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Sausage and bacon banned by Scandinavian hotel group
One of Scandinavia’s biggest hotel chains has announced that it is swapping bacon and sausage for a healthful, sustainable, plant-based breakfast.
Petter Stordalen, an environmentalist and the billionaire owner of the Nordic Choice Hotel Group , decided to test more healthy, sustainable breakfasts at the hotels at the urging of his wife, who is a doctor and an environmental advocate.
"This is a new breakfast concept for our Comfort hotels," Petter Stordalen said. "The focus on sustainability permeates what we do in Nordic Choice."
The hotel chain has not only banned bacon and sausage, but also any ingredients that include palm oil, the production of which is harmful to the rainforests.
The hotels are promoting a new, healthy, sustainable menu, with plant-based foods designed to give guests a healthy way to start the day. Guests’ reactions have been mixed.
Press officer Kenneth Hultgren said the healthful breakfasts were still being tested, and the chain would decide whether to keep going, abandon the project, or extend it to the hotel group’s other chains in the coming months.
"We want to challenge and break down many of the traditional conventions around hotels," he said. "When guests check out of our hotel they will feel that we have helped them to make good and healthy choices, that our food has been tasty and healthy."
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