Another new organic market seems to have come from the Portland Catering
industry and that is organic Catering. The first organization for
green Catering has recently been started in NW Oregon zeroing in on
making more people know about the benefits of green catering. They
want to get the word out that it is not just about organic food but
entails much more.
First thing we need to define is what sustainability is. Coming from
the World Commission on Environment and Development is the best known
definition of sustainability. This suggests that sustainability is
defined as "��forms of progress that meet the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
needs."�� Hey, I"��m all for that, it"��s so important to take care of
our future generations, our children, our grandchildren and our
grandchildren"��s children. But according to some caterers in Portland,
organic catering is much more and believes that it has 3 primary
facets. They are people, planet and profit.
These three things are what encompass sustainability. People. How can
catering companies be green with out the support of its employee"��s?
The owner can mandate that the leftovers be saved for compost or turn
the lights off, but if the employee"��s are not motivated or care then
it won"��t work. They have to care too, and that comes down to
educating them about the benefits of being green, and that leads into
our second facet, planet. Do your people care about taking care of our
planet? Do they know and care about the implications that pertain to
keeping the planet healthy. Both of these tie into each other in more
than one way and both link to the last one and that is profit.
Those that care about being sustainable are going to enjoy an increase
in profits from several different angles. The first one would be that
the savings in energy and waste would benefit the catering company. The
second and most important one is the fact that the catering business is
a "��green Catering Company"�� and can advertise that way and reap the
benefits of the ever increasing market.
We all know that with the harsh economy more and more people are trying
to make things work and one way that many of them are doing that is by
going green and growing their own gardens. This type of mentality
contributes to the love of going organic and boosts any organic Catering
company, even the Caterers in Portland Oregon.