Construction / Real Estate

Karma Kitchen sustainability score: 33/100

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About Karma Kitchen

Karma Kitchen is a UK dark kitchen operator that builds and manages shared commercial kitchen spaces for food delivery brands across London. Founded around 2018, the company operates modular kitchen facilities with built-in waste management systems, serving as infrastructure for the ghost restaurant market.

Founded 2015Head office London, GBStaff ~27Revenue Not disclosed (private startup)Website ↗

Our verdict

Karma Kitchen operates six-to-eight London dark kitchen sites with a small 27-person team. The company makes unsubstantiated claims about renewable energy and Net Zero by 2030 but publishes zero emissions data, no sustainability report, and no verified targets. Growth is outpacing any decarbonisation planning.

Karma Kitchen scores 33/100 (Below expectations) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Companies can never pay for anything about their own score. Last verified May 2026.

That places Karma Kitchen joint 595th of 934 companies scored, and 20th of 27 in Construction / Real Estate.

The ten questions

What is Karma Kitchen doing well, and where does it fall short?

Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Resource Use & Waste (8/10, 5/10). Weakest on Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain and Emissions Trajectory (2/10, 2/10).

What's missing

Where Karma Kitchen lost points

For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.

  • Emissions from its own operations3/10No emissions figures for its own operations, not even an estimate from energy bills.
  • Emissions from its supply chain2/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
  • Whether its emissions are falling2/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
  • How clean its energy is4/10Less than half its energy shown to be renewable, or no transition plan.
  • Its effect on nature2/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
  • How it uses materials and handles waste5/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
  • Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
  • Its climate targets2/10No specific targets with dates.
  • How openly it reports2/10No published sustainability data, or no one named as responsible for it.

A score changes when the evidence does. We use new published evidence at the next rescore. Anyone can send us new evidence, free. How to send it.

The calculation

How is Karma Kitchen's SINK score calculated?

Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.

SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × Scale
Industry base impact
Construction / Real Estate sector ceiling.
35 / 100
Performance score
Sum of the ten questions, each scored 0 to 10.
32 / 100
Raw score
Weighted average before scale penalty.
(0.3 × 35) + (0.7 × 32) = 32.9
Scale penalty
Multiplier based on total emissions. Bigger polluters lose more.
× 1
Final score
Rounded. Below expectations.
33 / 100
Where the evidence comes from

What evidence is Karma Kitchen'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 Karma Kitchen itself; the rest come from independent sources.

Scored on 5 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.

[1]Self-reported
Environment and Community
OngoingArchived copy from 2025-08-10: the original link no longer opens for us.
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[2]Independent source
PitchBook Company Profile
OngoingArchived copy from 2021-02-06: the original link no longer opens for us.
Q1
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[3]Public record
Karma Kitchen launches latest site in Sydenham
2023
Q3
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[4]Public record
Karma Kitchen launches 20,000 sq ft Lower Sydenham site
2023
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[5]Self-reported
Kitchens
Ongoing
Q4
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[6]Independent source
PowerKnot LFC Biodigester Case Study
Ongoing
Q6Q7
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[7]Self-reported
Central Production
Ongoing
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[8]Self-reported
LinkedIn Company Profile
Ongoing
Q9
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Karma Kitchen in context

How does Karma Kitchen compare with other construction / real estate companies?

Where Karma Kitchen sits among construction / real estate peers.

Among the 27 major construction / real estate brands we've scored, Karma Kitchen sits 20th of 27.

20/27
Karma Kitchen's rank
42
Industry average
27
Industry low
60
Industry high
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