WHAT

STARS® is active in its R&D program with University of Leeds. Supported by Innovate UK, the team here in the UK are developing a world class plant-based burger.

STARS® is forming strategic partnerships for R&D and product development in Canada with Griffth Foods, Lovingly Made Ingredients and University of Guelph.

STARS® will be opening its 1st location in Byron Bay, Australia in summer 2024, STARS® is creating a plant-based burger brand for the skaters, surfers, boarders and bikers. Patagonia meets Red Bull, for food. STARS® will be building a community of ambassadors within the sports we are focused on, with our STARS® burgers at events, community fund raisers and indeed our location in Byron Bay.

GOALS

* A community of like minded individuals, collaborating to create organisations such as STARS®.

* A tribe of seekers, dreamers, doers and creators to help solve some of our natural world’s biggest challenges, namely meat consumption, environmental degradation and creation of protected marine reserves.

* To shift consumption patterns for our largest consumed products, predominantly in the food industry and provide the marketplace with better more attractive options.

* To create a community, a tribe and a lifestyle around a brand that people can identify with STARS®.

 
Adam Thorpe’s passion is driven in terms of food is producing better, more attractive, healthier and more inspiring options which replace harmful mainstream items of consumption such as beef burgers.  Whilst Adam is vegan the mission for STARS® is to appeal to everyone, appealing to the surf, skate, bike and board crowds!  STARS® is more than a plant-based fast food company, it’s a movement, a culture, a way of standing up for what is right and our future on this planet and the species we share it with.  

Adam Thorpe took experience from two decades in real estate property development to co-found ARKS®.

Adam is focused on building STARS® over the next 20 years with support of Government partnerships, sovereign wealth funds and an acute understanding of the physical fast casual restaurant, master licence structures. Ultimately Adam will create the Earth Fund, something he likens to a capital investment fund for nature, with the intellect and capital being used for protecting natural habitats, reducing species decimation and allowing our natural planet to flourish alongside our continued enjoyment as one of many species that inhabit Earth.

After 20 years in property development Adam Thorpe is now using his skills and expertise to build businesses and organisations such as STARS® which can create a shift in our behaviour, driving awareness and provide meaningful opportunities for talented people to join forces and ultimately to build movements and communities based around values and beliefs for a better world.