Sustainability
"If we don’t live a sustainable life we don’t have a tomorrow"
The Best Ingredients
All our ingredients are locally-sourced or homegrown, organic, and always nitrate-free to make the best food that's good for you and the planet.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
We are dedicated to creating a business that runs on recycled or compostable supplies and products, minimizing our waste as much as possible.
Renewable Energy
We’re fossil fuel-free, committed to using high-efficiency products and advocating to the community to reduce their energy output.
What We Do
"We want to offer people real food, like the food I grew up on in my home village, and support other businesses who do the same."
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At The Rising Loafer, We:
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Source our food from local farmers, or grow it ourselves!
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We grow our own herbs for tea and raspberries for salad dressing.
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We get our eggs from the community chickens.
Compost or repurpose everything!
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We donate old cooking grease to a company that converts it to fuel.
Are fossil fuel-free!
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We depend solely on natural gas and electricity to power our facility.
"Everything here is about reusing, recycling, or repurposing. When a customer doesn't finish a cup of water, is goes into a pitcher that will water the patio planters; on the tables, the sugar containers and cups come from different antique or reuse stores. We try to repurpose things, just like our tables we made out of old doors. Everything that cannot be washed or reused is compostable."
Our Community Work
Community Garden
We are responsible for caring for the chickens in Lafayette's 300-person community garden, and it's where we source our eggs!
Recognition
Bay Area Green Business
Awarded to businesses in the nine counties represented by the Association of Bay Area Governments, who implement measures to conserve energy and water, minimize waste, and prevent pollution.
