"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will we find money cannot be eaten."

-Cree Indian Prophecy
Owner Amy McNutt with Husband and Executive Chef James M. Johnston and Spiral's very first and longest standing Employee Cri.
About Spiral Diner & Bakery

Spiral Diner & Bakery is owned and operated by Amy McNutt. A few years back, while making a short film about factory-farmed cows in California, Amy learned about the heartless practices of the dairy and egg industries. Overnight this experience turned the long time vegetarian into a vegan. Amy began to research and study the plight of animals, soon extending her studies to environmentalism as well. She began to take part in educational activism and tried her best to keep an open dialogue with people about Veganism and its relation to the environment. In doing this she discovered that most people, once they have a total understanding of Veganism, agree it's a necessary step for survival on this planet. However, they have difficulty changing their lifestyles for lack of access to information and most importantly, good vegan food.   So, in an attempt to provide delicious cruelty-free and organic food to those who need it Amy moved back home to Texas and opened the first of what will surely be many diners. Spiral Diner & Bakery (the name inspired by lyrics of the song “Lateralus”) hopes to advance the "spiraling out" of compassion and awareness that is already in progress.
 
Mission
Spiral Diner & Bakery is a 100% vegan and mostly organic restaurant in the middle of “Cowtown” (Ft. Worth). In addition to always serving delicious vegan meals that appeal to both herbivores and carnivores, Spiral Diner pledges to:
  • Use only cruelty-free and environmentally friendly biodegradable cleaning products

  • Only purchase recycled and un-bleached paper products (with the highest post-consumer content available)

  • Always buy Certified Organic ingredients whenever possible with conventional only as a last resort

  • Use environmentally friendly, biodegradable take-away containers and disposable cutlery (we also encourage our customers to bring their own reusable containers with them to help us reduce packaging waste)

  • Recycle 100% of all the accepted materials that come through our kitchen

  • Donate a portion of profit to local grassroots organizations that are fighting for human, animal, and environmental causes

  • Reduce waste by purchasing in bulk as much as possible and donating excess food to local food banks and shelters

  • Never compromise on the above principles

A word on our prices:

Spiral Diner's prices are set as low as they can possibly go. Our goal is not to make tons of profit; it is to provide the community with tasty vegan food at a reasonable cost. Our goal is also to pay everyone working at Spiral a decent wage. We will never charge more than we absolutely have to in order to pay the bills.

So when you eat at Spiral you know you are getting high quality food from happy employees.

Additionally, we will continually to adjust our prices to reflect food costs. As organic ingredients go down in price we adjust our menu prices accordingly. The more in demand organics become, the lower the price.
Read the “Little Pencil Story”, one of Amy’s main inspirations.
Food for Thought

Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? … It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.

--Plutarch (Greek philosopher and moralist)
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