07.01.08
The founder of an organic quick-service restaurant has entered into a $65 million deal with green building developer 1 Smart Duck Management Group to build 182 restaurants using the 1 Odd Duck iBuilding concept, saying it is only logical to move forward with his health food franchise plans using earth-friendly facilities.
“I want healthy buildings for the planet,” says James M. Sleighter, president of Tampa, Florida–based Health Food Hut, Inc. “What’s the sense of starting a healthy quick-serve chain if your restaurants are polluting the earth?”
Three Health Food Huts are slated to open before 2009.
“There will be reverse osmosis water systems so that water from the tap will be purer than spring water,” he says. “And all the landscaping will be edible. It will be a pretty unique concept. From the time you step on to the property, it’s total health for the body and total health for the planet.”
…For breakfast, that menu includes omelets with organic eggs and with fewer yolks, as well as bison, venison, or elk sausages. Health Food Hut will also add bison bacon and a super coffee with 60 vitamins and minerals that Sleighter says will not affect the taste.
Lunch and dinner menus offer quarter-pound burgers with ground chicken, turkey, grass-fed beef, bison, venison, elk, emu, ostrich, and lamb. Other sandwich offerings include rainbow trout, mahi mahi, and cod, while several salad plates can be had, including wild American shrimp and avocado, served over organic mixed greens, and the Just Plain Healthy salad with romaine, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, broccoli, and sunflower seeds.
— Mark DeSorbo, QSR Magazine, 5/08
“I want healthy buildings for the planet,” says James M. Sleighter, president of Tampa, Florida–based Health Food Hut, Inc. “What’s the sense of starting a healthy quick-serve chain if your restaurants are polluting the earth?”
Three Health Food Huts are slated to open before 2009.
“There will be reverse osmosis water systems so that water from the tap will be purer than spring water,” he says. “And all the landscaping will be edible. It will be a pretty unique concept. From the time you step on to the property, it’s total health for the body and total health for the planet.”
…For breakfast, that menu includes omelets with organic eggs and with fewer yolks, as well as bison, venison, or elk sausages. Health Food Hut will also add bison bacon and a super coffee with 60 vitamins and minerals that Sleighter says will not affect the taste.
Lunch and dinner menus offer quarter-pound burgers with ground chicken, turkey, grass-fed beef, bison, venison, elk, emu, ostrich, and lamb. Other sandwich offerings include rainbow trout, mahi mahi, and cod, while several salad plates can be had, including wild American shrimp and avocado, served over organic mixed greens, and the Just Plain Healthy salad with romaine, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, broccoli, and sunflower seeds.
— Mark DeSorbo, QSR Magazine, 5/08