Earn Free Food & Drink with the New Bread Market Cafe Rewards Card
Toss Salads, Coffee & Burritos all earn reward points for free food at the Bread Market Café. Stop in to the café to get your free card. Click here for all the details and to track your points.
City Chow Cafes are proud to introduce Stonyfield Farm Organic Milk with only all natural and organic ingredients
City Chow Cafes are proud to introduce Stonyfield Farm Organic Milk with only all natural and organic ingredients—never any preservatives or artificial flavors, colors, and sweeteners like other brands. And all of our organic ingredients are produced without the use of antibiotics, artificial growth hormones, chemical fertilizers, and toxic and persistent pesticides.
City Chow Cafés Certified By Green Restaurant Association
June 13, 2008
The Green Restaurant Association (GRA), a national non-profit organization, provides services in research, consulting, education, marketing and community organizing. The GRA utilizes a collaborative strategy that involves restaurants, manufacturers, vendors, grassroots organizations, government, media, and restaurant customers. The GRA's model provides a convenient way for all sectors of the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the U.S. economy, to become more environmentally sustainable.
What we've done:
Over the last 5 months we have been working with The Green Restaurant Association to allow the City Chow Cafes to become Certified Green Restaurants. We're happy to report that we were certified on Friday, June 13.
In order for us to be a certified Green restaurant we must change 4 of our practices to 'green alternatives'. Each year, to remain certified, we must commit to 4 more.
Here's what we've done so far, which improve the environment while maintaining the same quality our customers have grown accustomed to.
- We put low-flow Faucet Aerators on our dish and hand sinks. We reduced the flow of water and thus save water when we wash our dishes, utensils and containers and hands. The normal flow of water is 5-6 gallons per minute for the dish sink. The low Flow Aerators drop this number to 1.5 gallons per minute. The normal flow of water for Hand sinks is 5-6 gallons, the Aerators dropped it to a 1/2 gallon per minute.
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We switched our Napkins to 100% recycled content. With every 500 cases used we will save:
- 20.30 cubic years of landfill space
- 47,250 gallons of water
- 27,625 kilowatts of energy
- 405 pounds of air pollutants
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We introduced products that are manufactured with Corn instead of Plastic. The Corn products are used for our Parfait Cups. This product is bio-degradable.
- We have introduced recycling. We sort out paper, glass and trash.
Campers from the Fresh Air Fund participate in job shadowing at Digby’s Cafe in midtown Manhattan.
The Blue Radish Group is helping to support the fight against breast cancer.
Otis Spunkmeyer Joins the Fight to Save Lives
Otis Spunkmeyer, Inc. is donating a minimum of $50,000 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation to help save lives by increasing awareness and providing mammograms to those in need.
The Pink Cookie Shows Your Support
Join in the fight by buying The Pink Cookie during the promotion period.
BRG is Going Green!
At all Blue Radish Group cafés, we're gradually adding healthy and organic food to our menu because we believe that whole and less processed food is better for you and tastes better. As USDA organic products become more affordable and readily available, we will happily make them part of our menu. Two examples of this are the addition of USDA organic, coffee and USDA organic salad dressing, both of which represent a small part of our overall step toward Green!
City Harvest
Now you can help, too. Drop some change into marked boxes at the check-out registers in all Blue Radish Group cafes. The money collected in these change boxes will be used to feed New York's hungry. More about City Harvest here.
Fresh Air Fund
We also proudly support the Fresh Air Fund and their campers. The Blue Radish Group recently participated in their popular Career Workshop Saturday.
