Search from the page

Competencies, commitment and wellbeing of personnel  Competence development is a joint effort   Leijona Catering is a strong expert of food services and a responsible workplace. We want to offer our personnel a safe and inspiring workplace. For us, occupational wellbeing and the competencies and skills of personnel are key.   State-of-the-art competencies require continuous development of … Read more

In our operations we focus in six of the UN Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030.   Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.   We want to transition to using regeneratively farmed and produced ingredients in the food we serve, and, in our sourcing, to pay attention to … Read more

Reducing food waste is one of the resource efficiency corner stones at Leijona Catering. Our systematic work in food waste reduction began in 2017. We measure monthly average food waste in grams per customer and each canteen and restaurant have their own target.    Loss in the different stages of the food system is a big … Read more

Providing for a good life: healthy and safe food   At the heart of Leijona Catering’s social responsibility is supporting healthy eating habits. Sufficient intake of energy and regular meals are material to our biggest customer groups, the military conscripts and prisoners, in terms of their stamina and wellbeing.    When serving the daily meals at the … Read more

At Leijona Catering financial responsibility means adding value by economical housekeeping as well as actions to maintain competitiveness and customer-centered operations.    We monitor the profitability of our operations by both strategic and operational metrics. As a financially strong company we can carry our responsibility for the environment, to respond to our customers’ needs, to take … Read more

The biggest environmental and ethical challenges in the food chain can typically be found in the primary production, and the longer and more complex the supply chain the trickier it may prove to trace ingredients to farm level. In that light, tracking the origin of domestic ingredients when needed is relatively easy; and mostly the … Read more

Our goal at Leijona Catering is to be the most environmentally sustainable food service company in Finland. This means that we have to further develop our menus, sourcing, competencies, and sustainability on an on-going basis. We embrace the environmental perspective in everything we do to reduce consumption of natural resources. To be able to do … Read more

Reducing the climate emissions per meal is our most important sustainability goal. Leijona Catering Oy is one of Finland’s largest food service companies and the food ingredients cause over 90 % of the carbon footprint of our operations.   We can reduce the climate emissions of food by several different means that we at Leijona strive … Read more

A high ratio of domestic food is part of the supply and delivery security promise of Leijona Catering. At the same time, we must ensure that any possible availability challenges of food domestically do not have an impact on the supply security of our customers. Therefore, we must also maintain sourcing channels for imported food.    … Read more

Farming for food in Finland has an impact on the wellbeing of the Baltic Sea. On the national level Leijona Catering is one of the biggest buyers of food with a daily volume of about 70 000 meals. It is important to us that the food we serve is as environmentally friendly as possible also from … Read more