You may know that Butler’s Pantry has moved its offices from The Hill to Lafayette Square. What you don’t know is that with this change in location comes a change in the culture here at Butler’s Pantry. Since the move we have tried to lessen our footprint on the environment. We have incorporated green thinking into our new facility.
Location – with our new space we are much closer to downtown St. Louis. We can easily access clients in the city without having to create as much emissions. In conjunction with this, we have also purchased a Chevy HHR as our Butler’s Boardroom delivery vehicle. This fuel efficient vehicle replaced a much larger &much less efficient delivery van. The HHR gets twice the MPG than our previous vehicle. A second benefit to being down town is that is allows many of our employees to take public transportation, or even bike to work.
Waste – since moving to our new commissary we have taken an increased initiative with recycling. We use a single-stream system that has reduced our quantity of trash by 25%. This ethos translates to our catered events as well. Our service staff has started recycling at our off-premise events whenever possible. We bring back the recyclable items to our site and add them into our system. Butler’s Pantry has also reduced our usage of paper products by 25% since the move. We use china, glassware & silverware for all employee meals and snacks eaten in house. We have also done away with Styrofoam products at our River City Café in the University Club Towers, and are well on our way to eliminating them from all Butler’s Pantry related services. Soon our Butler’s Boardroom products will be 100% recyclable as well.
Energy – building a new facility from the ground up allowed us to streamline our processes. We have installed a new line of dish washing machines that save up to 75% of detergent, 30% of water and 30% of energy. These new machines use a heat pump and Energy Saving Devise (ESD) to pre-heat the water before it enters the boiler & and Autostart function to ensure that no energy is consumed while the unit is in stand-by.
Just Plain Green – The staff at Butler’s Pantry has done away with bottled water & office water coolers. We use in-house purifiers to treat the office drinking water. This water is also used in making coffee and other catering products. For catered events we have also gone to a new eco-friendly chafing fuel product. This green fuel is made from corn-based ethanol and housed in recyclable steel cans. The fuel itself is biodegradable and does not contain any toxic, poisonous, methanol based components.
Here at Butler’s Pantry we are dedicated to helping our environment thrive.