our philosophy is to provide high quality at low cost so that everyone can afford to enjoy chantek. we try to balance price with the quality of the ingredients so that we can offer excellence and value to our customers.
applying environmental changes in a business is often a real struggle - just keeping things running is difficult enough without the extra cost and time to make changes! however, the environment is a major theme for all of us and here at chantek we are trying to join in the task before us. these are some of the initiatives that we have taken to help promote energy-saving, less environmental damage and more well-being for our local & global community. and we plan on adding to these initiatives in the forthcoming year!
we are implementing a 'paperless office' and insisting that all our suppliers send electronic invoices and information, saving paper, ink, transport etc. incredible that 15 years ago we were told about this new paperless 'reality' and yet so many businesses just don't want to even think about it!
last year, we did an energy audit of chantek and since then we have implemented a number of simple but very effective changes which have seen a 25% fall in energy usage. we buy from local suppliers and support fair-trade and organic produce wherever we can.
we use local seasonal produce in our daily specials menus, for example, asparagus stir fry and mussels in tom kha soup. we have updated our main a la carte menu and have added local pollack and scallops.
all our kitchen oil is recycled. In order to improve business & restaurant recycling, we are approaching fellow restauranteurs in cornwall to create a restaurant waste recycling lobby for cornwall. we are not able to recycle our waste at the moment as it is illegal to use the public recycling areas if you are a business. the council only collect waste for recycling every fortnight and, of course, which restaurant do you know that has a warehouse out the back to store their recycled waste for 2 weeks?! in the meantime, please let us know if you have a garage we could use!
the owners of chantek have worked for many years with grass roots humanitarian projects around the world. for many years, chantek has been directly supporting a project in Sri Lanka that was set up by antonio carvallo, one of the owners. we are planning a website to help support it as well as funding events to enable its continuation. it has been put in serious jeopardy by the current chaos on the island and their activities have all but ground to a halt.
we use local seasonal produce in our daily specials menus, for example, asparagus stir fry and mussels in tom kha soup. we have updated our main a la carte menu and have added local pollack and scallops.
all our kitchen oil is recycled. In order to improve business & restaurant recycling, we are approaching fellow restauranteurs in cornwall to create a restaurant waste recycling lobby for cornwall. we are not able to recycle our waste at the moment as it is illegal to use the public recycling areas if you are a business. the council only collect waste for recycling every fortnight and, of course, which restaurant do you know that has a warehouse out the back to store their recycled waste for 2 weeks?! in the meantime, please let us know if you have a garage we could use!
the owners of chantek have worked for many years with grass roots humanitarian projects around the world. for many years, chantek has been directly supporting a project in Sri Lanka that was set up by antonio carvallo, one of the owners. we are planning a website to help support it as well as funding events to enable its continuation. it has been put in serious jeopardy by the current chaos on the island and their activities have all but ground to a halt.
we will keep you updated on progress in all these areas in our chantek newsletter, subscribe here.
