As a café owner, you already know that sustainability is a hot topic in the coffee and beverage industry. It’s not only good for the environment, but it’s good for business as well. In fact, your customers expect it from you and they often choose both their coffee and their choice of café by who offers more sustainability.
Increase Your Environmental Awareness
With that being said, it can be challenging to be 100% environmentally responsible. After all, you have a business to run and part of running your business is ensuring the safety and quality of the food and beverages you sell. But, by using compostable coffee capsules and organic coffee capsules, you can increase your environmental awareness and show your customers that you are concerned with sustainability within the coffee industry.
Know Where Your Coffee Comes From
Another important factor of sustainability in the coffee industry is knowing where your coffee comes from and choosing vendors which offer sustainable coffee beans. This will usually ensure a better cup of coffee for your customer and boost sales in the process. Customers like sustainable brands and will go out of their way to shop with a sustainable retailer.
Reducing Food Waste
One of the most important things café owners can control is food waste. When we throw away a piece of fruit because it is not as pretty as the rest, we are not just throwing away that piece of fruit, we are throwing away the water it took to grow it and the fuel it took to transport the fruit to your café. When we look at it this way, reducing food waste becomes even more of a priority.
Ways Your Café Can Be More Sustainable
Recycle Your Garbage- use compostable coffee pods and organic coffee capsules which are often made of recycled materials and can be recycled again.
Minimise Waste- don’t make more coffee or sweets than you need as this will not only cost you money, it will also make you less sustainable.
Offer Keep Cups And Use Eco-Friendly Take Away Products- by offering your customers ‘keep cups’ instead of the standard throwaway cups, you are helping to keep the environment clean by reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. Eco-friendly take away products can reduce the risk of plastics ending up in landfills or our oceans.
Contact Novell
To learn more about the newest trends in coffee and café service and the importance of sustainability in the coffee industry, contact Novell and shop a wide selection of specialty coffees today!
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