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Restaurant Carbon Calculator

GHG Protocol Scope 1/2 screening footprint for a restaurant — with per-seat benchmark.

Restaurants burn LPG all day and refrigerate all night — cooking fuel plus cold-chain electricity dominates, and per-seat intensity is the benchmark the chains track. Enter monthly bills and fuel purchases; the tool builds a Scope 1/2 inventory (plus flights) and benchmarks intensity per seat — the first number every customer ESG questionnaire asks for.

55.8 tCO₂e
Annual footprint
0.93 t
Per seat
62%
Scope 2 share
Scope 1 — fuels burned on site21.46 tCO₂e
Scope 2 — purchased electricity34.37 tCO₂e
Scope 3 (flights only)0.00 tCO₂e
Typical Restaurant per seat≈ 1.5 t

GHG Protocol screening inventory for a Restaurant: Scope 1 = fuel × factor (diesel 2.68, petrol 2.31 kgCO₂e/L), Scope 2 = kWh × grid factor (0.716 kg/kWh for India (CEA avg)). Full Scope 3 needs purchased goods & services data — start with the big rocks shown here.

Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard (Scopes 1/2/3); Grid factor: CEA (India) / eGRID / national inventories; Fuel factors: IPCC 2006 defaults

Screening-level estimate using published average emission factors. Audited disclosures (BRSR, GRI, CDP) require primary activity data and verified factors — confirm with your sustainability auditor.

Use the free Restaurant Carbon Calculator online — GHG Protocol Scope 1/2 screening footprint for a restaurant — with per-seat benchmark. Runs instantly in your browser: no signup, no upload, mobile-friendly.

About Restaurant Carbon Calculator

Restaurants burn LPG all day and refrigerate all night — cooking fuel plus cold-chain electricity dominates, and per-seat intensity is the benchmark the chains track. Enter monthly bills and fuel purchases; the tool builds a Scope 1/2 inventory (plus flights) and benchmarks intensity per seat — the first number every customer ESG questionnaire asks for.

How to use Restaurant Carbon Calculator

  1. 1Pick your grid region and enter monthly electricity from the bill.
  2. 2Add fuel purchases (diesel, LPG, gas) and business flights.
  3. 3Read the annual tCO₂e, the scope split and your per-unit intensity vs benchmark.

Why use Restaurant Carbon Calculator?

  • ✓GHG Protocol Scope 1/2 structure — the format every questionnaire expects
  • ✓Sector-typical defaults so the first estimate takes two minutes
  • ✓Per-unit intensity benchmark: know if you're lean or heavy for your sector
  • ✓Grid-region selector with real national factors

Frequently asked questions

What are Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions?+

Scope 1: fuels your business burns directly — generator diesel, kitchen LPG, company vehicles. Scope 2: emissions embedded in purchased electricity. Together they're the 'operational footprint' every customer ESG questionnaire and BRSR-lite request asks for first; Scope 3 (value chain) comes later.

How accurate is a bill-based carbon footprint?+

For Scopes 1–2, very: utility bills and fuel purchases are exact activity data, and published factors (CEA grid, IPCC fuels) are the same ones consultants use. Expect ±5% versus a paid screening study — the gaps appear only in Scope 3 territory.

What should a small business do with this number?+

Three things: answer customer/lender ESG requests with confidence; find the biggest line (usually electricity or diesel) and attack it — efficiency and rooftop solar cut both carbon and cost; and baseline this year so next year shows a trend. The trend is what buyers reward.

Why does the Restaurant Carbon Calculator ask for my grid region?+

A kWh's footprint depends entirely on what made it: India's coal-heavy grid ≈0.716 kg/kWh, France's nuclear grid ≈0.06. The same office moves 10× in Scope 2 by geography — region-correct factors are the difference between accounting and guessing.

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