From its menu to its partnership with a microfinance charity, this Bristol cafe chain has ethics at its core
For the third year in four, our Ethical Award winner comes from the Bristol area. Friska is a friendly eat-in or takeaway chain aimed at office workers and with a global menu: think chorizo hash for breakfast, pho for lunch, or a Moroccan chicken sandwich to go.
Founded five years ago by economics graduates Griff Holland and Ed Brown, Friska has had ethical principles from the start even though that can be a challenge in a chain that now has 45 employees. We change our menu seasonally with a view to being locally sourced, but we cant guarantee it when youre planning a menu three months in advance, says Holland. We inevitably create waste from packaging, but we have zero waste to landfill. Our electricity is 100% renewable. Every time we build a store toilet, we build one with Christian Aid in a developing country.
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