What’s green about your business and what made you decide to be green?

We make every effort to incorporate green practices into our business model. In fact, our business was founded on the principles of bringing sustainability to the catering industry. Our motivation is to share valuable information with others and promote positive change.

What’s your advice to other green businesses?

Never accept compromises regarding green standards and make sure you are doing your research on products that claim to be green. It’s become a popular selling point and now larger companies are interested in incorporating it into their businesses. This is wonderful news. However, lobbying for the easing of organic standards for example, compromises the basis of true organic and sustainable practices.

For businesses that aren’t green, what suggestions do you have for them?

Protect our environment. It’s humanity’s most valuable asset, yet we have never had a tangible value placed on it. Precious resources should not be squandered or destroyed, but rather protected. It was an honest and simple choice for our company to start green and our goal is to remain steadfast throughout the life of our business.

Why did you join the Green Chamber?

We joined to help promote, expand and advance sustainable practices, and network with other like-minded companies and business leaders.

Is there anything else about Organic Chef Catering that you want Green Chamber Members to know about?

Organic Chef Catering strives to purchase only the best quality products from locally owned farms and preference is given to San Francisco-based suppliers. All of our meats, poultry and game are certified, humanely raised or caught wild. We use green-listed fish from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch fish guide. For disposable service we use 100 percent post-consumer recycled or 100 percent bio-based. The requirements for a green certified business have been used as the foundation/model of our company ( i.e. organic meats and produce, first sustainable delivery caterer with locally sourced biodiesel from used restaurant cooking oil, all office supplies are post consumer recycled, we compost-recycle-repurpose at our events and our facilities).