Burgerville is a gourmet fast food chain in the Pacific Northwest that is committed to Fresh, Local, Sustainable practices. The restaurant opened for business in the 1960s and now has 39 restaurants in Oregon and Washington. Although Burgerville certainly isn't the only fast food joint to source locally and act sustainably, it's one of the biggest chains that have gone that direction.
The chain uses local and sustainable ingredients in its food and is now taking its commitment a step further with new seasonal food combinations. Each menu item highlights a single in-season ingredient sourced from local farms committed to sustainable practices.
In addition to looking for partners that subscribe to sustainable practices, Bugerville has other sustainable initiatives such as:
- Corporate-wide purchase of wind power credits
- Recycling of used cooking oil into biodiesel
- Composting and recycling programs
All sustainable practices are based around the belief, and the experience, that it is good business to adopt practices that are good for the local community and environment.
Source: Bugerville
Great example Kerry of what can be done!
I would love to eat at this place. We should start a petition to get them here.
Do you know of anyone doing fast food / local + sustainable in the Twin Cities??
Posted by: robert koski | June 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM
I totally agree Bob. Hopefully they have their social media strategy in place and are reading to this thread. I too think Minnesota would be a great place for them to expand their franchise.
Posted by: Kerry | June 10, 2009 at 08:21 PM
Very cool. I too wish more chains would adopt sustainable practices. I agree that MN would be a great place to expand the Burgerville chain...I think a lot of people in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro have similar mindsets as those in the Pacific Northwest.
Posted by: Andrew Block | June 16, 2009 at 09:02 PM