The usual objection to switching a counter to greener service ware is not price. It is that the greener version tends to be the flimsier version, and a shop serving hard-frozen product has already learned what happens to a flimsy spoon.
The two properties are separate
Green eco-friendly dessert spoons are supplied in a heavy-duty weight, reinforced through the handle for firm, hard-frozen ice cream, and they sit inside the eco-friendly range for shops moving away from standard plastic service ware.
That combination is the point. Material choice and structural weight are two different decisions, and shops assume they have to trade one for the other because the cheap versions of greener products usually do force that trade. This one does not.
Why the weight still matters
Nothing about changing the material changes the physics. A dessert spoon fails at the neck, where the handle meets the bowl, and it fails when someone pushes it into product straight out of a deep freeze.
If that was a problem for you before, it is a problem for you after, and the reasoning is unchanged from why heavy duty ice cream spoons exist. A greener spoon that snaps has not improved anything. It has replaced one item in the bin with a different item in the bin, plus an apology.
Where it fits in a full switch
Shops that convert a counter usually do it piece by piece, and the serving spoon is often the last thing to change because it is the item most likely to fail visibly in front of a customer.
Having a heavy-duty option inside the eco range removes that blocker. You can convert cups, containers and lids and finish with the spoon rather than leaving a plastic spoon sitting at the end of an otherwise complete switch. That is the same completeness argument we made about kraft in kraft cups and the bleach question, and the same caution applies: check what the material actually claims rather than assuming the color told you.
Color is not the whole message
Green reads as environmental, and there is a purple version if you would rather the spoon carried your own color rather than a signal. Both are the same weight at the same case price, so this is purely a presentation choice.
There is an argument for purple, oddly. A green spoon announces the material, which invites a question about what exactly it is made of and where it goes afterwards. If you cannot answer that question confidently, the quieter color saves you a conversation you would rather not have during a rush.
Where not to use them
The sampling station, for the same reason as every other heavy-duty spoon. A sample takes one bite off the top of a scoop and puts no force on anything, so the reinforced weight is spent on nothing. Wood is the more sensible material there, as covered in wooden vs plastic tasting spoons.
Both eco heavy-duty colors sit with the rest of the weights in the spoons and straws range.