Indie Cafes Struggle Putting Sustainability on the Menu
LONDON, United Kingdom — As large, widespread fast food chains have been pressured and prodded to lower the environmental impacts of their businesses, the same has not been asked of independent quick-service cafes and takeout spots, resulting in many offering unhealthy food with little incentive to improve the sustainability of their operations.
The U.K.-based New Economics Foundation (NEF) writes about the state of sustainability, healthfulness of food and social conditions in the so-called “casual eating” sector in its new report, “An Inconvenient Sandwich: The Throwaway Economics of Takeaway Food.” Although the group based its report on interviews with cafe and quick-service restaurants in south London, the overall message is applicable elsewhere: The casual eating sector must be included in discussions and policies to increase the sustainability of the food industry…
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