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Philadelphia 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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Thank you rug. Beautiful!
To the customers of Philadelphia Pizza.You are awesome!
and found it was unrewarding.
Good for him. 
Will have to stop in and add to the wall. 
