Cutting carbon

EARLIER THIS YEAR HILTON introduced carbon labelling to menus across some 30 hotels in the UK, and recently unveiled additional low-carbon options. Hilton has worked with Klimato to develop menus and label dishes as low, medium or high impact based on the carbon footprint per serving, with almost half of the dishes served at participating hotels identified as “low impact”. Initial findings suggest that guests are making more informed choices. This has led to the addition of more low- and medium-labelled dishes in the autumn menu, with these items making up over 85 per cent of the menu. A three-course meal, consisting of gochujang cauliflower wings for starter, butternut squash risotto or a fish finger sandwich for main and salted caramel affogato for dessert, results in a total of 1.2 kg CO2e. According…

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