May 16, 2018 Sustainability

Keeping it Green in King of Prussia

Founding Farmers King of Prussia just received our 3 Star Certification from the Green Restaurant Association for our daily work to implement and maintain earth-friendly restaurant operations.

Because operating sustainably is a critical mission across our company, all of our restaurants go through the Green Restaurant Association certification program. At Founding Farmers KOP, we implemented 65 environmental steps and achieved 206.14

GreenPoints™, which can be seen in their detailed evaluation. To achieve a 3 Star Green Restaurant certification, we earn points across seven environmental categories, including food, water, energy, waste, disposables, furnishings and building, chemicals and pollution.

Farmers Restaurant Group sees these certifications as our baseline, and we are striving to operate more sustainably in everything we do, including our food purchasing practices that work to unbundle the industrial food chain and to make everything we can from scratch using sources we know and trust. The water-filtering program we have had in place since we opened keeps plastic bottles out of our restaurants and reduces the number in landfills. We also recently adopted a new straw program that only uses drinking straws when requested or necessary, and then, only uses biodegradable paper straws. These are just a few of the ways we are working to do more good and less harm, every day.

At Founding Farmers KOP, since our initial evaluation from the Green Restaurant Association, we have added something none of our other restaurants have had yet, what we affectionately refer to as our Pig: a BioHiTech eco-safe digester that naturally breaks down food waste into liquid form, dramatically reducing the amount of waste we send to landfills. We are certain to earn additional GreenPoints™ once the Green Restaurant Association shines their earth-friendly eyes on our amazing Pig.

At Farmers Restaurant Group, we know our mission makes an impact. And we also know that we need outside experts to help us as we build and operate our green restaurants. Working with consultants, such as the Green Restaurant Association, ensures that we are doing all that we can to preserve the earth today, and help us look toward more sustainable practices in the future.

To understand the precise ways we earn our rating for each restaurant, go to:

Farmers & Distillers GRA

Founding Farmers DC GRA

Founding Farmers Tysons GRA

MoCo’s Founding Farmers GRA

Founding Farmers Reston Station GRA

Farmers Fishers Bakers GRA

The Green Restaurant Association is a non-profit organization whose mission is to create an environmentally sustainable restaurant industry. GRA evaluates participating restaurants every year using transparent, evidence-based certification standards. Restaurants are awarded based on the percentage of items that meet each criterion.

March 12, 2024
Food, Sustainability

Founding Farmers and J.Q. Dickinson’s Earth-Friendly Partnership

At Founding Farmers, our commitment to sustainability is ingrained in every aspect of our company, including our sourcing decisions… all the way down to the hand-harvested salt on our tables.  Our partnership with J.Q.

March 7, 2024
Events, Food

Order Easter To Go This Year

Looking for Easter Eats & Treats? Celebrate Easter Weekend with us at home and in our restaurants with brunch, lunch, and dinner.  View Our 2024 Easter At Home menu Order by: Monday, March 25 at 12pm – Ordering for 2024 Easter at Home is now closedPick up: Saturday, March 30 Available at most of our Founding Farmers locations, including our Washington, DC Chinatown and Georgetown, Potomac, MD, Reston Station, VA, Tysons, VA, and King of Prussia, PA locations.

February 27, 2024
Events, Food

Enjoy King of Prussia Restaurant Week at Founding Farmers KOP

Great news for our King of Prussia neighbors: Restaurant Week is March 4–15.  If you have never tried Founding Farmers King of Prussia, Restaurant Week is a great opportunity. Even if you have, King of Prussia’s Restaurant Week is a great time to join us for a great deal and try something new on our menus. 

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