Bicycle Friendly Business Award to Hot Italian

My favorite pizza restaurant in Midtown Sacramento:  Hot Italian has just been awarded the "Bicycle Friendly Business Award" (Bronze level) today by the League of American Bicyclist in Washington, D.C., the first ever California restaurant to be achieved this standing.

From the Hot Italian Press Release:

The Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) program recognizes employers’ efforts to encourage a more bicycle friendly atmosphere for employees and customers. The program honors innovative bike-friendly efforts and provides technical assistance and information to help companies and organizations become even better for bicyclists. This new initiative complements the League’s Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) program, which has been recognizing cities and towns for their bicycle friendliness since 2003.

HOT ITALIAN provides bicycle parking for 32 bikes on-site, sponsors a bike club and a bike team, hosts the Savage Sprints Series, Velo & Vintage, the bicycle fashion show, and HOT ITALIAN Creative Director + Founder Andrea Lepore was co-chair of last year’s May Is Bike Month. HOT ITALIAN produced the Bicycle Film Festival in Sacramento for the first time in the international festival’s 10-year history and will be bringing it back to town from NYC this year on May 12-14, 2011 at Fremont Park.

Founded in 1880, The League of American Bicyclists mission is to promote bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. Based in Washington D.C. and representing the interests of the nation's 57 million cyclists and a current membership of 300,000 affiliated cyclists, including 25,000 individuals and 700 affiliated organizations, the League works to bring better bicycling to your community.

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We are so Proud of Hot Italian and what they had brought to our community.  Sac Cycle Chic approved!