Capitol Hill’s Central Co-op celebrated its 39th birthday on Monday with a little party on Broadway. There wasn’t any cake. But there was a lot of pie.

The cooperative was on the street in front of Seattle Central to share birthday pie — edible pie charts, to be exact — to help illustrate its place in the community and the economy:

The edible “pie charts” represent the result of an economic impact report conducted by Civic Economics, a financial analysis agency, showing the cooperative returns more than 52 percent of its revenue back to the local economy. Central Co-op first opened its doors on October 16, 1978. Its guiding principles including concern for community have been an important part of the organization’s decision-making process for the past 39 years.

“We are proud to be leaders in our community when it comes to making an impact on the lives of our workers and shoppers. We feel very fortunate to have been able to be so responsive to our members’ needs over the last 39 years,” Central Co-op CEO Garland McQueen said in an announcement of the pop-up. “We look forward to continuing this work for another 40 years and beyond.”

The public relations push and free pie comes as the co-op moves forward from its decision to drop out of bidding for the anchor tenant spot in the Capitol Hill Station development and wrinkles in its takeover of a cooperative in Tacoma. Meanwhile, the grocery market is busy giving its E Madison home a makeover.