Stock image of Christmas crackers
Côte restaurants has removed Christmas crackers from its festive menu in a bid to reduce paper waste.
The popular British café chain usually spends £40,000 on crackers for guests to enjoy with their festive meals each year.
However, bosses have decided to remove the item from menus and will instead donate the cash to Magic Breakfast, a charity that provides meals to schoolchildren from low-income households.
Côte’s Christmas menu launched on November 30 and will run right through until December 24. Guests have enjoyed a seasonal, French-inspired 3-course Christmas menu, just without the additional decoration of crackers.
The donation will now support thousands of children and will also help to combat mass paper waste created by Christmas crackers.
Jane Holbrook from Côte restaurants said: “Magic Breakfast do amazing work that positively impacts the lives of thousands of children. We are big fans of what they do and over the last couple of years our team and owners have donated over £200,000.
“We decided we should do more, so we’ve donated the money that would have been spent on Christmas crackers to them, so they can buy thousands of breakfasts for children who really need it.”
Cote is a British café chain that serves French-inspired food. It was founded by Richard Caring, Andy Bassadone, Chris Benians and Nick Fiddler in 2007 in Wimbledon.
