Restaurant Business: How restaurants are working to kick their energy habit

November 15, 2024 - Restaurant Business recently shared an article about how restaurants across the country are looking for innovative ways to cut their high energy consumption. The piece features Budderfly CEO Al Subbloie and Sonic franchise owner Spencer Hart, who explain how we help businesses operate more sustainably while achieving significant cost savings.

"Then about two years ago, Hart heard about Budderfly in a newsletter sent out by Sonic’s parent company, Inspire Brands. Budderfly’s pitch was appealing: It promised to make restaurants more eco-friendly by overhauling their energy infrastructure—at no cost to the operator. In fact, the restaurant would actually save money by signing up. 

To Hart, it seemed almost too good to be true. But, “it’s really worked out to be everything that they said,” he said.

Founded in 2017 by Subbloie, Budderfly calls itself an energy-as-a-service provider. Subbloie saw restaurants’ outdated energy infrastructure as a burden that would be difficult for operators to fix on their own.

“They’re in the business of delivering great food to customers,” Subbloie said. “We created a business model that made it really easy for restaurants to solve the whole [energy] thing.”

Read the full article here.