“Green” Fine Dining Restaurants

Abstract

Food and beverage businesses have recently started to use sustainable practices. The “green restaurant” is an eco-label that restaurants receive as a result of these practices. Today, almost any type of restaurant can become a green restaurant. This study examines the processes of fine dining restaurants to become “green restaurants” and to determine which criteria are prominent in them. The study revealed that fine dining “green restaurants” received fewer points in the transparency and education and building categories in the process of becoming green restaurants.