Many locations offer delivery service, and those that do not deliver have a pick-up service available instead. The Mellow Mushroom franchise is a private franchise and was founded in With over locations in the United States, the Mellow Mushroom franchise continues to expand every year. In keeping with their funky theme, most Mellow Mushroom locations are decorated with tie-dye colors and mushroom imagery. This is definitely more than your average pizza joint! Do you have what it takes to join the Mellow Mushroom franchise team?
Mellow Mushroom creates its pizza crust with Appalachian spring water and plenty of garlic, to create a crust that's thicker than New York City-style pizza, thinner than Chicago deep dish, slightly chewy and full of flavor. The Appalachian spring water is shipped out to all of the restaurant locations, no matter where they are, it's so vital to the crust-making process. Other dough ingredients include high-protein, un-bromated, unbleached wheat flour, but no refined white sugar.
After all the ingredients are blended, the dough is hand-tossed and stone-baked. The result? Southern-style pizza. Mellow Mushroom started out with its humanoid, yellow, totally stoned mushroom character, Mel O. Mushroom, but, over the years, the restaurant has expanded its list of characters to include a range of humanoid-like mushrooms, animals, and mythical creatures, all of which live on the Mellow Mushroom Mothership, reports the brand.
The characters have appeared on Mellow Mushroom merchandise, on marketing materials, and more, and range from a pretzel-zapping wizard to a bespectacled dragon named Hummus to Esperanza the Fairy. There's also the Harshinator, who "harshes your mellow," and Cappy the Elf, who sports a mushroom-cap hat. Described as "not your average food trailer," the Mellow Mushroom Bake Bus is exactly that — more of a colorful hippie van meets pizzeria on wheels than any food truck.
Serving Mellow Mushroom's favorite menu items, as well as, on occasion, music, the Bake Bus isn't a feature at every single Mellow Mushroom location, so you're lucky if you spot one. The Bake Bus shows up at special events, such as new restaurant openings to drum up excitement and business, but also at sporting events, festivals, concerts, breweries, etcetera. In one instance, according to Pizza Today , the Bake Bus even showed up at a wedding and celebrated a bride and groom who'd frequented their local Mellow Mushroom throughout their love story.
If you want to get the Bake Bus for your own wedding, though, you'll need to call headquarters, like this bride did. The Bake Bus seems to come and go at corporate's whim and isn't available for just any, ordinary catering job.
Do you ever think about what happens to your pizza box after you toss it into the trash or recycling bin? If you tossed it in the former, you probably think you did your part in creating a cleaner planet, but, in actuality, according to Stanford University , pizza boxes can't be recycled. The grease and cheese soil the cardboard, resulting in paper that can't be used a second time. So when the recycling team finds a pizza box in your bin, they likely are tossing it into the trash.
From there, a pizza box will take at least 90 days to degrade in the landfill, and with three billion pizza boxes tossed each year, that's a lot of trash. Luckily, Mellow Mushroom is thinking green with its pizza boxes. The soy ink printing on the box is even environmentally friendly, too.
It all adds up to what Mellow Mushroom calls the greenest pizza box in the country. Many patrons visit Mellow Mushroom for their most popular item, mushrooms, as the establishment offers this ingredient on pizza, hoagies, calzones, and burgers. You can build your own pizza in sizes of:. The establishment also lets you choose your cheese and toppings from more than 40 different choices.
The stone-baked pizza slices offer the following healthy ingredients, although keep in mind that most choices remain high in sodium:. Most Nutritious Option. The gluten-free slice with veggies has calories, 5 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 17 g carbohydrates, 5 g protein, and mg sodium. If your taste prefers a gluten crust, a Veg Out Pizza Small Slice with a regular crust has calories and 15 grams of total fat.
Least Nutritious Option. Buffalo Chicken Large Slice. The Buffalo Chicken Large Slice contains calories, 34 g fat, 9 g saturated fat, 48 g carbohydrates, 28 g protein, and 1, mg sodium. You should stick to slices with vegetable toppings, or better yet, building your own pizza allows you to completely control the calories and fat content. Like pizza crust? Rather than pizza slices, you can order a hearty pizza pocket.
The calzones come in the following five flavors in order of healthiest to least nutritious :. You can order vegan cheese to save on calories. The Cheese Calzone has 1, calories, 41 g fat, 25 g saturated fat, g carbohydrates, 58 g protein, and 2, mg sodium. All calzone options are high in calories even this most nutritious option and you could potentially share one to halve the calories and fat.
The Steak and Cheese calzone has 1, calories, 50 g fat, 28 g saturated fat, g carbohydrate, 82 g protein, and 2, mg sodium. The hoagies at Mellow Mushroom come stuffed with vegetables, meats, specialty ingredients, and cheeses.
Certain hoagies come vegan and are made with either tempeh or tofu for a plant-based protein. Mellow Mushroom also offers a vegetable-only hoagie with avocado.
Sandwiches and wraps are also available, such as the Chicken Caesar Wrap, California Club, and the Mellow Chicken Salad a salad made with curry mayo and served on multigrain bread. You should order a half sandwich, or order a whole and save the other half for another meal.
The Avocado Hoagie Half Sandwich has calories, 25 g fat, 6 g saturated fat, 48 g carbohydrates, 13 g protein, and mg sodium. Mushroom Club Hoagie - Whole. The Mushroom Club Hoagie contains 1, calories, 77 g fat, 24 g saturated fat, carbohydrates, 93 g protein, and 3, mg sodium.
The ingredients include several types of fatty proteins, such as Applewood smoked bacon, mayonnaise, and provolone. If you must have this hoagie, immediately cut it in half and wrap that portion up for another meal.
The BYOB allows you to customize your burger with two additional toppings after the traditional lettuce, tomato, pickle, and onions that already come with the burger. Skipping the extra toppings will keep your calorie count down to calories. This burger and four toppings has calories, 48 g fat, 16 g saturated fat, g carbohydrates, 44 g protein, and 1, mg sodium. Mellow Mushrooms allows you to order two additional ingredients of your choice:.
Our philosophy is to elevate the dining experience with a higher order of pizza. Mellow out…. The idea back then was the same as it is now, to make the most delicious, craveable pizza on the planet. For over 40 years, Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers has been serving up fresh, stone-baked pizzas to order in an eclectic, art-filled, and family-friendly environment. Each Mellow is locally owned and operated and provides a unique feel focused around great customer service and high-quality food.
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