Toby Carvery sustainability score: 40/100
Better than 67% of Food Service / Restaurants
Making progress starts at 46. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Toby Carvery is a British carvery restaurant chain serving roast meat (beef, pork, chicken, turkey) across 153+ sites. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Birmingham, it is owned by Mitchells & Butlers plc, a major hospitality group.
More about Toby Carvery
The brand is positioned in the casual dining sector with a traditional family-oriented market.
Founded 1976Head office Birmingham, United KingdomStaff ~44,000 (Mitchells & Butlers group; Toby Carvery operates ~153 sites within the estate of ~1,726)Revenue ~£2,610M (Mitchells & Butlers FY2024 group revenue; Toby Carvery is one brand within the group)Website ↗
Toby Carvery's parent company M&B has SBTi-validated net zero targets and renewable electricity across its estate, but brand-level data is absent and supply chain emissions remain unquantified. The April 2025 illegal felling of a 500-year-old protected oak tree in Enfield—confirmed alive by Forestry Commission investigators—exposes failures in environmental governance and site management. Water strategy is missing entirely.
Toby Carvery scores 40/100 (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 Toby Carvery joint 421st of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 16th of 53 in Food Service / Restaurants.
What is Toby Carvery doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Energy Source and Targets & Commitments (6/10, 6/10). Weakest on Nature & Biodiversity Impact and Water Impact (2/10, 2/10).
Where Toby Carvery 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
- Its effect on natureAssess its effect on nature and publish a basic environmental policy.
- Its effect on waterMonitor its water use and take measures to reduce it.
- Emissions from its supply chainAssess where its supply-chain emissions come from.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations4/10No full Scope 1 and 2 figures worked out to the GHG Protocol.
- Emissions from its supply chain3/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are falling4/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How clean its energy is6/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature2/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- 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 targets6/10No validated long-term net zero target.
- How openly it reports5/10No dedicated sustainability role, board oversight or public report.
- Its record on controversies4/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Toby Carvery's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Toby Carvery's score based on?
12 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
58% of them were published by Toby Carvery 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 Toby Carvery compare with other food service / restaurants companies?
Where Toby Carvery sits among food service / restaurants peers.
Among the 53 major food service / restaurants brands we've scored, Toby Carvery is tied =16th of 53, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in Food Service / Restaurants?
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