White Dog Cafe
Industry: Food service
Headquarters: Philadelphia, PA
Founder: Judy Wicks
Founded: 1983
Markets: Philadelphia, PA
Interviewed: Judy Wicks, Founder
The White Dog Cafe is located in three adjacent Victorian brownstones in the University City section of Philadelphia. Known for its unusual blend of award-winning cuisine and social activism, the cafe presents numerous events throughout the year which please palates while raising consciousness. The cafe’s cuisine is contemporary American and incorporates many other culinary influences from Native American to Southeast Asian. It emphasizes high quality, farm fresh ingredients, purchased from local sustainable farmers whenever possible. The menu balances the familiar with the new, presenting dishes with flair, originality, and outstanding flavor and freshness. The White Dog Cafe’s support of sustainable agriculture is driven by both taste and food politics. Seasonal, local, and organically grown ingredients taste better. Humane and sustainable agriculture produces safe, wholesome food in a manner that is ecologically sound, economically viable, equitable, humane, and provides a healthy and safe environment for the present and future.
At White Dog Cafe they use good food lure customers into social activism. The firm’s goal is to be in service in four areas: serving customers, serving community, serving each other as fellow employees, and serving nature. Through extensive programming and a newsletter, White Dog Cafe gets its loyal customers involved in its many social action issues. The topics in which the cafe is engaged include: economic justice and fair trade, environmental sustainability, socially responsible business, criminal justice reform, peace and nonviolence, children, seniors, diversity, and social change through the arts.
White Dog Café
3420 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
www.whitedog.com
Social Action: http://www.whitedog.com/action.html
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