Pizza Pilgrims unites with Zero Carbon Forum
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2nd August 2023: Pizza Pilgrims has joined Zero Carbon Forum to accelerate its progress to net zero, and share its sustainability insight and learnings across the sector.
One of the biggest challenges that pizza companies face is how to address the environmental impact of dairy production, which can contribute significant greenhouse gas emissions. The forum is bringing pizza restaurants together from across the UK to tackle the issue, including Pizza Hut, Pizza Express and Azzurri Group, working with Dairy UK as part of the forum’s Dairy Action Group, to understand the UK footprint and levers to reduce it.
Pizza Pilgrims, which operates in 14 different locations across London, Oxford, Brighton, Nottingham, and Cambridge, is journeying towards B-Corp certification and net zero. Recently the company launched Plant Pilgrims, an initiative dedicated to developing new greener innovations including making its packaging as sustainable as possible.
Thom Elliot, Co-founder of Pizza Pilgrims said: “At Pizza Pilgrims it has always been important to us to run the business the “right” way – looking after our people and our community in a genuine and authentic way. A huge part of this mission is to help protect the planet - so as part of our journey to become a B-Corp, we have launched ‘Planet Pilgrims’. This is our way to energise our teams, guests and suppliers around the challenges we all face as we look to reduce our carbon impact over the coming years.”
Mark Chapman, Founder and CEO, Zero Carbon Forum said: “We are delighted to welcome Pizza Pilgrims to the forum. We look forward to working with Thom and the Pizza Pilgrims team through our many initiatives such as our Dairy Action Group, as well as sharing the learnings of the many initiatives they’ve already implemented. This growing collaboration of the pizza operators will accelerate the changes we need in our supply chain to both reduce emissions and build resilience as we head towards net zero, at pace.”
Thom Elliot continued: “Joining the Zero Carbon Forum will help Pizza Pilgrims unlock the knowledge and expertise that comes with collaboration, helping us and others along the way. Net zero is a not just a target for us, it helps us drive innovation and take our partners on a collective journey. We are excited to see what we can achieve, and we have already made real progress with our sustainable-driven pizzeria in Selfridges and our soon-to-launch new sustainable menu.”
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About Zero Carbon Forum
Zero Carbon Forum is a non-profit organisation which builds on 10 years of carbon reduction collaboration in the UK’s hospitality and Brewing sector. It enables members to reach their decarbonisation targets faster, more efficiently and more cost effectively than acting alone.
Members pledge to work collaboratively, by sharing carbon reduction plans and initiatives. By combining expertise and resources the forum helps to identify all possible actions to decarbonise operations across tens of thousands of outlets and their supply chains.
In October 2021 Zero Carbon Forum published its publicly available roadmap for hospitality to achieve net zero carbon, followed by the launch of its Save While You Sleep programme, a simple and impactful two-stage ‘10-minute’ shutdown process, combined with analytics from members’ energy smart meters to achieve substantial cost reductions and reduce emissions.
In April 2022 the forum launched a Carbon Calculator and Toolkit, developed in collaboration with UKHospitality, BBPA, and powered by Sky, which enables hospitality operators and brewers to calculate their carbon footprint and identify achievable key actions to reduce emissions. In July 2023 the forum announced the launch of Marketplace, a ‘first of its kind’ new services directory designed to connect innovative supply chain businesses with brewing and hospitality operators to help them reach net zero faster.
The forum also hosts sector focused Action Groups which enables members to act, drive impact, and reach net zero targets faster and more efficiently all while saving vital costs.
Zero Carbon Forum is endorsed by government and backed by trade associations UK Hospitality and the British Beer and Pub Association. In 2023 it was the winner of the Foodservice Footprint Energy Efficiency Award for Save While You Sleep.
Members include leading UK and global hospitality organisations including Adnams, Azzurri Group, Bluestone Resorts, Bone Daddy’s, Boparan Restaurants, Brewdog, Burger King UK, Côte Restaurant Group, Everard’s Brewery, Fuller’s, Glendola Leisure, Greene King, Hall & Woodhouse, Honest Burgers, Imperial Hotels London, InterContinental Hotels (IHG) Hotels & Resorts, JD Wetherspoon, KFC, Marston's PLC, Marugame Udon (Europe) Ltd, McDonald’s UK and Ireland, McMullen’s Brewery, Mercato Metropolitano Ltd, Mitchells & Butlers PLC (MAB), Mowgli Street Food, Nando's UK and IRE, Nightcap PLC, Pig's Head, Clapham, Pizza Express, Pizza Hut Restaurants UK, PPHE Hotel Group, Punch Pubs Group Ltd ,Revolution Bars, Rare Restaurants, Riley’s, Robinsons, Shepherd-Neame Ltd, St. Austell, State of Play, Stonegate, The Lowry, The Restaurant Group (including Wagamama), Wadworth Brewery, Where The Pancakes Are, Whitbread PLC, WSH, and Young & Co. Brewery, PLC.
