We want our customers to have the freshest food possible, so we dont carry over into the next day our sandwiches, savouries and some of our confectionery. We try to make sure there is enough food available for our customers right up until closing time, whilst at the same time we dont bake too many savouries or make up too many sandwiches later in the day, to keep the amount of unsold food as low as possible. Where food that we cant carry over is not sold, we have different arrangements across our shops:
- A number of our shops have partnerships with local charities such as hostels and homeless shelters who collect our unsold food at the end of each day.
- We have a partnership with an organisation called FareShare who collect unsold food sent from our shops back to our bakeries and distribute it on our behalf to disadvantaged people.
- Where the technology is available, we send unsold food for anaerobic digestion, which is a new technology that converts food into an energy supply. This is something we are pursuing increasingly.
- Some of our unsold food is sent for composting.
- Almost all our unsold food is diverted AWAY from landfill.
We would very much welcome any registered charities to get in touch with us should they have a need for our surplus food and if they are able to collect it direct from their nearest Greggs shop, Please fill in the form here >
https://www.greggsfoundation.org.uk/food-waste-donations