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This café has confirmed responsible practice across four areas of its everyday operation. Vegetables lead the menu, with more than three quarters of the dishes vegetarian or vegan. The café works towards an almost fully organic assortment, which extends to the meat, dairy and eggs it serves. Its coffee is bought directly from farming families in the Nueva Florida community in Peru through a transparent, long-term trading relationship, then roasted in the Netherlands. On the waste and materials side, drinks to go are served in plant-based compostable cups, guests are rewarded for bringing their own cup, staff workwear is made from recycled material, and the café contributes to seagrass restoration in the Wadden Sea.
The impact dimensions
Low waste & circular practices✓
Sustainable animal products✓
Coffee is sourced directly from named Peruvian farms and exported via Cultivar. Other ingredients are sourced through organic wholesaler Udea, but no local Dutch producers are named.
The café sources coffee directly from the Nueva Florida community in Peru through exporter Cultivar and roaster Keen, representing a named, direct producer relationship. Other sourced ingredients—produce, dairy, meat and bakery items—come through the organic wholesaler Udea, which supplies certified organic products but does not identify named regional or local Dutch farms.
Local or regional Dutch sourcing is not positioned as a kitchen value. While the sourcing emphasises organic certification and, in coffee's case, direct relationships, it does not prioritise geographical proximity.
The café positions fresh, seasonal products as a value in its everyday operation.
The café states that products are freshly prepared and tailored to the season, describing seasonality as part of its kitchen philosophy.
No structured seasonal menu rotation, dated menu changes, or seasonal specials were documented online, so the claim rests on the café's self-description rather than observed practice or independent corroboration.
Plant-based compostable to-go cups with a reusable-cup discount (€0.30), recycled-material workwear, and annual seagrass restoration funding in the Wadden Sea.
Specific practices span materials and waste: compostable plant-based cups for takeaway drinks that can be composted with food waste, a €0.30 discount to encourage guests to bring their own cup, and staff uniforms made from 100% recycled fabric.
The café also partners with Lowlander to fund annual seagrass restoration in the Wadden Sea, contributing to coastal ecosystem recovery.
Around 95% of the assortment is EU-organic certified via Udea, extending to all animal products served (meat, dairy, eggs). Trade press confirms the transition.
The café serves meat and fish—chicken and salmon in sandwiches—as part of a predominantly plant-based menu. Around 95% of the assortment is EU-organic certified, and this certification extends to all animal products (meat, dairy, eggs) and provides welfare and environmental qualifications for those items.
The brand's transition to the organic wholesaler Udea was reported in trade press (February 2024), corroborating its organic-assortment claim. No individually named meat or fish suppliers or species-specific fishing methods are documented.
Direct-trade coffee sourcing with named Peruvian farming families in Nueva Florida; membership in MVO Nederland and Future Proof Coffee Collective.
The café's social commitment is anchored in its direct-trade coffee supply chain. Coffee-farming families in the Nueva Florida community in Peru are named trading partners, with the relationship framed as a reciprocal exchange of knowledge, techniques and mutual respect rather than a price-only transaction.
This commitment is supported by the brand's membership in MVO Nederland (the Dutch network for corporate social responsibility) and the Future Proof Coffee Collective, both of which represent verifiable social-supply-chain standards.
More than 75% of menu items are vegetarian or vegan. LekkerVega Silver certified across Netherlands locations.
More than 75% of the breakfast, lunch and sandwich menu is vegetarian or vegan, with plants as the structural foundation of the offering. Extensive vegan choices are available across most categories, making animal products the clear minority.
This plant-forward orientation is corroborated by the LekkerVega Silver keurmerk (a Dutch certification for plant-based restaurants), which the brand holds across its Netherlands locations.
Sourcing signals
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Certified organic ingredients
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Direct named-farm sourcing
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Low-impact beverage program
Brand states roughly 95% of the menu is organic-certified, sourced via the organic wholesaler Udea (Skal / EU-organic chain). Anne&Max was reported as the first national coffee chain to switch to Udea, corroborated by trade press.
Coffee is sourced through named direct-trade partners: exporter Cultivar, roaster Keen, and coffee-farming families (Family Ccoillar, Nueva Florida) in Peru.
Coffee is direct-trade certified with a transparent chain to named Peruvian farmers; the brand also stocks fairtrade and direct-trade products.
Specialty coffee with traceable single-origin (Peru) direct-trade beans, organic tea and chai.
