Carbon Friendly Dining is an environmental initiative whose objective is to help create a unique dining experience. This is done by giving restaurants and their diners the opportunity to plant-life changing GiftTrees in the developing world with their meal!​

The contribution is then used to support impoverished communities around the world through the purchase of seeds, tools, and land to plant trees plus provide an exit out of poverty.

GiftTrees are life changing fruit trees planted by Carbon Friendly Dining Certified restaurants and diners contributions, to bring countless benefits both the environment and to the developing world!

Carbon Friendly Dining is a Sustainably Run initiative that has planted over 1.7 million life-saving GiftTrees so far.​

​Counterbalancing the carbon impact of millions of meals, helping the environment, and providing communities in the developing world with an exit out of poverty.

The GiftTrees planted by Carbon Friendly Dining Certified restaurants and their diners bring countless benefits to both the environment and to the developing world!​

Supporting developing world communities:​

Feeding those in need

The GiftTrees planted by Carbon Friendly Dining Certified restaurants produce fruit that feeds families in the developing world who otherwise may go without food.​

A source of income

Surplus fruit grown from the fruit trees are sold at local markets which provides a source of income to families, as well as helping to start a new economy.​

Education for children

Families earning an income resulting from our fruit trees are able to send their children to school, to educate the next generation!​

Education on farming, tools, and infrastructure

As well as providing GiftTrees to the developing world, your contribution also helps to provide education to new farmers on the best ways to use their land, provide them with the necessary tools to maximise their yield, and put the infrastructure in place to make the tree planting sustainable.​

GiftTrees offset carbon dioxide (CO₂) from our earth’s atmosphere, and with the huge impact that our modern world is having upon our planet – we are in desperate need of a sustainable solution to counterbalance the negative effect we are having upon our planet.​

​A single GiftTree during a 40-year lifespan will sequester 1 tonne of CO₂​

That’s the equivalent amount of CO₂ emissions produced by flying from London to New York!* ​

​*co2.myclimate.org

Carbon Friendly Dining has contributed to global tree-planting efforts all around the world. We have supported projects in Africa, Asia, and the Americas too!​

​With trees planted in Burundi, Ethiopia, and Cameroon, not to mention Brazil, India, and the Philippines, Carbon Free Dining’s awesome partner restaurants and their diners are transforming lives at all corners of the planet

✅  Free restaurant marketing

✅  Free restaurant promotional videos

✅  Enhanced restaurant sustainability

✅  Epos Reward Schemes

✅  Social media marketing support

✅  More, happier customers

✅  Better online reviews

✅  Staff training and engagement

And more, all at zero cost…

Becoming a Carbon Friendly Dining Certified Restaurant is super simple, and doesn’t cost a penny!​

​Simply click the link below and complete the short form, one of our team will contact you to acknowledge your request and make sure you have everything you need for your 1st service planting GiftTrees!

Carbon Friendly Dining is branching out rapidly across the world, with more and more restaurants joining the initiative every day.

Carbon Friendly Dining has restaurant partners in the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Malta. Malaysia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, and the USA – and that list is growing!

Restaurants from any country and continent can become Carbon Friendly Dining Certified Restaurants.

For every six trees funded you’ll be rewarded a Sustainable Credit, which can be saved for discounts on Lightspeed add-ons and subscriptions, including: 

• Additional devices and licences: add another iPad ePOS to serve guests faster, or purchase additional licenses for growing your business to new locations. ​
• Lightspeed add-ons: enrich your restaurant technology with advanced Lightspeed add-ons like Order Anywhere, Lightspeed Payments and Lightspeed Delivery.  ​
• Annual plan: Upgrade your Lightspeed annual subscription free of charge.

Each contribution taken is held by the restaurant during the month. ​

The EPOS system will keep a record of the accrued contribution amounts during the month. ​

​At the end of the month, a Request for Funds (RFF) will be created and sent to the restaurant to advise the payment due. This is collected via direct debit and is for exactly the contribution amount. ​

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