Foodie Fridays: Restaurant Beatrice is now B Corp Certified; upcoming dining events
Restaurant Beatrice is queer- and woman-owned and now marks a first for Texas restaurants. (Courtesy photo) Foodie Fridays is serving up the dish on restaurant and food news, trends, events and specials. Restaurant Beatrice announces its new certification which is also a first for Texas On Thursday, Restaurant Beatrice announced that after a three-year journey, the eatery will be the first restaurant based in Texas to be B Corp Certified and one of just six full-service restaurants based the United States to attain full certification.
OK, so what does that mean? The restaurant explains: A Certified B Corp is a for-profit corporation that has been certified by B Lab, which is a nonprofit company that measures a company’s social and environmental performance against global standards found in their B Impact Assessment.
B Lab’s goal is to build “a global community of Certified B Corporations who meet the highest standards of verified, overall social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability.” B Lab’s certification process requires several levels of audits from different analysts and often adjusting of operations to meet these environmental, community, and governance parameters.
The process uncovers every corner of business from financial records, employment practices, the community the business is located in, the quality of engagement with this community, and it requires data tracking.
