peter pane
Lübeck (ots)
The catering industry is facing major challenges. Lack of staff and always new wishes from guests in the direction of sustainability that want to be addressed. A pioneer who courageously faces these challenges in a rapidly changing market is Peter Pane with his 2,000 employees, who has become a premium burger favorite with almost 50 restaurants in Germany. In contrast to other restaurants, the company is always taking new steps towards sustainability and simply trying out what other competitors don’t dare to do – just like Peter in Neverland.
“From now on, almost exclusively green electricity will flow at Peter Pane!” explains Patrick Junge, founder and managing director of the burger chain, which operates under Paniceus Gastro Systemzentrale GmbH. “We are proud that we were able to connect most of the locations to it as of February 1, 2023. Anyone who now enjoys a burger at Peter Pane can do so with an even better conscience in the future. We are thus taking another important step on the exciting path towards sustainability,” he adds. Guests can identify the locations through which the green electricity from renewable energies flows by a sticker on the front door.
But the company has something to show for more than just the energy transition: loyal and motivated employees, uninterrupted popularity of the locations among guests and outstanding quality show: Peter Pane flies purposefully with the zeitgeist and provides proof that delicious food, sustainable action and a prudent cooperation go well together.
More than green electricity – Patrick Junge has big plans
“We are currently in the process of setting up our own Peter Pane program in order not only to use green electricity, but also to waste as little energy as possible. We are therefore training clever minds at our locations to take on the role of “Climate Change Officer” in the individual restaurants. Peter Pane is also about working together. We want to do things right from within ourselves and tackle them with determination. This has several advantages: on the one hand, we raise awareness of the energy consumption in the individual restaurants, on the other We provide others with in-depth background knowledge. The sum of many small steps across all locations will make the big difference,” Junge explains his ambitious plans.
“I think we all have to realize that simple things like installing motion detectors, switching to LED lamps and also supposedly succinct things like regularly changing filters in extraction systems add up to a lot. And that’s exactly where we start we are starting this program and want to create incentives so that the individual companies can participate in the best possible way. The best way to do this is to trust our team and give them even more responsibility. For example, we are thinking about small competitions that distinguish the locations and colleagues, that have achieved the greatest energy savings. In this way, we also strengthen the employees’ pride in our company,” says Patrick Junge, summing up his forward-looking idea.
Sustainable into the future with vegan and vegetarian burgers
At Peter Pane, not only the energy transition is on the agenda. “We understood what the guests and the planet want from us. That’s why 55% of our food is now vegan or vegetarian, which is very well received. But that’s not enough for us. We are in the middle of a transition phase. I believe that Businesses can no longer just take from nature. We must do everything we can to set an example with our actions and to live up to our function as role models. I am also talking about other mega-topics here, such as the maximum reduction in the throw-away rate, the purchase of regional products or the complete renunciation of combustion engines in the delivery business. It should be a matter of course for entrepreneurs to give something back to the planet,” summarizes Patrick Junge, who believes that we are making the world a slightly better place for all of us can if we want to.
Eat good, do good – In March the campaign “ISS-DAS-GRÜN” starts for the 3rd time
For the third time Peter Pane will implement his own reforestation program this year – not somewhere in the world with acquired climate certificates, but on his own doorstep, right in Germany, more precisely on his own land in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. “With our campaign this year, we plan to reach the result of 150,000 tree plantings from 2022, if not even to exceed it. Always giving a little more and constantly improving – that is our claim. Our trees should live 100 years stand still! It’s best if it’s longer,” Junge smiles proudly. “We can’t show that in our carbon footprint, but that’s not what we’re about. We just believe that giving something back to Mother Nature is the right thing to do,” the managing director continues. As part of the “ISS-DAS-GRÜN” campaign, every customer who orders a vegan or vegetarian burger from Peter Pane ensures that a tree is planted. Pleasure for the climate.
With the switch to green electricity, Peter Pane has taken a fundamentally important step into the future and encourages that gastronomy can also make an important contribution to changing consumption habits and exploiting savings potential. There’s no such thing as impossible for the courageous Peter Pane.
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