Our first 100% vegetarian restaurant
The doors of our very first 100% vegetarian restaurant have opened at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology. The menu is fully vegetarian, meaning it’s the first university restaurant in the Netherlands to stop selling meat.
Our product managers and chefs have worked hard to develop a delicious vegetarian menu and we think they’ve succeeded! Many different flavour sensations are on offer and all without meat and fish. We’ve explored alternative plant-based products such as pulled oats, jackfruit, vegetarian meat substitutes, vegan bread and vegan cheese and used them to create novel and delicious dishes.
No longer offering meat means we are halving our food-related emissions at the faculty, and we are also looking at other ways to become more sustainable, for example by making changes to the food packaging and cutlery. We are also implementing a storytelling strategy with sustainability at its core.
We are proud and happy to be reopening with this new veggie range and to see our CIRFOODIES team beaming again as we welcome the first guests.
Let’s feed the future!
Facts and figures
Not eating meat saves on average per week:
· 101 litres of water
· 79 kilometres of driving
· 770 grams of animal meat
Replacing meat with vegetarian protein sources such as nuts, seeds, beans and lentils means we can reduce carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions.
Growing food for a vegetarian diet requires two-and-a-half times less land than a meat-based diet.
A vegetarian diet uses less water. Much less water is needed to produce plant proteins than meat. To produce a 250-gram chicken breast, you need more than 542 litres of water. That’s enough to fill your bathtub 4.5 times.
