Responsible Sourcing Approach

At Restaurant Brands International, our sourcing approach is simple: integrity, honesty and compliance with the law are not optional.

As a consumer-facing business, many of our products’ biggest environmental impacts are located beyond our own operations. We embrace our responsibility to work with suppliers, franchisees, and other stakeholders to try and minimize these impacts.

Protecting Forests

In our supply chain, we aim to help advance sustainable forest management practices and eliminate deforestation by 2030 or sooner for several key commodities, including coffee, palm oil, fibre-based packaging, soy in poultry feed and beef. Specifically, our deforestation policy outlines our goals to help ensure priority commodities do not directly or indirectly contribute to deforestation, promote responsible land use that prevents ecosystem degradation, and protect humane working conditions and legitimate land use rights.

Animal Health and Welfare

We know that our ability to serve safe, quality food depends on a foundation of responsible care for the health and welfare of the animals in our supply chain.

While we are not directly involved in the raising, feeding, handling, transportation or processing of animals, as a major global purchaser of animal proteins and animal products, we have an opportunity to leverage our influence to promote strong practices of care for those animals. To achieve this, we are partnering with suppliers and producers across our supply chain to drive toward continuous improvement of animal welfare outcomes throughout their lives.

Beef Sustainability

As one of the world’s largest purchasers of beef through the Burger King brand restaurants, we are seizing the opportunity to reduce emissions from our beef given the impact of this commodity on our total GHG footprint.

Coffee Sourcing

There is a coffee farming community behind every cup of Tims coffee that we serve. Through the Tims Coffee for Communities program we are helping empower coffee farmers to improve their livelihoods through training in partnership with local coffee exporters, not-for-profits and producer organizations.

We are also proud to partner with Enveritas, which assesses 100% of Tim Hortons coffee purchases each year under a set of social, economic and environmental standards.

Ethics & Human Rights

RBI is committed to protecting human rights and supporting safe, fair working conditions throughout our supply chain. Our Code of Business Ethics and Conduct for Vendors states the basic requirements that must be met by all vendors, including their employees, officers, agents and subcontractors, who are approved to do business with us. Please refer to our policies and reports webpage to access our Modern Slavery Act Report (Canada) which outlines many of the key measures the business has taken to prevent and reduce modern slavery risks across our supply chain.

In 2024, RBI became a member of Sedex, one of the world’s leading organizations that partners with companies to create more socially and environmentally sustainable supply chains. Sedex assessments evaluate supplier site risk in four key areas: labour standards, health and safety, environment and business ethics..