands are now certified as carbon neutral.

The company said all its ten brands – Carluccio’s, Caffè Carluccio’s, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Slim Chickens UK, The Cinnamon Collection (including The Cinnamon Club), FishWorks, Ed’s Easy Diner, Giraffe, Rebel Vegan and the umbrella BRG brand – have been using energy from renewable sources since 2019 and have now been certified by Carbon Neutral Britain.

This certification also sees BRG actively helping to fund renewable energy, woodland preservation, and tree planting projects around the world, regulated by the Verra Verified Carbon Standard, Gold Standard Voluntary Emission Reductions, and the United Nations Certified Emission Reductions programmes. 

Brand-specific sustainability campaigns, such as Carluccio’s partnership with The Rainforest Alliance which sees every coffee bought preserving 33m2 of rainforest, will continue alongside wider group initiatives.

“This is an early step in our sustainability journey and our ultimate aim is to achieve true Net Zero across all our brands, and we continue to seek and implement scientific methods to get there,” BRG CEO Satnam Leihal said in a media release.

“Offsetting is not a complete solution, but understanding our carbon use and supporting so many brilliant projects worldwide does negate the direct emissions created by our business today, bringing immediate benefit to the environment while we work towards bigger change.”