Hive to Honey

Some restaurants are responding to the plight of this and other species. In addition to Miya’s, Tataki Sushi & Sake Bar in San Francisco, Bamboo Sushi in Portland, Ore., and Mashiko in Seattle use only species that aren’t threatened or raised in a way that could be detrimental to the environment.
Next month, at a Convention [...]

Roger Zellner, Kraft Foods director of sustainability for Research, Development & Quality, speaks on issues in packaging sustainability.
packworld.com

As restaurants go, so go the supermarkets. We’ve known for a long time that trends first appearing in restaurants end up on the supermarket shelves or in fast-food outlets a little further down the timeline.
This week in Facts, Figures and the Future, Phil Lempert wrote a piece about the appeal of the supermarket pizza found [...]

Consumers are willing to pay more for a variety of products that are environmentally friendly and sustainable — better known as “green,” according to a Burst Media study.
The survey revealed that 90% of respondents have incorporated some level of greenness into their daily lives — 8.8% are completely green, while most are aspirationally green. [...]

Coca-Cola Co., under fire from environmentalists for using plastic bottles, has introduced a new packaging material made partly from plants. The container has “the same weight, the same feel, the same chemistry, and functions exactly the same way” as a regular plastic bottle, a Coke spokeswoman says.
Wall Street Journal

The guide, available free of charge, provides an overview of several key areas in the food service environment, including: building a business case for sustainability, along with effective measurement tools; procurement of sustainable foods, including local purchasing, food safety, and disposable products; green buildings, including site planning, water efficiency, building materials, HVAC (heating ventilation and [...]

“‘Sustainability’ or ‘green’ franchise companies are a trend,” confirms Alisa Harrison, Vice President of Communications and Marketing at the International Franchise Association (IFA). “We are seeing it in two ways: Those companies that are using their sustainability as a marketing point both to sell franchises and to market to their consumers, and those that are [...]

For three years now, sustainable seafood has appeared on the National Restaurant Association’s top trends for the coming year. Yet it’s not a new trend for the top quick-service brands, which have worked for years to developed sustainable sourcing programs. The bad news is, few people — particularly consumers — seem to know about it.
qsrweb.com

According to research by food and grocery expert IGD, 85 percent of consumer packaged goods manufacturers have either increased their investment in sustainability or kept it the same during the recession, in spite of the fact that just over two-fifths (42 percent) think the issue isn’t a high-enough area of concern for consumers.
While three-quarters (76 [...]

“Consumer commitment to green living is very stable,” Tim Kenyon, senior analyst for GfK’s consumer trends division, tells Marketing Daily. “But if products are too expensive, they will find other ways to express that commitment. They may buy fewer green products, but they’ll do things like cut their energy costs or reduce consumption.” The study [...]