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Our Commitments

Faced with changes in the condition of our planet, the food, hotel and restaurant industry and its ecosystem are one of the keys to an agricultural, nutritional, ecological and social transition. Our Group has a direct impact on the environment and on the surrounding population. It is our responsibility to reduce these impacts.

Environmental challenges

The majority of our business operations are based on what nature has to offer (raw materials for construction and cooking, energy…). It is up to us to preserve it as much as possible in order to continue our operations.

The acquisition of the Domaine de Nonville brings the agricultural and hotel-restaurant worlds closer together

In 2021, Groupe Bertrand created a new activity, Domaines & Terroirs, to promote the Ile-de-France region in some of its hotels and restaurants while using agro-ecological farming methods on living soil.

Investment in forests

Groupe Bertrand owns forests in the central part of France. These forests are managed under a plan to preserve local biodiversity and to test agroforestry methods.

Bertrand Hospitality supports the agro-ecological transition of the Oé wine estate

We are continuing the adventure with Oé wines by financing the regeneration of the biodiversity of 1 ha of the new Domaine Oé, located in Vaucluse and Drôme. This financial support was provided via the Agoterra financing platform, a pioneer in financing sustainable agriculture. We can therefore say that the circle is complete because we have been serving Oé wines in our Parisian establishments for more than 2 years !

Au Bureau and Agoterra help farmers in their agro-ecological transition

Au Bureau has signed a partnership with Agoterra by supporting 9 French farmers in their transition to low-carbon, all located within 25 km of one of our pubs. This is a first step towards the agro-ecological transition, but also offsets part of the residual GHG emissions for our restaurants.

Combatting food waste

The result after 3 years of a partnership with Too Good To Go for some of our restaurants:

17 partner retail outlets

60 230 anti-waste containers saved from the trash can

150 tons of C0₂ avoided = 96 Paris-Tokyo flights

Fair compensation for French farmers through collaboration with C'est qui le Patron ?!

Following our commitment to purchasing eggs from free-range hens, Bertrand Hospitality has decided to go further by guaranteeing fair compensation for French farmers through our collaboration with C’est qui le Patron?!

C’est qui le Patron?! is a brand of fair trade products created collectively by consumers in 2016. Fair compensation for farmers, co-development, and product transparency are the key words of this fair trade approach, which now includes 30 fair trade product lines sold throughout France.

Sorting bio-waste with Les Alchimistes

We seek to support innovative and local initiatives. At Pied de Cochon (Paris 1st), Public House (Paris 9th), Vaudeville (Paris 2nd), Bofinger (Paris 12th) and in some Leon and Au Bureau restaurants , the start-up Les Alchimistes collects our organic waste and transforms it into compost for agriculture in Seine-Saint-Denis.

BURGER KING, the king of flame-grilled meat, ramps up its plant-based approach

For THE expert in flame-grilled meat, it is not easy to become the first fast-food chain to offer the most extensive plant-based product range on the market in France. And yet. A few months after launching the Veggie King, BURGER KING® France is shifting into high gear and is now offering a plant-based alternative for three of its best-sellers.

Au Bureau is committed to the Enseigne Responsable label !

Awarded at the end of 2022 by the Collectif Génération Responsable, Au Bureau has become the 37th brand in France to receive this label, which encourages transformation through an approach aligned with ISO 26000.
The label rewards our commitment throughout the year to reduce our environmental impact as well as :
🔎 Our agility and innovation for recruitment.
🔄 Structured purchasing processes and fair practices.
🌍 The pedagogy and ambition of sustainable marketing.

Social and societal challenges

The Group’s financial performance is strongly linked to its social and societal performance (policies on disability, gender equality, integration of young people and refugees, quality of life at work…). The CSR policies of our different business operations take into account all our stakeholders, whether they are our employees, our customers, our partners, associations, suppliers, hospitality management schools, etc.

Au Bureau supports Sport dans la Ville for the integration of young people

Sports and its values are an integral part of the history of Au Bureau ads. For the past 20 years, Sport dans la Ville has been supporting approximately 10,000 at-risk youth each year through sports and group coaching sessions. Au Bureau participates in a race for solidarity, Foot & Job events and job fairs in order to talk to young people about its business operations.

Hippopotamus commits to Rire Médecin

Families have always held a special place at Hippopotamus. It was therefore natural for them to support Le Rire Médecin, which has been entertaining children in hospitals every day for more than 30 years.

Groupe Bertrand participates in DuoDay

Every year, Groupe Bertrand establishments take part in DuoDay by welcoming disabled individuals for a day to help them discover our world and our businesses! In our headquarters as well as in our restaurants, our teams share our passion by training about 50 Duos each year. This day allows trainees with disabilities to experience total immersion. Some of them then join our teams, either as interns or under open-ended contracts.

Collaboration with Refugee Food

For the past 4 years, Groupe Bertrand has been working with Refugee Food to continue to change the way people view refugees, to facilitate their professional integration and to promote the world’s culinary heritage ( four-hand dishes at the Refugee Food Festival, hosting refugee interns for integration, recruiting refugees…)

Improving financial well-being of our employees

A partnership with Rosaly has been launched for several of our brands (Au Bureau, Polpo, Vaudeville, Volfoni and the headquarters). This social impact fintech allows us to digitize payroll deposits. The goal? To offer a new and practical solution to improve the autonomy and financial well-being of our employees, through the use of a free app linked to our payroll system.

Running for a good cause !

In 2023 and 2024, Groupe Bertrand participated in the 3rd edition of the Levalloisienne race, a race supporting the Alzheimer’s Research Foundation. Several employees took part in a 5km or 10km race to support this cause!

Bertrand Restauration sustainability report (in french)

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