SAHETIANS MAKING HEADLINES

Anastasi Nichas

Class of 1992

Neat Burger - Company of the Year Award

Founded in 2019, Neat is one of the world's fastest growing global plant-based QSR groups. Neat has evolved from its first Neat Burger location into an omni channel food tech company.

With a focus on high quality, fresh ingredients with no compromise on taste, Neat has rapidly gained a reputation for its pioneering approach ensuring its products appeal to both flexitarian and plant-based consumers alike.

Neat is all about accessibility and providing people with an alternative in a fun and engaging environment. Neat's purpose is to offer ethical, sustainable and delicious plant-based food served with passion and style.

Changing consumer behaviour and interest in alternative-protein sources - due in part to health and environmental concerns as well as animal welfare - have paved the way for growth in the alternative-proteins market.

Neat Burger has achieved not only a loyal fanbase but industry recognition too, having won for a second consecutive year, the UK's Best Vegan Restaurant of the Year at the Deliveroo Restaurant Awards. It was also nominated for the 2021 GQ Food & Drink Sustainability Award.

Most recently, the brand was awarded PETA's inaugural Company of the Year Award for its game changing approach to a plant-based diet, encouraging people to eat delicious, protein-packed plant-based meals. As part of its mission to save the planet, one bite at a time, Neat Burger is working with Eden Projects on its large scale reforestation initiatives.

In 2021 Neat Burger funded the planting of over one million trees in Madagascar and it is now planting 50,000 mangrove trees in recognition of the brand reaching the same number of Instagram followers.