Food Service / Restaurants

Pho Restaurants sustainability score: 27/100

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About Pho Restaurants

Pho Restaurants is a UK-based casual dining chain specializing in Vietnamese pho and Asian noodle dishes. With approximately 45–50 locations across the UK, the company generated £79.3M in revenue (FY2025) and is privately owned by TriSpan's Rising Stars investment fund.

More about Pho Restaurants

The chain operates gas-fired kitchens and serves meat-heavy and plant-based menus.

Head office London, GBStaff ~700Revenue ~£79MWebsite ↗

Our verdict

Pho Restaurants operates 45+ UK sites with zero emissions disclosure, no carbon targets, and no sustainability strategy whatsoever. A growing chain with significant operational and supply-chain carbon footprints has chosen complete environmental silence. No targets, no reporting, no accountability.

Pho Restaurants scores 27/100 (Significant gaps) 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 Pho Restaurants joint 759th of 934 companies scored, and joint 38th of 51 in Food Service / Restaurants.

The ten questions

What is Pho Restaurants doing well, and where does it fall short?

Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Energy Source (7/10, 2/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Targets & Commitments (0/10, 0/10).

What's missing

Where Pho Restaurants lost points

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

  • Emissions from its own operations1/10No emissions figures for its own operations, not even an estimate from energy bills.
  • Emissions from its supply chain1/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
  • Whether its emissions are falling0/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
  • How clean its energy is2/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
  • Its effect on nature2/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
  • How it uses materials and handles waste2/10No active waste reduction, reuse or repair shown.
  • Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
  • Its climate targets0/10No emissions reduction targets.
  • How openly it reports2/10No published sustainability data, or no one named as responsible for it.
  • Its record on controversies7/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.

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 Pho Restaurants's SINK score calculated?

Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.

SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × Scale
Industry base impact
Food Service / Restaurants sector ceiling.
45 / 100
Performance score
Sum of the ten questions, each scored 0 to 10.
19 / 100
Raw score
Weighted average before scale penalty.
(0.3 × 45) + (0.7 × 19) = 26.8
Scale penalty
Multiplier based on total emissions. Bigger polluters lose more.
× 1
Final score
Rounded. Significant gaps.
27 / 100
Where the evidence comes from

What evidence is Pho Restaurants's score based on?

8 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.

38% of them were published by Pho Restaurants itself; the rest come from independent sources.

Scored on 9 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.

[1]Self-reported
Pho Restaurants — Official Website
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[2]Public record
Companies House — Pho Restaurants Limited (Company 05329479)
Ongoing
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[3]Self-reported
Pho Menus — Official Website
Ongoing
Q5
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[4]Public record
Restaurant Online — Pho expansion and sales growth 2025
2025
Q3
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[5]Public record
Restaurant Online — Pho continues expansion 2023
2023
Q3
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[6]Self-reported
TriSpan LLP — Pho Portfolio Holding
Ongoing
Q9
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[7]Public record
Trademark Lawyer Magazine — Pho trademark rescinded following backlash
2024
Q10
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[8]Public record
VNExpress — UK restaurant chain drops Pho trademark amid cultural appropriation criticism
2024
Q10
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Pho Restaurants in context

How does Pho Restaurants compare with other food service / restaurants companies?

Where Pho Restaurants sits among food service / restaurants peers.

Among the 51 major food service / restaurants brands we've scored, Pho Restaurants is tied =38th of 51, with 2 others.

=38/51
Pho Restaurants's rank
34
Industry average
19
Industry low
51
Industry high
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