Our Responsibilities
We take our impact on the planet, on our crew and on the communities that we serve very seriously, listening to feedback and adapting to change in order to do the best that we can. It’s ever evolving, but here are some areas that we thought you might be interested in hearing about.
Sustainability
We’re committed to doing whatever we can to have a positive impact on our world and the people around us. We are so fortunate that so many of our pubs are surrounded by beautiful countryside, without these green spaces, our pubs wouldn’t be the same, so we feel even more of a responsibility to reduce our impact on the environment as much as possible.
To keep check on how we are doing in this area, Brunning & Price have been working with The Sustainable Restaurant Association for many years, first signing up to take the Food Made Good Standard in 2016. We earned three stars (the highest accolade) in our very first accreditation and have retained this in the years since, increasing our overall score from 70% to 83% in the 2024 award.
Animal and Farming Welfare
We ensure that the suppliers we work with stick to strict standards of animal welfare and sustainability.
Our butchers focus on quality and consistency of product, with transparency in the supply chain, offering traceability across all their range which gives us the confidence that the product we believe we are buying is the product we are receiving.
Health and Wellbeing
We believe in being respectful to everyone we work with, from our suppliers to our crew, paying a fair wage, supporting their work / life balance and mental health needs and ensuring that we offer an environment that is inclusive of all diversities.
Pubs at the heart of their communities
Our pubs sit at the heart of their communities and we feel we should give back to them where ever we can.
Each generates on average 40 jobs, from casual to full time, Front of House, Maintenance and Kitchen teams. Often the Managers live above the pub, which helps them to immerse themselves in local life. The atmosphere of the pub is driven by the crew and their customers, between them it’s them that decide what features on the menu and what is sold from behind the bar, but also what local charities they choose to support, what local green issues are important to them and what events and activities are run in the pub.
Relationships with Suppliers
As we love ‘local’ and encourage our pubs to support local breweries and distilleries – we have a lot of suppliers! The big stuff; flour, sugar, paper, printer cartridges, glasses etc we handle in HQ, working with the bigger suppliers to make sure that our pubs get the best deal and service and that our suppliers ethics match our own. But the smaller stuff, the more interesting ‘stuff’, we rely on our teams at the pubs to form these relationships.
