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Burgerville Becomes First Restaurant Chain to Join Farm Forward’s Leadership Circle

Farm Forward, a national animal-welfare nonprofit, has invited Burgerville to join its Leadership Circle, a program intended to leverage the buying power of institutions to change the way animals are raised for food. Burgerville is the first restaurant chain to receive this invitation. “Burgerville is a leader in aligning values-based purchasing,” says Andrew deCoriolis, executive director at Farm Forward. “Through thoughtful procurement policies, they are improving the welfare […]

Just Salad Names First Chief Sustainability Officer

Just Salad, home of the World’s Largest Restaurant Reusable Program, has appointed Janani Lee as its first-ever Chief Sustainability Officer to lead the company in expanding its sustainability practices. “Hiring a Chief Sustainability Officer is a huge milestone for Just Salad and for the restaurant sustainability movement at large,” says Nick Kenner, Just Salad Founder […]

Farm Burger Recognized for Sustainability Practices

Farm Burger, a restaurant group offering 100 percent grassfed, grass-finished beef burgers, has been recognized for its role in promoting good food and sustainable food systems on the annual Good Food 100 Restaurants List from the Good Food Media Network. The Good Food 100 Restaurants list is carefully curated based on the quantitative measurement of […]

Dunkin’, National DCP Team to Boost Coffee Sustainability

Just ahead of National Coffee Day this Saturday, Dunkin’ and National DCP (NDCP), the franchisee-owned supply chain management cooperative, announced a five-year agreement with World Coffee Research, a nonprofit collaborative research and development program of the global coffee industry, to boost coffee sustainability. A percentage of sales from every pound of Original Blend coffee beans […]

Freight Farms Adds On-Site Vertical Farming Service

Freight Farms, a leading innovator of smart hydroponic software and containerized growing environments, announced the addition of Grown by Freight Farms, an on-site vertical farming service, to its product line. With Grown, Freight Farms will not only install its signature hydroponic farm—the Leafy Green Machine—on site, but staff a designated farmer to operate, monitor, and […]