The other day I was thinking what if we had a perfectly green fast food chain in America. What would it look like? You’d need…

• A sustainable building – powered by alternative energy, built green, and in an easily accessible area (off course most fast food is in an easily accessible area).
• All organic menu for food and drinks. No toxins, no chemicals, etc.
• Biodegradable and or recycled dishes, menus, paper products, and so on, or reusable dishes (for customers who want to bring dishes back after use to refill or what not) plus a design that allowed for less use of these items.
• Maybe you’d have a drive through, but offer discounts to customers who don’t use it. All that idling – ick.
• Food that’s fast and affordable and tastes good – although good taste is relative I guess. I think McDonald’s food tastes like crap, but millions of people love it.
• Eco-company policies – recycling program, paper free offices, organic tees, etc.

It would be a lot of work to create a perfect green fast food restaurant. One of my friends told me that he thinks a green fast food restaurant would have to be careful because the food would need to taste good. I told him that I think that’s a common misconception about organic food – just because it’s organic doesn’t mean it tastes worse. I think people place organic and “healthy” together and while I do think organic is healthier in the long run, it’s not like you should be eating 10 organic hamburgers a week or organic pizza and ice cream each day. That’s just as unhealthy as eating conventional junk food.

But for the times people do eat junk food wouldn’t it be better to have an organic and green choice? At least it would be a little more sustainable than traditional not-eco fast food on every corner. PLUS maybe you could mix in some healthier fare and get some people off this train wreak of an obesity issue we’ve got going on in America.

Actually there are a few fast food places (very small chains or one hit places) who have some decent models going on and soon we’ll look at some of these places and see how they might be better than traditional fast food.

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