Know where your venue actually stands.
Benchmarking built from 1,000+ operators across Australia and New Zealand.
The Foda Index shows you exactly how your operation compares to venues like yours on revenue, productivity, and operational footprint.
300+ Projects across AU & NZ
$1.97B in hospitality sales analysed
1000+ operators & venues
WHAT YOU GET
Financial productivity
See how your revenue per m² compares to venues of your type, size, and location. Understand whether your space is productive as it should be and understand what may be holding it back.
Operational footprint
Get an estimated breakdown of your venue's greenhouse gas emissions across Scope 1, 2, and 3. See where your footprint is concentrated and how it compares to the industry.
How it works
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The survey takes just five minutes. You’ll need your best understanding of:
Your annual revenue
Your venue's area in m²
General knowledge of how your kitchen and service operate
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Within 2–3 business days, you'll receive a personalised report showing your quadrant position, your estimated emissions profile, and your priority actions.
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Start with the actions that score highest on both financial impact and footprint reduction.
The Foda Index is free for restaurant operators across Australia
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Around five minutes. You'll need a sense of your annual revenue, your venue's floor area in m², and general knowledge of how your kitchen and service model operate.
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No. The Foda Index is a high-level assessment tool, not a certified emissions inventory. It's designed to be useful on day one — a starting point, not a compliance exercise.
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Select Don't Know. The model applies an industry-standard assumption based on your venue type and flags it in your report as a data gap. Being honest about what you don't know is more useful than guessing.
Priority Actions
Receive a set of specific, ranked recommendations based on your survey responses and your position on the matrix. Actions tied directly to how your business runs.
Seen the Foda Index at a venue you love?
When a venue displays the Foda Index, it means they've chosen to be assessed on how they actually run, not just how they present.
Most hospitality ratings measure what customers think of a venue after visiting. The Foda Index measures something different: how well the venue is run from the inside. The decisions that shape the quality of your experience, how ingredients are sourced, how waste is managed, and how the kitchen operates are the same decisions that determine a venue's environmental impact. The Foda Index makes both visible.
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A venue that carries the Foda Index has been assessed against a dataset of comparable businesses across Australia on sourcing, waste, energy use, and operational practices. They know where they stand. They've chosen to act on it.
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The Foda Index is built on a methodology independently developed and consistently applied across hundreds of venues, not on what operators choose to say about themselves in marketing, but on a structured assessment against a common set of operational and environmental measures.
Every venue is assessed the same way. The data behind those measures comes from hundreds of operators and $1.97B in analysed hospitality sales across Australia and New Zealand, providing the assessment with a real-world reference point that no self-reported rating can offe.
When you see the Foda Index, you're looking at a venue that has chosen to be measured honestly, and held to the same standard as every other venue in the dataset.
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Venues that carry the Foda Index aren't just well-reviewed, they're well-run.
They've been assessed on the decisions that most customers never see: how ingredients are sourced, how waste is handled, how energy is used. Choosing to spend your money here is choosing to reward a business that is focused on building a sustainable restaurant industry!
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