GAIL's Bakery sustainability score: 34/100
Better than 52% of Food Service / Restaurants
Making progress starts at 46. The highest score on SINK is 71.
GAIL's Bakery is a London-based bakery and café chain founded in 1976, operating approximately 185 shops across the UK alongside four to five production facilities. The company specializes in sourdough, pastries, and coffee.
More about GAIL's Bakery
It is positioned as a premium neighbourhood bakery brand with recent emphasis on regenerative sourcing and waste reduction.
Founded 1976Head office London, GBStaff ~3,500Revenue ~£278MWebsite ↗
GAIL's is a rapidly expanding bakery chain with substantive supply-chain sustainability work—regenerative flour sourcing, waste minimisation, nature partnerships—but zero operational emissions disclosure and aggressive growth actively increasing its footprint. No climate targets, no renewable energy verification, no formal governance. Supply-chain efforts mask a company refusing to measure or commit to reducing its core impact.
GAIL's Bakery scores 34/100 (Below expectations) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified May 2026.
That places GAIL's Bakery joint 598th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 25th of 53 in Food Service / Restaurants.
What is GAIL's Bakery doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (7/10, 5/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Carbon Footprint: Operations (0/10, 1/10).
Where GAIL's Bakery lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling, even from energy bills or mileage.
- Emissions from its own operationsPublish emissions figures for its own operations, even an estimate from energy bills.
- Emissions from its supply chainAssess where its supply-chain emissions come from.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations1/10No emissions figures for its own operations, not even an estimate from energy bills.
- Emissions from its supply chain2/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are falling0/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is3/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
- Its effect on nature5/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste5/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets2/10No specific targets with dates.
- How openly it reports2/10No published sustainability data, or no one named as responsible for it.
- Its record on controversies7/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is GAIL's Bakery's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas GAIL's Bakery's score changed?
GAIL's Bakery's score has been reviewed 2 times and currently stands where it started, at 34.
- 34 → 347 November 2026
Correction, 7 November 2026: removed an unsourced emissions figure. Score unchanged.
- Scored 345 April 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is GAIL's Bakery's score based on?
12 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
17% of them were published by GAIL's Bakery itself; the rest come from independent sources.
Scored on 5 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.
10 of 12 sources are independent of the company.
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How does GAIL's Bakery compare with other food service / restaurants companies?
Where GAIL's Bakery sits among food service / restaurants peers.
Among the 53 major food service / restaurants brands we've scored, GAIL's Bakery is tied =25th of 53, with 1 other.
Who scores higher in Food Service / Restaurants?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above GAIL's Bakery.
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