Low Waste and Plant-Based Menus

Food sustainability challenges our food production systems and dietary choices. So at NYP’s student-run restaurant L’Rez, our students rethink how they can infuse high-quality, sustainability-themed food for their customers.

Published on 30 Oct 2024
School of Business Management
Sustainability
Students preparing Vietnamese spring rolls using sustainable ingredients

Students at the L'Rez restaurant preparing a Vietnamese-inspired fresh spring roll using ingredients like vegetables and sustainability-sourced prawns.

Our students from the Diploma in Food & Beverage Management learn about food sustainability and how to apply it to the dishes they serve up in L’Rez, a student-run restaurant.

 

At L’Rez, students learn about low-waste menus, plant-based proteins, vegetable dishes and sharing platters. They also understand other emerging trends in food sustainability.

 

Says Year Three Diploma in Food & Beverage Management student Chloe Huang:

“We use sustainability-sourced prawns and squid and locally-sourced fish like sea bass. Nothing is wasted too: even the carrot peelings go into our vegetable stock. I also learnt about plant-based food, as well as plant-forward food, which emphasises on vegetables and grains like buckwheat, barley and quinoa.”

In fact, our School of Business Management worked with Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) to develop sustainability-themed food. For example, in Jun 2023, they used two plant-based products using UFS’ ‘The Vegetarian Butcher’ range of plant-based products to create dishes like Oriental ‘Chicken’ Salad, using soy-based chunks, and Zha Jiang Mian, using plant-based minced meat. 

 

For Chloe, she aspires to either become a chef, or work in the healthcare sector to develop dishes of nutritional value. “Sustainability-themed food, especially plant-based food, is a big trend for the food industry. What I’m learning now will definitely help my career in future,” she says.

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Year Three student Chloe Huang feels that learning about sustainability-themed food can help her career in future.

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