Ecos and Coca-Cola partner to bring sustainability to restaurants

The Ecos Business Solutions division and Green Marketing team recently partnered with Coca-Cola to assist the beverage company with reaching out to its foodservice customers to encourage more sustainable business practices.

 

The effort included creating an online Sustainability Resource Center that is hosted on Coca-Cola’s customer partner site, cokesolutions.com. Ecos provided Coca-Cola and its customers with no-cost/low-cost solutions for becoming more sustainable, as well as educational resources and an online assessment tool. Ecos will also offer restaurant customers three tiers of services — ranging from education and benchmarking to full audits and multi-year action plans — designed to make operations more sustainable in the areas of energy, water, packaging and facilities. Ecos Marketing supported Coca-Cola’s sales efforts by creating educational PowerPoint presentations, brochures and handouts for sales meetings with customers.

These efforts emerged from work that Ecos and Coca-Cola did for Burgerville Restaurants in 2008, in which Ecos conducted a full Tier 3 assessment of the Northwest restaurant chain’s energy and water use. Ecos recently completed production of a video “success story” about the work that was done and the savings realized by Burgerville. Click here to watch the results.