SQUARE PLATE

Providing consumer information via print and electronic media on socially and environmentally responsible business practices in the retail food services industry, including but not limited to business practices for high standards of safety, nutrition, working conditions, community relations, food sources, and environmental resource conservation; gathering, analyzing and reporting consumers interests, demands and preferences with regards to socially and environmentally responsible business practices in the food service industry; providing an electronic database of business information regarding food service businesses meeting social and environmental performance standards; promoting, via print and electronic communication, food businesses meeting standards for social and environmental responsibility; providing information, consultation, and advice to food businesses on socially and environmentally responsible business practices

Evaluation of the services of others for the purpose of certification, namely, evaluating various food services industry businesses, including restaurants, food trucks, and caterers, for their comprehensive social and environmental performance based on objective standards for socially and environmentally responsible food business practices