With up to 70% of an operator’s emissions being from food (Scope 3 emissions) this integration will bring together the Forum’s existing carbon emissions data across all scopes and the dish-level data available through Nutritics’ Foodprint solution.
This is designed to help operators better manage and measure carbon emissions, remove complexity and automate reporting across all aspects of menu engineering to drive down carbon impacts at dish level.
Mark Chapman, Zero Carbon Forum chief executive, said: “Food is a leading source of hospitality’s climate impact. To take real action and make meaningful reductions in emissions, creating sustainable menus is key.
“By integrating Foodprint outputs into our platform, operators will now be able to capture dish-level data, enabling food development teams to not only easily measure and manage low or no carbon recipes, but also see at a glance the potential and actual cost-savings that simple food switches could contribute to the bottom line.”
This integration comes as Zero Carbon Forum launches its Sustainable Menus Action Group with support from Nutritics and Brakes to enable operator food teams to collaborate on low carbon menus.
Stephen Nolan, chief executive at Nutritics, added: “We’re on a mission to put sustainability at the heart of the food sector. This vital work with Zero Carbon Forum, allows us to continue to educate operators about the substantial environmental and financial benefits we can help them achieve.
“Through our unique tech offering and science-based approach, operators will have access to scientifically robust data and practical tools to make data-driven decisions on their journey to net zero, whatever stage they are at.”