Case Study: Chartwells Higher Education drives sustainable menu innovation with HowGood

Chartwells Higher Education boosts positive menu ratings to 44% with HowGood

Chartwells Higher Education, a food service provider for over 300 colleges and universities, partnered with HowGood to measure and improve the sustainability of its menu offerings. The challenge was to provide students with transparent information about the environmental and social impact of their food choices and to innovate recipes to meet campus sustainability goals.

Using HowGood's SaaS sustainability intelligence platform and its Latis digital tool, Chartwells gained ingredient-level insights to develop recipes with a lower environmental impact. The solution included adding HowGood's climate labels to dining hall menus. This led to a 37% increase in the production of positively rated recipes and a significant improvement in the proportion of menued recipes receiving a positive score, rising from less than a third to 44% in one year. HowGood's tools empowered Chartwells to make data-driven decisions that support carbon reduction goals.

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