Sustainable Development Strategies of Restaurants in Cabanatuan City

Abstract

The study delved on determining the sustainable development strategies of restaurants in Cabanatuan City, Philippines. It covered certain areas of sustainable development more particularly in the aspects of Economic, Environmental, and Social. It used the descriptive research design that consisted of 8 randomly selected restaurants using a guided interview and observation to gather data. Findings showed that the restaurants have been adhering to certain areas of sustainable development more particularly in the area of Business Management which ranked first, while some components in the true sense of Corporate Social Responsibility may be lacking. Other noteworthy observations included the loose implementation of waste management, challenges on food supply chain management sustainability is in the offing, and subscription to the use of renewable energy be considered urgent. Overall score on the eight parameters measured in this study pointed to the sustainable development strategies to the verbal interpretation of “often” which has to be elevated to "always" for more sustainable development goals.