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Greener Food offered free advice and support for restaurants and cafes across London. Food and drink businesses were supported to operate more efficiently, achieve savings and boost profits through: Over the course of the project over 300 businesses were supported through events, advice and free materials, while a further 300 individuals across the food sector were enabled to improve their skills.
Reducing waste and increasing recycling
Sourcing food from more sustainable sources
Conserving energy and water use
Improved marketing opportunities
Improving the green skills of their workforces
To find out more about Greener Food take a look at our Greener Food Menu which is still available online and contains a range of useful resources.
Background to Greener Food
Our capital offers 60 different cuisines in over 12,000 restaurants, 6,000 cafes and 5,000 pubs, and more.
Londoners produce nearly 900,000 tonnes of food waste - enough to feed 8 million people! And nearly all of the fruit and half of the vegetables we buy in the UK comes from abroad.
This waste and the distance travelled by our groceries is costly to your business and has a damaging effect on the environment. Greener Food helped businesses boost their profits and reputation by tackling this damage.
Greener Food was a three year project which ran until March 2009, with funding from the London Development Agency.
You can find out about the Greener Food partner organisations here.
Find out more about our Towards a Greener Food and Drink Pilot project.
Photograph by Gavin Monk on behalf of London Food Link