The Cheese Board Pizza: My Answer To Papa John's. Time for our own CHICK-FIL-A moment!

[TrollBuster9090]

I'm looking at YOU, Wisconsin!

Fed up with plutocratic-class executives screwing their workers over, lowering their wages, reducing their hours, and increasing their prices (AND profit margins), while being able to blame it all on "Obamacare?"


Maybe it's time for the left to have our own CHIC-FIL-A MOMENT?

Check this out: WORKER-OWNED PIZZA

http://cheeseboardcollective.coop/pizza

That's right, a pizza place owned by the workers. You people in BERKELEY should frequent this place, and boycott Papa John's.


DO YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER CO-OP OWNED PIZZA PLACES???
PLEASE POST THEIR LOCATIONS IN THE COMMENTS THREAD!

Ever heard of 'FAIRTRADE COFFEE?' I see people buying it every day in an effort to keep workers in Africa from being exploited by the coffee companies. Well, there's an equal amount of exploitation going on here. Why not put your stomach where your ideology is, and frequent cooperatively owned pizza places.

Better yet, why doesn't one of the higher profile worker's unions start up a national franchise? They have the financial resources to do it (start up money from union dues).

Best place to start? THE HOME OF AMERICAN CHEESE! Wisconsin!

How about encouraging the SEIU (http://www.seiu.org/) to start up a few pizza parlors in the urban centers of Wisconsin? Start up money from union dues. Hire union members, pay them decent wages, give them HC and retirement benefits....and encourage the other union members not to buy pizza from any other franchise?

[tosh]

1. Fairtrade coffee...

http://www.cafecampesino.com/

[cally]

2. best pizza around---also spin offs are Arizmendi Bakeries and Pizza

The Cheese Board Collective began decades ago and was a gourmet cheese shop. It's close to Alice Waters restaurant, Chez Panisse. The pizza part is a separate collective and spun off from the original collective. I don't live in Berkeley, but I go there when I visit Berkeley.

[TrollBuster9090]

3. Thanks for the info!

I've never been there, but I just did a quick Google search for coop owned pizza places. I'm hoping we'll be able to find some more!

[htuttle]

4. Anyone interested in worker owned coops? Here are a few links to get you started

Learn about Worker Coops
http://www.go.coop/

Interested in starting a coop in the US?
http://usworker.coop/

Want to do business with a coop?
http://www.go.coop/find

(I've been working at a worker owned and operated cooperative for 20 years.)

[SDjack]

5. Make a better Papa John's pizza at home. Here's how.

Have delivered a PJ or any other fast food pizza to your home. It will arrive in a cardboard box.
Open and removed extraneous stuff, like sauce pack, seasoning package, etc.
Close the cardboard box with the pizza inside.
Place the cardboard box w/pizza in a preheated 400 deg-F convection oven for 10 minutes; remove early if you smell smoke.
Remove from the oven, take the pizza out and toss it into your dog's dish.
Season and eat the cardboard box. It tastes better than the pizza.