Pizza Pilgrims sustainability score: 46/100
Limited independent evidence: only two independent sources cover this company. The score may change as more evidence appears.
Pizza Pilgrims is a UK pizza restaurant group, incorporated in 2012 with its registered office in London, and owned since October 2025 by FR L'Osteria SE. It had about 566 staff and revenue of £59.8m in the 18 months to 31 December 2025.
Founded 2012Head office London, UKStaff ~566Revenue £59.8m (18 months to 31 December 2025)Website ↗
Pizza Pilgrims reports a footprint of 9,095 tCO2e across Scopes 1 to 3, without independent assurance. Its emissions per cover rose from 3.87 to 4.16 kg in 2024, which it attributes to better capital goods data. It has absolute targets to 2050, none validated by SBTi. It reports no water measurement or waste tonnage, and its action plan dates that work for 2027.
Pizza Pilgrims scores 46/100 (Making progress) 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 November 2026.
That places Pizza Pilgrims joint 264th of 1,017 companies scored, and joint 7th of 53 in Food Service / Restaurants.
What is Pizza Pilgrims doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Carbon Footprint: Operations (8/10, 6/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Water Impact (1/10, 2/10).
Where Pizza Pilgrims lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
- Emissions from its own operations6/10Its own emissions aren't independently verified or tracked over several years.
- Emissions from its supply chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling1/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is6/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature3/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles waste3/10No active waste reduction, reuse or repair shown.
- Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets5/10Its targets aren't science-based or committed to the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
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How is Pizza Pilgrims's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Pizza Pilgrims's score based on?
14 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
29% of them were published by Pizza Pilgrims itself; the rest come from independent sources.
10 of 14 sources are independent of the company.
“Stationary Combustion 118 73.8%”
“The encouraging part is that Klimato calculated the kg CO2e”
“Our sustainability programme continues to deliver improvements in energy usage, waste”
“Pizza Pilgrims does not engage directly in lobbying, defined as direct communication with elected officials,”
“all the pizza dough will be made with only regenerative UK wheat in collaboration with Wild Farmed”
“Unlike their other locations, this Pizza Pilgrims is 100% sustainability focused”
“The pizzeria was built using responsibly harvested, FSC sustainable timber.”
“increasing the traceability and quality of the raw materials used to make Caputo flour.”
“The business only uses renewable energy and gas in all its pizzerias”
“Sustainability consultant Jonny Lockett discusses the group’s commitment to minimising its environmental footprint”
“The news then that it is being bought by L’Osteria”
“56101 - Licensed restaurants”
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How does Pizza Pilgrims compare with other food service / restaurants companies?
Where Pizza Pilgrims sits among food service / restaurants peers.
Among the 53 major food service / restaurants brands we've scored, Pizza Pilgrims is tied =7th of 53, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in Food Service / Restaurants?
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