A pizza place practicing progressive environmentalism
April 27th, 2007 by Eric
We’ve asked you to do a lot of things for the environment: use compact fluorescent light bulbs, drive hybrid cars, purchase “green” energy, buy local organic food, recycle, use “green” credit cards. Heck, we even suggested that you change your bank for the environment. But this one tops them all: buy pizza.
That’s if you live in Florida. More specifically, if you live in or visit Deerfield Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton, or Coral Springs. These are the current locations of Pizza Fusion, an all-organic, earth friendly pizza place, and model small business in southern Florida. Here’s their goal, in their own words:
Pizza Fusion was founded in the best interest of the environment and the individual. By serving healthy, organic food with a commitment to the preservation of our fragile ecosystem, we hope to set an example for others to follow.
Here are some of the ways Pizza Fusion is “saving the Earth, one pizza at a time”:
- Their delivery vehicles are all hybrid cars. The Toyota Prius, to be exact.
- They purchase wind energy certificates to offset 100% of their energy use and have plans to soon be completely powered by solar energy.
- Their ingredients are all 100% organic, mostly grown within 60 miles of the restaurants, saving on fuel to get them there.
- All of their menus, napkins, and plates are printed on recycled paper.
- As a bonus they split energy savings with their employees resulting in 20% less energy used.
- Those employees are decked out in 100% organic cotton uniforms.
- They even use Sustainable Websites to host their website, which uses 100% wind energy for its web hosting
- For the kids, they host free classes every Saturday to teach them about increasingly popular organic food and other things they can do for the environment.
Not progressive enough? Chew on this organic info. They also offer health insurance to all employees working more than 20 hours a week and even have deals for their employees at local fitness centers. It’s a healthy place to eat and work.
These progressive practices don’t seem to be holding them down financially either. For you entrepreneurs, they are currently offering franchise opportunities, with plans to expand across the country. So if you’re looking to start a business… Even if you’re not, we could all stand to live our lives and run our businesses a little more like Pizza Fusion.
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