Case study: SAVING Water, Moshimo, Sushi Restaurant Brighton

Our Sustainability Change: not automatically putting water on the table

In 9 years, MOSHIMO have saved £115,000 and stopped 1,860,000 litres of water from being poured down the drain.

“First we looked at how much we were using and then we started looking at costs.” – Karl, MOSHIMO

STEPS TO WATER SAVING SUCCESS

Understand how much water you use
Look at where waste is occurring
Trial ideas for nonessential water usage
Make the change

“Some stuff you can’t get around. We are always going to be washing hands, washing rice, flushing toilets, doing the things restaurants do every day.” – Karl, MOSHIMO

how Moshimo made the change

The introduction of water meters forced MOSHIMO to understand how much water they were using at the restaurant. They conducted small studies and found that each week, staff were providing customers with 5,760 litres of water, of which 4,000 litres would not be consumed and would be poured away. Rather than simply putting water on the table, when MOSHIMO customers ask for water, they are now given as many glasses as they would like, one at a time.

“Of course, to save time and energy for staff they would automatically put down a carafe and some glasses.” – Karl, MOSHIMO

About Moshimo

Sustainable sushi restaurant
Open for 24 years
315 covers

“It was kind of difficult in the beginning to work out how to do it. The decision, once we started seeing the numbers and started to see the waste was just to stop putting water on tables. Have it available for guests who ask for it by the glass. But not by the jug load.” – Karl, MOSHIMO

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one more thing MOSHIMO does to be sustainable

Moshimo is constantly looking at ways to be more sustainable. Like all the venues we interviewed for this project there is an acceptance that there is always more that can be done. When chatting, Karl can easily list multiple examples of where Moshimo have looked at waste and used that to prompt change or innovation as well as where they would like to do more.

FishLove Campaign

Fishlove was set up in 2009 by Nicholas Röhl, co-owner of MOSHIMO, and actress Greta Scacchi to raise awareness of the unsustainable fishing practices that are destroying the the earth’s marine ecosystem. The Fishlove project is funded by Moshimo. Find out more about Fishlove.