Electrolux is supporting Stockholm City Mission to open a social restaurant. This restaurant serves meals prepared using surplus food from Stockholm City Mission’s food bank. The project also focuses on labor integration as newly arrived immigrants and long-term unemployed will be trained in the restaurant to enable them to get a job in a professional kitchen.
The partnership with Stockholm City Mission will also provide a platform for education of Electrolux employees, consumers and the broader public on sustainable food consumption.
Societal value
- Promote more sustainable food consumption, reducing and reusing food waste.
- Empower people through labor integration.
Achievements
- 20+ recipes developed based on surplus food.
- “Taste the Waste” lunch served to 70 Electrolux employees.
- Five AIESEC volunteers created a documentary about food waste in Stockholm.
- “Zero Waste Market” raised awareness about food waste, and smoothies made from rescued fruits were served. More than 500 visitors.
- Refurbishment of the social restaurant and installation of donated Electrolux Professional appliances.
- Food Mission presentation and screening of the documentary made by AIESEC at Electrolux HQ.
Next steps
- Develop workshops on food waste for employees and the public together with a vegan chef.
- Follow up on coaching and labor integration by Stockholm City Mission in the social restaurant.
- Create a framework for skilled volunteering of Electrolux employees, in support of labor integration.
