Elior Group business Lexington has launched a social value led initiative bringing together health, nutrition and wellbeing.
The Mindful Kitchen will feature sustainable, wellness-focused food, collaborations with forward-thinking and environmentally conscious supply partners, and health and nutrition advice for clients of the UK contract caterer and their employees.
The initiative is designed to offer clients a portfolio of concepts led by Lexington or its socially conscious partners, to mindfully nourish people and the planet with clean, nutritional, and sustainable food choices. It gives clients a holistic view of all the concepts on offer and their benefits, meaning clients can choose what they’d like to introduce at their sites.
External partners supporting the initiative include Symplicity, a delicious, vegetable-based alternative and a pioneer in the plant-based industry; Vitalicious in collaboration with Unrooted, a range of smoothies and juices packed with seasonal vegetables, fruits and essential vitamins focused on mind and body; Wildfarmed, an end-to-end supply chain that offers a route to market for crops grown in systems that prioritise soil health.
The Mindful Kitchen also provides seasonal campaigns to support overall employee wellbeing such as dry January, vitamin deficiencies, how to improve beating the winter blues, and seasonal sleeping.
Jon Lilley, group development chef at Lexington, comments: “Wellness, CSR and ESG underpin everything we do at Lexington so it made sense to create The Mindful Kitchen to enrich our customers’ experience.
The Mindful Kitchen goes far beyond the plate. It is a holistic approach to inspiring a mindful approach to eating. We want our clients and their employees to eat better and live better.
We want our clients and their employees to eat better and live better.”
The Mindful Kitchen is being rolled out across Lexington throughout January.
