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.

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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