Our food system has major impacts on the environment. When we start to look at the big picture, we see just how large an impact even one meal has. Because of this, our country’s appetite for plant-based foods is growing larger by the day, with one in five Americans looking to reduce their consumption of meat and other animal products in an effort to improve their own health as well as the health of our environment.
While many environmental issues have reached a global scale, they are perpetuated at an individual level. Food service companies can play a large role in mitigating, if not reversing, these harmful effects by adding more plant-based options to their menus and thereby reducing the volume of animal products prepared and sold.
We developed this Protein Sustainability Scorecard to figure out which food service companies are actually committed to their social responsibility of protecting the environment. Our survey focused on three main topics to determine how much a company is truly doing when it comes to sustainability: transparency, goals and a plan of action.
This survey was designed to gauge where the nation’s largest food service companies are currently on this issue, and we applaud the lengthy list of companies that have set targets and goals and have been publicly transparent about those.
This year, in addition to self-reporting, we have asked companies to share menu and purchasing data to verify what was reported to receive the full point value for several questions within the survey.
The 2023 results are in
The following companies are ranked from best to worst.
To see a detailed analysis of each company and to learn more about the Scorecard process, view the full report [PDF].
Rank
Company
2023 Score
2023 Grade
2022 Rank
2022 Grade
1
ISS Guckenheimer
405
A+
1
A
2
HHS, LLC.
400
A+
7
A
3
Fresh Ideas Food Service Management
380
A+
3
A
4
Metz Culinary Management
380
A+
8
A
5
Sodexo USA
380
A+
2
A
6
Elior North America
330
A
10
A
7
SouthWest Foodservice Excellence
325
A
5
A
8
Creative Dining Services
320
A
9
A
9
LPM & Affiliates, dba Epicurean Feast Cafes
320
A
26
F
10
Whitsons Culinary Group
300
B+
6
A
11
Quest Food Management Services
255
B
19
C
12
Aramark
245
B
16
C
13
Cafe Services
185
C+
4
A
14
Compass Group USA
180
C+
18
C
15
Food For Thought Enterprises, Inc.
165
C+
15
B
16
NEXDINE Hospitality
160
C+
37
F
17
Epicurean Group
150
C
12
B
18
Pomptonian Food Service
150
C
12
B
19
Parkhurst Dining
140
C
27
F
20
Prince Food Systems
125
C
24
D
21
Delaware North
115
C
21
D
22
MMI Dining
95
C
22
D
23
AVI Foodsystems
90
D+
14
B
24
Taher, Inc.
80
D+
17
C
25
Thompson Hospitality
80
D+
13
B
26
Brock & Company, Inc.
65
D+
20
C
27
Thomas Cuisine
20
D+
28
F
28
Guest Services, Inc.
15
D
20
F
29
American Dining Creations
0
F
30
F
30
Culinary Services Group
0
F
33
F
31
Food Management Group
0
F
24
F
32
Lessing's Hospitality
0
F
31
F
33
Lunchtime Solutions
0
F
36
F
34
Opaa Food Management
0
F
n/a
n/a
35
Revolution Foods
0
F
n/a
n/a
36
Sage Dining Services
0
F
n/a
n/a
37
SLA Management
0
F
38
F
38
Southern Foodservice Management
0
F
29
F
39
The Nutrition Group
0
F
40
F
Want to learn more about last year's scores? View the 2022 Report