Food

At our core, Inspire exists to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences—and we’re living out our purpose, offering delicious food and beverage options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and everything in between.
While each of our brands offers unique experiences, our values remain consistent. You’ll find a commitment to food safety in our kitchens, nutritious, high-quality meals on our menus, and responsible sourcing considerations behind our ingredients.

Food Safety

Nutrition and Food Quality

Responsible Sourcing

Food Safety

Our brands have earned consumer trust over many years by prioritizing food safety to keep our guests safe. Our Food Safety team reinforces safe and hygienic practices from purchasing decisions to food preparation guidelines and facility cleaning procedures.

Inspire’s Food Safety team recently led a transformational initiative to standardize measurement and management of food safety performance across all brands. By aligning our approach to evaluating food safety, restaurant teams can better understand, recognize, and address potential opportunities within their operations while building the basis for continuous improvement and coaching. In the first year, this program delivered successful results, with better calibration across all brands, field teams, and third-party auditors to significantly enhance program efficiency.

With food safety embedded in our culture, we’re proud to see stakeholders throughout our value chain championing new technologies that increase traceability, identify potential risks or hazards, and improve data management.

Nutrition and Food Quality

Our six iconic brands share a passion for serving delicious, high-quality food that our guests love. We believe in a customer-centric approach to nutrition, adapting our offerings to meet evolving consumer preferences and maintaining accurate and easy-to-access nutrition information.

Providing Choices

Our brands are well known for signature menu items that have amassed lifelong fans. We continue to expand our fanbase by developing options for a variety of lifestyle choices, dietary restrictions, and regional cuisines. Our culinary innovations keep our menus updated with flavors and ingredients that make it possible for more guests to enjoy our food.

Baskin-Robbins is scooping up classic flavors to support dietary preferences, including ‘No Sugar Added Caramel Turtle Truffle¹,’ ‘Non-Dairy Mint Chocochunk²,’ and ‘Vegan-Friendly Lemon Sorbet³.’

Dunkin’ guests can build their coffee creation just the way they like it with three different non-dairy options: oat milk, almond milk, and coconut milk. In fact, Dunkin’ was the first national restaurant brand to offer oat milk at 100% of its U.S. locations through a partnership with Planet Oat.

Jimmy John’s is crafting customized sandwiches, empowering guests to add or eliminate ingredients in addition to making any sandwich an Unwich®.

1. At least 25% less fat than our regular ice cream. Regular Ice Cream: 10 grams Fat per 2.5 oz Scoop, and 15 grams Fat per 4 oz Scoop.
2. Non-dairy means that the item is made without dairy-containing ingredients. Although the following items do not contain ingredients with dairy, there is always a chance for cross-contact with dairy from other products in the restaurant. Given the likelihood of cross-contact in our restaurants, this is not suitable for people with a milk allergy.
3. Baskin-Robbins' definition of a vegan-friendly menu item is a food or beverage with no animal sources: no meat, fish, shellfish, milk, egg, or honey products, and no enzymes and rennet from animal sources. While we take every precaution to avoid cross-contact between our vegan-friendly and non-vegan products, please note that all our menu items are prepared in the same area. We cannot guarantee that there will be no cross-contact between products or ingredients.

Exemplifying Maverick Behavior

Our Brand and Commercial teams have a special talent for monitoring consumer trends and bringing viral moments to life with our culinary teams, doing what has never been done before.

SONIC Smasher

Launched in 2024, the SONIC Smasher represents our commitment to serving classic menu items in an authentic way. The product development team successfully balanced quality with affordability, creating an immediate hit that all our fans can enjoy. Hand-smashed and prepared to order, the Smasher is a premium cheeseburger without the premium price tag.

Jimmy John's Picklewich

Inspired by social media trends, the Jimmy John’s team saw an opportunity to bring their fan-favorite kosher dill pickles to the next level by introducing the Picklewich in the fall of 2024. The innovation delivered flavors of classic Jimmy John’s sandwiches but replaced the bread with a giant pickle which not only satisfied pickle lovers but also garnered support as an unsuspecting low-carb option.

Transparency and Labeling

We believe in transparency, empowering guests to make informed choices about the menu selections that fit within their unique dietary preferences or limitations. Guests can access full ingredient lists with nutrition and allergen information for each brand on their respective websites. We’re making it even easier to access this information by adding it to brand apps and piloting menu filter capabilities that guests can consult while ordering.

Responsible Sourcing

Supply Chain Overview

With a multi-brand approach, Inspire’s Supply Chain team is uniquely positioned to drive efficiencies through sourcing, procurement, distribution, commodity management, and demand planning. Our shared supply chain collectively manages purchasing for Buffalo Wild Wings, Jimmy John’s, SONIC, and all international restaurants, while Arby’s and Dunkin’ are served by co-op partners, ARCOP, Inc (ARCOP), and National DCP, LLC (NDCP)⁴, respectively.

The Inspire Supply Chain team works closely with ARCOP and NDCP to ensure that standards, policies, and initiatives are communicated and implemented across all brands. This partnership provides a forum to share best practices and investments, which enables our brands to deliver high-quality menu items to our guests.

We are engaging in continuous learning and improvement with our supply chain partners. Through regular communication, we can identify potential risks in our supply chain, including climate-related risks, and adapt accordingly to mitigate negative business impacts. Our team actively monitors and assesses supply chain opportunities where sustainability-driven projects generate positive business outcomes like cost-savings or new market growth.

Sustainability is woven throughout the Inspire supply chain—from regenerative agriculture practices on coffee farms in Brazil, to electrified transport fleets across the U.S. We recognize that every supplier is at a different stage in their sustainability journey, and we’re committed to collaborating closely as we each take meaningful steps toward a more sustainable and resilient future.

4. Arby’s U.S. supply chain is served by ARCOP, Inc., whose membership is comprised of both franchised and company-owned Arby’s restaurants. Dunkin’s U.S. supply chain is served by National DCP, LLC (NDCP).

Responsible Sourcing of Key Commodities

As a global company, we have an extensive value chain and proudly engage in collaborative initiatives to drive change. We believe a meaningful impact can be realized through responsibly sourcing key commodities.

Dairy

As a member of the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Alliance, Inspire is actively engaging with suppliers and industry partners to accelerate progress toward common sustainability goals.

Seafood

Inspire sources Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Certified seafood whenever possible. Buffalo Wild Wings serves MSC Certified Haddock, SONIC and Arby’s serve MSC Certified Wild Alaskan Pollock, and Jimmy John’s serves Dolphin-Safe Tuna.

Palm Oil

Dunkin’ works with Rainforest Alliance to validate that 100% of our directly sourced palm oil is sourced as Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Mass Balance Certified.

Eggs

Arby’s met its commitment to offer 100% cage-free eggs while SONIC and Dunkin’ continue to make positive progress in their sourcing of cage-free eggs.

Responsible Coffee & Tea Sourcing

America’s favorite coffee not only tastes good, but it also does good. From the coffee farm to the coffee cup, we are improving transparency and contributing to programs that benefit the environment and support local communities impacted by the coffee industry. Protecting the land and the farmers across our supply chain enables long-term resiliency to continue providing high-quality coffee for decades to come.

From our coffee farmers to our coffee-loving guests, together, we can make a difference.

We are proud to partner with Enveritas, an independent global nonprofit that tracks social, economic, and environmental impact in coffee-growing regions, to help us benchmark and address relevant vulnerabilities within our supply chain.

Our responsible sourcing program is built on three pillars: verification, partnerships, and improvement.

Verification

Leveraging Enveritas to assess the traceability, sustainability, and improvement efforts for U.S. Dunkin’ coffee purchases.

Partnerships

Dunkin’ and NDCP are actively engaged in industry-wide coffee organizations, leading the way to advance coffee sustainability.

World Coffee Research: A research organization driving science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come.
Sustainable Coffee Challenge: A collaborative effort facilitated by Conservation International to increase transparency, align around a common vision for sustainability, and accelerate progress toward those goals.

Improvement

Beyond assessing sustainability risks, we are investing in meaningful intervention activities to address identified gaps. We are adapting our support programs to better align with representative sourcing regions and prioritize the most urgent community challenges.

Farmer training program: In 2024, we completed a three-year commitment with Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) to help 350 coffee farming families in Santa Barbara and Comayagua, Honduras, improve their economic status and environmental stewardship through access to trainings and improved yields.

Tea

For those guests who prefer tea, we are proud to offer Rainforest Alliance Certified iced tea. Our green and black hot teas are certified by either Rainforest Alliance or Ethical Tea Partnership, ensuring that our full tea portfolio meets responsible sourcing standards.

Exemplifying Good Citizens Behavior

Our Impact team coordinates origin trips to strengthen supply chain engagement and support our partners to elevate each other and the communities we serve.

Inspired Origins Buffalo Wild Wings Hops

Hops are an important crop for Buffalo Wild Wings—as the largest pourer of draft beer in the U.S., we estimate our guests consume more hops than any other restaurant brand. To see the hops harvest in action, Inspire team members traveled to Oregon’s Willamette Valley, one of the areas where Sierra Nevada sources hops, to learn more about the origin of our beer. They visited family farms like CLS, which is on its fifth generation of growers. To recognize and support their future generations, Inspire’s Impact team presented the Dan Martinez Jr. Scholarship Award to help family members of those working within the hops industry pursue higher education.

Inspired Origins Dunkin’ Coffee

The scale of coffee farming varies throughout the world, from small, family-owned farms in Guatemala, to large, industrial farms in Brazil. Members of the Inspire team have visited a range of coffee partners in Central and South America, recognizing the strengths and challenges of each sourcing region to better inform our engagement strategies and uplift our suppliers. During a 2024 visit to suppliers in Brazil, Inspire provided 300+ food baskets to a community that faced economic instability after a catastrophic landslide.

Animal Welfare

Inspire supports the humane treatment of animals. While we do not own, raise, process, or transport livestock, we recognize that animal welfare is an important part of a safe and sustainable food supply chain. Inspire works closely with our supply chain partners and industry organizations to monitor and research the latest advances in animal welfare practices. We engage internal and external experts to maintain a holistic approach that is focused on animal welfare outcomes.

Our brands require suppliers to follow applicable FDA guidelines related to antibiotic use. This includes the judicious use of antibiotics, under the supervision of a veterinarian, to prevent or treat illness in animals.