Pho Restaurants sustainability score: 27/100
Better than 21% of Food Service / Restaurants
Below expectations starts at 31. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Pho Restaurants is a UK-based casual dining chain specializing in Vietnamese pho and Asian noodle dishes. With approximately 45–50 locations across the UK, the company generated £79.3M in revenue (FY2025) and is privately owned by TriSpan's Rising Stars investment fund.
More about Pho Restaurants
The chain operates gas-fired kitchens and serves meat-heavy and plant-based menus.
Head office London, GBStaff ~700Revenue ~£79MWebsite ↗
Pho Restaurants operates 45+ UK sites with zero emissions disclosure, no carbon targets, and no sustainability strategy whatsoever. A growing chain with significant operational and supply-chain carbon footprints has chosen complete environmental silence. No targets, no reporting, no accountability.
Pho Restaurants scores 27/100 (Significant gaps) 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 Pho Restaurants joint 815th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 40th of 53 in Food Service / Restaurants.
What is Pho Restaurants doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Energy Source (7/10, 2/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Targets & Commitments (0/10, 0/10).
Where Pho Restaurants 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.
- Its climate targetsSet emissions reduction targets.
- Emissions from its own operationsPublish emissions figures for its own operations, even an estimate from energy bills.
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 chain1/10No 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 is2/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
- Its effect on nature2/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles waste2/10No active waste reduction, reuse or repair shown.
- Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets0/10No emissions reduction targets.
- 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 Pho Restaurants's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Pho Restaurants's score changed?
Pho Restaurants's score has been reviewed 2 times and currently stands where it started, at 27.
- 27 → 277 November 2026
Correction, 7 November 2026: removed an unsourced emissions figure. Score unchanged.
- Scored 279 April 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is Pho Restaurants's score based on?
8 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
38% of them were published by Pho Restaurants itself; the rest come from independent sources.
Scored on 9 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.
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How does Pho Restaurants compare with other food service / restaurants companies?
Where Pho Restaurants sits among food service / restaurants peers.
Among the 53 major food service / restaurants brands we've scored, Pho Restaurants is tied =40th of 53, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in Food Service / Restaurants?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Pho Restaurants.
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