Zizzi sustainability score: 46/100
Better than 85% of Food Service / Restaurants
Leading practice starts at 60. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Zizzi is a casual dining restaurant chain operating 200+ locations across the UK, serving Italian cuisine. Owned by Azzurri Group (which also operates Ask Italian and Coco di Mama), it is a mid-market hospitality business with significant food and energy consumption footprints typical of the QSR sector.
Founded 1999Head office London, UKStaff ~6,000 (Azzurri Group total)Revenue ~£303m (Azzurri Group FY2025)Website ↗
Azzurri Group reports emissions reductions and has implemented circular economy initiatives, but lacks third-party verification of absolute figures and has critical gaps in water monitoring. Supply chain decarbonisation is underway via Foodsteps LCAs, yet no independently verified Scope 3 totals are published. Net-zero 2040 target lacks near-term interim milestones.
Zizzi scores 46/100 (Making progress) 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 Zizzi joint 258th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 7th of 53 in Food Service / Restaurants.
What is Zizzi doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Resource Use & Waste (7/10, 6/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Energy Source (2/10, 4/10).
Where Zizzi 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 waterMonitor its water use and take measures to reduce it.
- How clean its energy isShow at least half its energy is renewable, with a transition plan.
- Its effect on natureMeasure its effect on nature and have it independently verified.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations5/10No full Scope 1 and 2 figures worked out to the GHG Protocol.
- Emissions from its supply chain5/10Most of its supply-chain (Scope 3) emissions aren't measured.
- Whether its emissions are falling5/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How clean its energy is4/10Less than half its energy shown to be renewable, or no transition plan.
- Its effect on nature4/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste6/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
- Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets4/10Its targets aren't science-based or committed to the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports4/10No dedicated sustainability role, board oversight or public report.
- Its record on controversies7/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Zizzi's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Zizzi's score based on?
8 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
50% of them were published by Zizzi 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 Zizzi compare with other food service / restaurants companies?
Where Zizzi sits among food service / restaurants peers.
Among the 53 major food service / restaurants brands we've scored, Zizzi is tied =7th of 53, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in Food Service / Restaurants?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Zizzi.
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See the breakdown →Azzurri Group has built genuine operational emissions reductions and circular initiatives—food waste biogas loops, regenerative flour sourcing, packaging redesigns—but lacks the absolute figures, third-party verification, and science-aligned targets needed for credibility.
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