Galactic Pizza — Down To Earth Fast Food
by Warren McLaren, Sydney on 09.23.05
On seeing our recent post about the MM 1.0 electric ‘car’, Tipster Becca thought it might be the same vehicle now skooting about, delivering pizza in Minneapolis. Close, but not quite. Nevermind, the story of Galactic Pizza is worthy of its own post. Their restaurant is powered through an energy utility with wind turbines. The same renewable power charges their small fleet of electric delivery bike and cars. They have a pizza called the “CSA”, ‘coz they're a member of the local Community Supported Agriculture farmers network and this pizza includes whatever is in season and delivered that week. Another selection is “the Second Harvest Heartland pizza, where $1 is donated to this hunger relief organization every time the pizza is ordered.” The mozzarella cheese ...
... topping comes from moo cows untreated with Bovine Growth Hormones (rBGH) and they offer organic ingredients such as basil, red onion, capsicum, roma tomatoes, button mushrooms, for example. You can savour home-made hemp pesto on your pasta, a salad with hemp dressing, or satisfy that sweet tooth with chocolate hemp brownies. Oh yeh, the menu is on hemp paper too. Any food waste goes to a pig farm, while 5% of after-tax profits head off to charities selected by the staff. There’s more, but we don’t want to Supersize you, with too much info. Although they seem to do some seriously green stuff, the whole Galactic Pizza enterprise seems deeply infused with a light heart. Beam up a review here or teleport directly to ::Galactic Pizza
don't forget, they wear tights and capes when they deliver your pizza, which by the way is delicious.
LOL, the capes are great. And the fact that a lot of them seem half baked is also good.
Their pizza is excellent, and we have a *LOT* of choices in this part of minneapolis.
I live in Minneapolis and have seen the those electric cars out and about...I never knew they came from Galactic Pizza. Very cool. I know where our next pizza is coming from!
Great place, great pizza.
Gotta point out, though, that their electric vehicle fleet has been pretty unreliable.
Those cars come from a small company in Eugene, Oregon. http://www.nevco-ev.com/
My friend developed a sleeker redesign of the car. I'll have to find out if they're going to build it.
If you think this is interesting, check out Pizza Fusion. Based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this new organic pizza franchise is ‘Saving the Earth, One Pizza at a Time’.
Here are some examples of their environmental efforts:
- Delivering their food in company owned hybrid vehicles
- Powering their stores, corporate office and website 100% with renewable wind energy
- Recycling and giving customers discounts for bringing back their pizza boxes to recycle them
- Using only eco-friendly cleaners to sanitize all their stores
- Using 100% post consumer recycled paper in all their collateral
- Printing their collateral with soy inks
- Designing and constructing their stores with renewable, reusable, and recycled products according to the LEED construction rating system.
- Serving their food in plastic substance like containers that are made 100% from corn starch and are designed to decompose in landfills in 30 days
- Providing their employees only with eco-apparel made from 100% organic cotton
- Host a free organics for kids class every third Thursday of the month that educates children on the importance of eating organic and recycling
- Donate money to environmental causes in and around our communities