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Canada's Cara to switch all restaurants to cage-free eggs

Reuters

(Reuters) - Cara Operations Ltd (Toronto:CAO.TO - News), owner of the Swiss Chalet casual dining chain and Harvey's burger outlets familiar across Canada, said on Thursday it would serve only cage-free eggs at all its restaurants by 2020.

Canada's largest full-service restaurant operator joins a growing number of companies, including Mondelez International Inc (NasdaqGS:MDLZ - News) and General Mills Inc (NYSE:GIS - News), in announcing plans to stop using eggs laid by caged hens.

The decision comes at a time when the food industry is under pressure from lobby groups to adopt animal welfare practices.

Cara said some of its brands would begin using cage-free eggs as early as this year. The company operated slightly over 1,000 restaurants as of Dec. 27, most of them in Canada.

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"Our customers increasingly want to know more about the source of the food they eat. Our decision to source only cage-free eggs is one more step in this direction," Chief Executive Bill Gregson said in a statement.

(Reporting by Manish Parashar in Bengaluru; Editing by Robin Paxton)