Sustainability Summary

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CHEFSQUARE/ATELIER DES SENS Sustainability Profile

Sustainability Summary

This is an unclaimed profile. CHEFSQUARE/ATELIER DES SENS has not joined Sustainability Tracker to verify their sustainability credentials. We gathered what we could from public sources.

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Chefsquare/Atelier des Sens is a cooking school based in Île-de-France, operating in Paris and Lyon. Since 2004, it has offered cooking and pastry workshops with a stated low environmental impact, and it has developed a sustainability approach around seasonal and organic sourcing, short supply chains, waste reduction, and food-waste recovery. The company became a société à mission in 2022 and was certified B Corp in September 2023. Its sustainability work also includes inclusive menus, vegetarian and plant-based classes, and training and awareness-raising on sustainable food and responsible cooking.

About CHEFSQUARE/ATELIER DES SENS

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Unverified

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Employees
5 - 25

Country
France

CHEFSQUARE/ATELIER DES SENS Sustainability Actions

Became a B Corp

Chefsquare is now a certified B Corp™. With a score of 99.6, it joined the community of certified B Corps in November 2023. The company said the certification marked a new phase in its engaged approach and that it had already become a société à mission in 2022, inscribing social and environmental objectives in its statutes.

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Became a société à mission

En 2022, Chefsquare became a société à mission, inscribing social and environmental objectives in its statutes. The company said this was part of a long-standing commitment to ecological and social issues in the development of the business.

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Received Ecotable labels

Chefsquare was audited on Impact by Écotable in 2021 and 2022. Chefsquare Bastille received its first Écotable macaron in 2021 and a second in 2022. Chefsquare Lyon and Beaubourg also obtained Écotable labelling in 2021.

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Used seasonal organic products

Chefsquare said it chooses products of season from organic agriculture, prioritises short supply chains with local producers, and uses seasonal menus that evolve with arrivals and seasonality. It also said its fruit and vegetables are organic and seasonal, and that its meat is 100% French.

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Reduced waste and biowaste

Chefsquare said it carries out careful waste sorting and values biowaste. It also said it created a compost to revalorise organic waste, suppressed aluminium coffee capsules and plastic cups, and works to reduce food waste by ordering as close as possible to needs.

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CHEFSQUARE/ATELIER DES SENS Sustainability Commitments

2026

Reduce carbon emissions

Chefsquare said it is working to diminish its carbon emissions further as part of a process of continuous improvement.

2026

Expand work with La Tablée

Chefsquare said it is developing a partnership with La Tablée des Chefs to set up culinary education workshops for young people aged 12 to 18 living in care homes and in schools in priority education zones.

2026

Continue improvement cycle

Chefsquare said that in three years, when it is audited again, it wants to have genuinely progressed in the delivery of its commitments, otherwise its B Corp certification could be withdrawn.