Where Everyone Gets a Slice of the Pie

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Bay Curious listener Columbia Shafer was walking along Grand Ave in Oakland one day, when she noticed a new Zachary's pizza shop opening. "They were putting new paint on the doors and it said 100% employee owned," she says. "It seems like a really high percentage of pizza places [in the East Bay] were cooperatives and employee owned." She wants to know ... why pizza? In this episode we dive into local pizza co-op history. We'll also learn how these businesses work. Additional Resources Why Are So Many East Bay Pizza Shops Cooperatively Owned? Reported by Kyana Moghadam. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Asal Ehsanipour and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey and Vinnee Tong.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Can you hear that?
0:07.0	If you're one of those people who has stepped up your baking while sheltering in place,
0:14.1	maybe experimenting with sour dough starter, you will know what it is.
0:20.3	It's the sound of working with fresh dough.
0:23.0	For listener Columbia Schaefer, her fascination with a certain kind of dough,
0:28.0	pizza dough, prompted her to give us a call back in January.
0:31.0	So I was wondering about all of the cooperative and employee-owned
0:36.0	pizza places that I see in the Bay Area. Columbia was walking on Grand Avenue in Oakland one day,
0:41.7	when she noticed a new Zachary's pizza shop was opening.
0:45.0	They were, you know, putting all the new paint on the doors and it said 100% employee owned.
0:50.0	And I was like, huh, Zachary's employee owned or as Mende's employee owned, Gee's Board, probably the most
0:56.3	famous employee owned.
0:58.0	It just seems like a really high percentage of all the pizza places like I eat at where, you you know cooperatives and employee owned.
1:04.4	That got her thinking.
1:06.4	Why pizza places are cooperative and employee owned when other businesses aren't you
1:11.6	know I don't see sandwich shops or
1:13.1	ramen shops or things like that.
1:15.0	Today we're tossing up a story about how this co-op pizza phenomenon began.
1:19.6	Plus we'll get a schooling on how these businesses work.
1:22.8	I'm Olivia Allen Price.
1:24.0	This is Bay Curious.
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