Rick Harmon

Montgomery Advertiser

How would you like some 75-cent beers with your $2.50 pizza?

Mellow Mushroom will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary today by reverting to the prices on its original 1974 menu, including Michelob, Budweiser and PBR for 75 cents, Coca-Cola products for 30 cents and small stone-baked cheese pizzas for $2.50.

Besides the Way Back Wednesday specials today, all month long Mellow Mushroom will host a contest in which customers can win a trip to Amsterdam for two. Customers will be able to pose with a backdrop of the first Mellow Mushroom location and post it to Instagram with #40YearsBaked or upload that image directly to www.40yearsbaked.com to enter.

Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers has come a long way from when it started as a single pizza shop in Atlanta during the freewheeling hippie culture of 1974. It has recently expanded to more than 170 locations in 18 states.

Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers is opening new restaurants throughout the country, including recent and upcoming launches in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Dallas, Denver, New Orleans, Orlando and Miami.

According to Mellow Mushroom, "the core of their menu is its handcrafted, stone-baked pizza made with wheat flour and Appalachian spring water-based mellow dough; tomato sauce made from vine-ripened, hand-selected tomatoes picked within hours of harvest; and part-skim aged mozzarella with no preservatives."