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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhiladelphia Pizza Lovers Pay It Forward One Slice At A Time
The lunchtime rush at Rosa's Fresh Pizza in Center City Philadelphia where customers pay extra money to buy slices for the homeless. (Elizabeth Fiedler/WHYY)
January 14, 2015 3:53 PM ET
Elizabeth Fiedler
Some pizza restaurants decorate the walls with signed photos of minor local celebrities who once stopped by for a slice.
At Rosa's Fresh Pizza in Philadelphia the shop is adorned with post-it notes and letters. The messages are from customers who gave $1 so homeless members in the community could get a slice, which cost $1.
"The homeless, they come in and say, 'I hear you give out free pizza to homeless people,' " owner Mason Wartman tells The Salt.
The pay-it-forward pizza program started about a year ago, Wartman says, when one paying customer asked if he could buy a slice for a homeless person. "I said 'Sure.' I took his dollar and ran out and got some post-it notes and put one up to signify that a slice was purchased," he recalls.
Messages adorn the walls of a Philadelphia pizza shop where customers pay an extra $1 to feed a person who is homeless. (Courtesy of Mason Wartman)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/14/377033772/philadelphia-pizza-lovers-pay-it-forward-one-slice-at-a-time
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Philadelphia Pizza Lovers Pay It Forward One Slice At A Time (Original Post)
rug
Jan 2015
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Beringia
(4,316 posts)1. great idea
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)2. I love this!
Thank you rug. Beautiful!
To the customers of Philadelphia Pizza.You are awesome!
mythology
(9,527 posts)3. Sometimes our species doesn't suck
This is one of those times.
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)4. The owner of Rosa's used to work on Wall Street...
and found it was unrewarding.
Good for him.
MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)5. Righteous!
"Raising the spirit of peace and love" - John Lennon
ReRe
(10,597 posts)6. Ellen DeGeneres...
... had him on her show yesterday. I love pay-it-forward programs in eateries. I wish more places like pizza parlors, doughnut shops, etc would participate.
Ramses
(721 posts)7. Very excellent
Love hearing good stuff like this.
Recommended your post
AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)8. Headed to Philly this summer
Will have to stop in and add to the wall.
madokie
(51,076 posts)9. Our world could be so much better for everyone to live in
this is a perfect example of that.
Thanks
a kennedy
(29,706 posts)10. May-be the idiots in this video should read this thread and follow the example of others.....