Taking charge of our actions for the importance of "Mother Earth"

 

 

Local Economy Support

We invest a huge amount of time to ensure we source quality ingredients, at a fair price, from local suppliers. We buy Fairtrade or fairly traded products so producers in developing communities are not disadvantaged. All of our chickens come from happy environments and our menus are created and changed to follow the British fruit and vegetable season.

• Meat – Local butcher, William Rose, supplies British meat
• Fish – Local fishmonger Billingsgate buying fish from sustainable sources caught using low impact fishing methods.
• Fruit & Veg – Supplier sourcing from British farms wherever possible.
The produce used in our methods is on average 92% fresh and 8% frozen.

Our Environmental Ambition

Whilst acknowledging that the operational activities have an impact on the environment, Easy Gourmet’s Policy provides a framework for developing and reviewing environmental objectives and targets.

Team Awareness

Where possible, we recruit our employees by word of mouth, thereby ensuring that we retain local employees for local work placements and remove un-necessary travelling on the part of our employees

We recycle all of our company mobile phones and comply with the WEEE Regulations when disposing of all other electrical and electronic equipment.

We constantly investigate locally produced seasonal product listing across the range of our suppliers and actively promote the use of these seasonal products to clients where practicable.

Waste Management

We do not print or post marketing brochures and only send marketing material, contracts electronically. We only communicate with our customers by e-mail and we issue invoices electronically. We have a ‘dedicated’ black on white printer that we use for draft, internal copies, re-using ‘scrap’ paper, with print settings set on low resolution quality.

All of our food wastage is collected for compost purposes turning it into a valuable fertiliser.

Environmental Training

Easy Gourmet Catering have an extensive induction and training programme for all employees and continually monitor employees activities and provide additional training wherever necessary

We will ensure that all operational staff are aware of their responsibilities under the legislation and a system is established to carry out random audits and inspections to secure compliance.

Eco Friendly Disposables

If there is a need for disposables with our clients, we only provide compostable disposables Vegware or similar.

Material Guidelines

Upon completion of any activities on client’s sites we dispose of all wastes in accordance with environmental guidelines and those practices as laid down by our clients all wastes are correctly managed under our Duty of Care and any additional regulatory requirement and disposed of in the appropriate manner.

We hire crockery and cutlery from selected suppliers and these are delivered direct to our clients’ events – thus reducing the company’s environmental impact of transporting, washing and disposal. The food platters are manufactured from recycled materials and are ultimately disposed of as a recyclable waste.

All of our cardboard packaging is segregated and disposed of in a recycling facility. Material usage is monitored and employees are trained to use minimum quantities of materials such as cling film wrap.

We are constantly investigating new opportunities available to segregate our own site wastes for re-use or recycling to ensure that minimal volumes of waste are disposed of in landfill.

Our Care for Energy Preservation

We have a policy to keep lights turned off whilst there is adequate daylight available for our operational procedures and have a ‘turn off’ policy, where all equipment not in use is switched off. Where practicable, multi batten fluorescent lights have alternating tubes isolated to reduce energy consumption.

Heating systems are not used on the site, sufficient heat is provided from equipment use and a portable air conditioning unit is operated only when absolutely necessary in the summer months. A washing machine is used to clean linen and staff overalls, the wash temperature being kept at the minimum required to efficiently clean the wash loads.

Water Conservancy

Water is restricted to cleaning of pots and pans and ‘domestic’ use on the premises, for washing linen and overalls as well as hand washing and sanitation purposes. Washing up is undertaken by hand on an ‘as you go’ principle but only when the sink is full of items to be cleaned. Modern toilet facilities/cisterns exist and company vehicles are taken to a local car wash – maintaining water use on site at a minimum.

Clear Air

Easy Gourmet Catering have identified transport as having the most significant environmental impact and we take great care in ensuring that it is reduced as far as practicable. Transport to and from the various clients’ sites is undertaken regularly, as such, we choose our routes carefully, to ensure that environmental considerations are considered alongside the quality of our operations.
• We ensure all staff route their journeys with the aim of saving fuel by using shortest possible routes taking into account work requirement, traffic flows and areas of heavy congestion.
• The Company utilises diesel-powered vehicles all of which are regularly serviced and maintained to ensure efficient operation and minimise any environmental impact.
• Tyre pressures are checked monthly in order to improve both the fuel consumption and the environmental efficiency.
• We ensure all drivers are trained in fuel saving techniques by controlling acceleration and braking together with overall speed control to maximise fuel usage.
• The refrigerated units on our vehicles are only used when needed to transport goods and are turned off at all other times

Easy Gourmet Catering are investigating the use of bio-diesel in our company vehicles to reduce the associated vehicle emissions and reduce our Carbon Footprint.

Our Help to Charity

Regularly and when possible we donate food leftovers from events that we cater for in the Shoreditch area to Transforming Communities Shoreditch, who use the food within their homeless programmes.

Covid-19 Update

Following the announcement of the extended lockdown, we’re all coming to realise that life will be quite different for a while. We want to send our heartfelt thanks to the many of you that are key workers who are tirelessly supporting our communities, and our fervent thoughts to all of you at this difficult time.

Our friends in the hospitality and supplier industries across the country are also working to help us all get through this. We have been inspired for the strength of our nation and also the very kind words received from a lot of our customers in recent weeks in appreciation of the unprecedented and tough times our industry is facing, and wanted to say a huge thank you for your patience and support during this challenging period.

We would also like to take this opportunity to let you know about our increased Health and Hygiene practices that Easy Gourmet is enduring, Easy Gourmet already have a 5-star food safety rating, which means that hygiene within our premises and anywhere that we operate is of the highest standard in the industry. Thwarting the spread of germs, bacteria and viruses is already built into our daily practices within the company. Nonetheless, we have taken the following increased steps to ensure these practices are extended to other areas of our company, and not just our food handlers.

We have introduced daily sanitisation through-out our office spaces including; door handles, windows work desks, chairs, telephones, and any other contact points. Our staff are placed on separate rotas to reduce the risk of spread throughout the entire staff force and in line with the health guidelines, if any of our staff are showing signs of feeling unwell; we will ask them to leave work immediately to self-isolate.

Hand washing and personal hygiene is always paramount within Easy Gourmet and we have a inflexible hygiene policy which we all observe conscientiously. All staff are now issued with hand sanitisers and we have made it mandatory for everybody to wash their hands when entering the building, after eating and toilet breaks. We have now also continued this to greeting people and accepting orders within our building.

Finally, we understand that many of our clients are concerned about their bookings with us. We would like to assure you that your payments and deposits for your event will be carried forward providing we are given sufficient notice. We are allowing all events booked in the next 6 months a postponement for a date that Easy gourmet is available within a 9 month period from your event.

For our corporate events please check out our new social distancing menu

We are collaborating with Richard House Children’s Hospice in East London, who provide care and support to children and young people who are at risk of death because of a life-limiting or life-threatening health conditions.