Coffee and food

Enjoy with a clear conscience

For Swiss Post, sustainable, balanced and fair catering for staff is important: seasonal, regional and vegetarian food is on the menu. Only Fairtrade coffee is served.

Since 2010, Fairtrade coffee has been available in Swiss Post's staff restaurants, and since spring 2015 now also at the vending machines in the catering areas. “For us, it's important that farmers receive a fair wage for growing the coffee beans – and this is our small contribution to a more socially equitable world,” explains Hugo Alchenberger, Head of Partner Management. And this contribution is in fact not that small: around 3.3 million cups of coffee are consumed at Swiss Post every year, equivalent to about 30 tonnes of coffee beans – for which a fair price is paid. A wide and growing range of Fairtrade quality fruit, sugar and snacks is also on offer.

Climate-friendly food

Together with food services partner SV Group and in collaboration with the WWF, Swiss Post started implementation of the “ONE TWO WE” climate protection programme at 18 locations in January 2015. This will produce a step-by-step reduction in the CO₂ emissions that result from staff catering. With approximately one million meals a year, these emissions are not insignificant. The starting point for the programme was an energy consultation at each site. One of the measures implemented is to offer an additional vegetarian menu once a week, because meat production has a much greater impact on the climate than the cultivation of seasonal vegetables.