AmRest

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates, including Bulgarian Food and Restaurant Association, Croatian Chamber of Economics, International Facility Management Association, and American Chamber of Commerce.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment through policies and activities related to reducing plastic use and transitioning to sustainable packaging. For instance, it discloses that it banned straws and cutlery in all restaurants operating in EU markets, it implements sustainable packaging solutions for its brands, and it has switched to recyclable paper bags and recyclable plastic for its shake cups.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company states that an executive-level body is responsible for its global tax strategy. It also provides information about income tax payments across all tax jurisdictions. Additionally, the company has a policy against bribery and corruption and publicly commits to safeguarding personal data. Furthermore, the company clarifies that it refrains from making any political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses that 24% of its total direct operations workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreements and discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category. Furthermore, the company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights along with a grievance mechanism accessible to all workers.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by assigning decision-making and oversight responsibility to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets and objectives. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process and the outcome of the process. Furthermore, it could disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company discloses its scope 1 and 2 emissions compared to the previous year, with an increase in scope 2 emissions. It has an opportunity to set time-bound targets for reducing scope 1 and 2 emissions, report progress, and align these targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Similarly, there’s an opportunity to reduce scope 3 emissions by establishing time-bound reduction targets, reporting progress, and aligning them with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to set animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Ecosystem conversion
While the company states that it sources 100% RSPO-certified palm oil since 2022, it has the opportunity to disclose activities and time-bound targets aimed at achieving conversion-free supply chains.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its FLW reduction targets, report progress against these targets, and align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which targets a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to set a sales-based target to increase alternative proteins across its portfolio, and report progress against this target.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, and report progress against them.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and establish an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Forced labour
The company has the opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain. Specifically, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, the retention of workers’ personal documents, and the restriction of workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment against bribery and corruption, include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Furthermore, it could establish a process to address issues related to bribery and corruption, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholder to file related complaints. Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical practices by disclosing its approach to lobbying and political engagement, and transparently disclosing lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to the health and safety of its operations and supply chain workers through a public policy statement and provide evidence of monitoring supplier compliance. Additionally, it could set time-bound targets for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the methodology for determining a living wage, and disclose strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets, including the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.