Portillo's Inc..
PTLO.US | Restaurants and mobile food service activities
Portillo's Inc. is a fast-casual restaurant chain known for its Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, burgers, salads, and chocolate cake. The company operates and franchises restaurants across several states, primarily in the Midwest and increasingly in other regions of the United States...Show More
Better Health for All
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No evidence available to assess Portillo's Inc. on Better Health for All.
Fair Money & Economic Opportunity
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Portillo's Inc. is a fast-casual restaurant chain, and its core business does not involve lending, insuring, moving, or storing money for consumers. The company does not offer financial products or services that would generate data relevant to the KPIs under the 'Fair Money & Economic Opportunity' value. There is no evidence of consumer lending, deposit services, APRs, fee structures, high-cost financial products, or customer financial data management. While Portillo's engages in community fundraising and donations, such as giving 20% of fundraiser sales to beneficiary organizations and donating a portion of heart-shaped cake sales to national partnerships, these activities do not constitute 'community finance reinvestment' or 'inclusion initiatives' as defined by the rubric for financial institutions, which specifically refers to a share of loan/insurance book or reinvestment of profit into community finance.
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Therefore, all KPIs are scored as 'Not applicable' or 'No direct impact' based on the nature of the company's business and the absence of relevant financial services data.
Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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No evidence available to assess Portillo's Inc. on Fair Pay & Worker Respect.
Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing
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Portillo's conducts bi-annual assessments of its food sourcing suppliers to ensure compliance with applicable labor laws and to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from its direct supply chain.
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The company intends to expand these assessments to gather more information, potentially including risk assessments, supplier assessments, certification requests, and audits.
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However, Portillo's does not plan to use a third-party for verification or audit processes.
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Honest & Fair Business
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No evidence available to assess Portillo's Inc. on Honest & Fair Business.
Kind to Animals
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Portillo's committed in 2017 to transition its egg supply to 100% cage-free by 2025.
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However, by 2025, this policy was removed from its website, and no updates have been shared.
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The company's egg supply originates from systems where hundreds of thousands of hens are confined in overcrowded battery cages, unable to spread their wings, leading to injuries and deformities from the wire cages.
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These conditions are described as horrifically cruel, indicating extreme confinement practices where animals cannot express natural behaviors.
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No War, No Weapons
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No evidence was found in the provided articles to assess Portillo's Inc. against the 'No War, No Weapons' ethical value. The articles discuss the company's operations as a restaurant chain, focusing on employee reviews, ethical sourcing practices related to labor laws, bi-annual supplier assessments, sustainability initiatives, and food safety. None of these directly address any of the specific KPIs related to arms manufacturing, military contracts, dual-use technology, conflict-zone exposures, or peacebuilding initiatives.
Planet-Friendly Business
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Portillo's has implemented several packaging changes, including switching from foam sandwich boxes to recycled paper in Q3 2021, and transitioning to 100% recyclable brown paper bags certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative in Q1 2022.
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The company also changed side and soup cups from foam to paper in Q4 2022, updated gravy packaging from plastic tubs to pouches resulting in a nearly 100x waste reduction in Q1 2023, and transitioned soft drink cups from foam to paper in Q3 2023.
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Additionally, Portillo's recycles cooking oil into renewable diesel and has retrofitted most original restaurants with energy-efficient lighting, reducing lighting energy use by 55%.
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All new restaurants are built with energy-efficient lighting, and the company introduced a Non-GMO Project verified Plant Based Garden Dog.
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Respect for Cultures & Communities
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The provided articles do not contain specific, concrete data points for Portillo's Inc. (PTLO.US) that align with the quantitative thresholds defined in the rubric for any of the 'Respect for Cultures & Communities' KPIs. Information regarding formal partnerships, revenue reinvested locally, cultural appropriation incidents, cultural impact assessment protocols, local employment ratios, grievance mechanisms, complaint resolution times, FPIC participation, community governance inclusion, cultural preservation investment, local procurement share, indigenous supplier count, cultural site protection, social license operations, charitable giving cultural, community fund allocation, language inclusivity, cultural incident response, or cultural training completion for Portillo's Inc. is not available in the provided evidence.
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Safe & Smart Tech
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The provided article, a summary of Portillo's Privacy Policy, outlines general practices regarding data collection, use, disclosure, and consumer rights.
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However, it does not contain specific, quantifiable data points, metrics, or details on implementation (e.g., percentages, timeframes, incident counts, specific certifications, investment figures, or audit results) that are required to assess the company against any of the Safe & Smart Tech KPIs.
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Therefore, no KPIs can be scored based on the available evidence.
Zero Waste & Sustainable Products
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Portillo's diverts 43% of its total restaurant waste from landfills.
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The company has converted 37% of its packaging to recyclable materials, including a new 100% recyclable brown paper bag.
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Waste reduction initiatives include a food waste composting program at 28 locations, contributing to an annual waste reduction of 127 metric tons, and the recycling of cooking oil into renewable diesel.
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The company has also transitioned various packaging components from foam or plastic to paper, such as sandwich boxes, side cups, soup cups, and soft drink cups, and updated gravy packaging from plastic tubs to pouches.
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The company reported food safety violation rates of 3.4% in Illinois, 2.9% in Arizona, and 4.1% in California.
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